Viewing page 149 of 161

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

13 April 1947

Dear Doris:

You would hardly recognize the place if you could drop in. We cut about half the rose bush off the corner, taking out the dead wood particularly which I regard as a fire menace, and brought the whole mass down to about the level of the piazza railing. Mr. Bryan brought out his big clippers and insisted that I should use them. I found them quite convenient. This morning we hung up most of the Spanish moss on the tulip tree & other trees in the backyard, and made it look like a section of Carolina. I also dug a trifle in the garden today. 

This afternoon we started off for Plummers I. at 3. As we came down the steep hill to Chain Bridge we met an ambulance & a police car going up the hill, and when we got down to the bridge we found another police car & quite a lot of people. We haven't heard whether anybody fell in the river. There were many people lined up along the rocks fishing, but none of those we saw going away had any visible fish. Instead of going to the island, we decided to look up the display of cherries at Kenwood that we had often heard of but never visited. We found it without great difficulty, off Wise Ave a few miles out. The whole little community is planted with cherry trees along the main street & the side streets, and they are now in full flower. We drove on to Anglers Rest and