There was a pond behind the apartment complex on Bradenton Road. Several families of ducks lived there and would often waddle through the parking lot and in front of the apartment doors. We would feed them, and that kept them coming back.

 

Barbara in the kitchen as she starts taking down decorations from the wall to pack them with the dishes in preparation for our move from Sarasota to Washington, D.C.

 

Another picture from the kitchen. Jeannine (in front of the window) and her friend Latressa studying after school. Latressa lived in an apartment on the second floor. I also knew her freom when she attended the Parent Child Care Center. She would come to our apartment and do her homework; by then, her mother would be home from work.

 

Matthew when he was one month on the sofa in the living room. The baby seat in which he is laying was a present from the other police dispatchers at Sarasota PD.