Their son Alexander Isaac Blum was born 15 November 2001. Here he is as newborn, at 2 months, and at 4 months:

and here he is at 21 months:

Ashley is from Montgomery, Alabama.

Her father, Colonel (retired) John Pierce and I were born in the Howell-Quillian hospital in Cartersville, Georgia, in March 1941.

Gus is from Mendoza, Argentina,

and Scarsdale, New York

Looking to the north from their wedding hotel, the Pentagon City Doubletree, I could see

the National Cathedral

in the distance above the nearby

Pentagon

To the NorthEast, I could see the cross

formed by the West-East line from the Lincoln Memorial through the Washington Monument to the Capitol and the South-North line from the Jefferson Memorial through the Washington Monument to the White House.