Check out my pictures from my visit with my folks in June. If you’re a nature lover, there’s lots of animals, trees, birds and flowers. www.chowntown.com/photographs/

Amanda has a new website to showcase her photography! Her speciality is portrait work… Check it out here at Moments In Time Photo.

I’ve added old family photos!  Some of them are pretty funny/embarrassing.  Check em out here:  Old Family Photos

I started a group on Facebook called “The United Chowns of Facebook” a while ago.   Some of the members have very interesting ideas about the origin of our surname!  Check it out:

It is from the French for Cabbage, or “chou”, and is of Normand Origin.
Spellings for the name eventually morphed into “Chowne”, “Chown”, “Chan”, “Chowning”, [...]

Michael Carl Chown was born August 2nd to proud parents Noel and Carlene. He weighs in at 5 lb, 11 oz. I’m an uncle again! Mom and baby are doing well!