October 19 – My Dad’s birthday

Today, October 19, is my deceased daddy’s day of birth – James Marcus Keiter MD. I fortunately returned from living in Berlin, Germany to spend Christmas with my parents and live with them in our family home the last year of his life.

In high school and college my father was a runner in track and musician, playing the clarinet.

I attended an outdoor classical music concert with my parents in a neighboring town.

James Marcus Keiter MD retired physician – home office, delivering babies, house calls to Emergency Medicine

James and Lois with their friends, with whom they had a gourmet club, tennis and skiing vacations

Each of my parents planted and maintained a beautiful lot of trees, gardens and flowers.

What they left behind –Azalia bushes along with the 50 evergreen trees – planted on a property of only grasses.

James and his wife Lois examining the Wisteria

Historian of Wisteria

I remember him continually in many ways and am fully influenced by his loves and activities in life and respect for nature.

The many watercolor paintings he did

James Keiter’s painting of Birch Trees

James M. Keiter, MD watercolor

James Keiter painting House in Winter

Wood carvings that he did

my dad’s wood carvings – learning the craft during a course

I continue to feel appreciation, love and respect for him. Because he played clarinet and continuously loved music, I identify with Chopin and my own love of piano.

Frédéric Chopin’s tomb Cemetery – Cimetière du Père Lachaise