Family Tree

One half of the family comes from a small town in Rhine valley of Switzerland, in an area where there is lots of agricultural production. Vineyards, apple and pear trees, corn, potatoes and wheat are all part of the staples, but

Grandmothe's house at Mühlenerstrasse 13, Rebstein. 

Looking over the dorm of Rebstein from the Hübe.

Cows in the alps around the Tiger Nord Wand.

Grapes that mom, grandmother and even great grandmother tended.

of course there are cows. Not nearly as pretty as the cows in the alps but they still produce milk that is used for the appenzeller cheese. To see my grandmothers house and be around the source of all the stories my mother used to tell gives a feeling of a place of home and I realize that the family everyone else celebrates close by actually exists for us as well. It is just a little more distant.