Bonus Post: For My Father's Birthday

My father was born on July 7, 1916. He died in the year 2000, and mother died four years later.

These pictures are from one of their photo albums from before I was born. My parents had hiked up to Mary's Rock from Skyline Drive and took these photographs at the top of the mountain.

Eleanor Suiter, "Atop Mary's Rock" with John Suiter

These pictures are poignant to me because my mother later expressed a wish that her ashes be scattered from Mary's Rock. After her death, I obtained a permit to do this from Shenandoah National Park and my sister, my younger daughter and I hiked up the steep trail and scattered the ashes of mother and father from the peak.