Sons Konrad and Duncan — now grown up and living in Honolulu, Hawaii and Providence, Rhode Island, respectively.

Mom/Mum — originally English, then Australian, and finally … American — and my stepfather, Hoyt — a retired ‘Canadian’ engineer (and master woodworker) — work and play on a beautiful 80-acre horse-farm, near Marshall (Asheville) North Carolina.

My grandparents’ horse farm in one of its heydays — 1980.  Grannie Bury taught horse-this and horse-that, and was beloved by her students — though she could be very … English. The guest cottage is seen here, on the hill, in a view from their cool house (partially built from old convict bricks — each unique in shape, color and identification mark) …