Last Sunday

Last Sunday we took a field trip into family history.  In working on Mom's pictures again, getting them cropped and reorganized before burning to CD's, Larry got back into the genealogy thing.  It's been a few years and more stuff was online than before so he made some headway again.

He was able to follow my Mom's Dad's line all the way to the first of his people to hit American soil from England.  The Carrington's landed in America in 1837, lived in Princeton, N.J. for about 22 years and then came to Sacramento via the Isthmus.  They have a plot in the Historic City Cemetery in Sacramento and as there is a huge historic rose garden there too, we had to go check it out.

The rose garden has over 200 varieties of historic bushes that had been collected from all over the country, it was beautiful.  There are many other beautiful flowers and trees too.  Enjoy.

The family plot, half of which was covered by an enormous rose bush.

Me looking at the rosebush.

Larry taking notes.