1989 | San Diego
I remember that when Alex and I built this N-scale railroad, it took extra locomotive power to haul the trains around the many loops, but we had made our goal of fitting one scale mile of track onto a half-sheet of plywood.
This wasn’t his only interest – among others, astronomy was big in his six-year-old head, and here at the corners we see some of that. Finally scanning this negative, I’m struck now by his drawing (dimly, at left here) of the conjunction of the planets in our own solar system, and especially that he drew twelve planets. He has always been forward-looking; we shall see.