Faerie House

A magical little Faerie House with accompanying Mushroom sorceress's studio for working on magic spells. Hope Trogdor doesn't show up.

Winterthur, Delaware - April 2009

Meadowrue

Daisies and Daylilies

Alpine Tundra

We went for a short hike at the Alpine Tundra area of Rocky Mountain National Park. At 13000 ft above sea level even a short hike can leave you out of breath. September 2006.

The Blue Galoon

3 year old Olivia's preferred pronunciation of "The Blue Lagoon." Iceland 2008

Watermelon

The girls pose with a watermelon from our garden. It was delicious!

Scavenger Hunt

Emily and I follow while Olivia checks off another item from her Nature Scavenger Hunt at Garden In The Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts. September 2009, Photo by Joana.

Legion of Honor

Joana strolls Olivia past the gates to the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, California 2006.

Final Approach to SFO

Mowry Slough in the southern end of San Francisco Bay from the air. January 2006 Here's what the area looks like on Google Maps.

King (or Queen or Princess) of the Hill!

It's My Bag Baby!

Erik lets loose at our housewarming gathering, March 2008.

Freeze!

Cabbage

Broccoli

In our garden in early July.

Caged in a Beaver Catcher!

In order to catch the Ground Hog that was helping itself to our vegetable garden Olivia and I set a "Beaver Catcher" as she called it, and it worked! This critter now lives very far away from us. The previous night I caught a skunk in the trap! Luckily for me he was very cooperative and didn't spray me as I put the cage in my truck, drove him to a park and let him out.

Lattice

Deep in thought at Millenium Park in Chicago, Illinois.

Canopy of Trees Beneath a Canopy of Trees

The beginnings of a hut made from branches at Sargent Pond in New Hampshire.

Fence and Ferns

See Emily Play

Tree of Light

The sun splits a double trunked tree in Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden, Connecticut.

Alien Abducktion

Under a streetlight on a foggy winter night "The Blue Duck" (that's what Olivia used to call my old pick-up truck) looks like a scene from "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind."

Huzzah Creek

Olivia and a pony see eye to eye.

Olivia and a pony see eye to eye.

Victim of the Ice Storm

Last Summer my parents neighbor Pam offered to let us have the old swing set in her yard. Mark and I disassembled it and carried it across the road to my parents yard where we reassembled it. Olivia and Emily got one weekends worth of fun on it before a massive ice storm brought trees down on it and smashed it. I'll try to fix it this summer.

Family Outing

A family of Canada Geese go for a morning paddle on Harrisville Pond. Photo by my Dad.

That Darn Duck!

Tjörnin, the city pond in Reykjavik is home to a lot of waterfowl and Olivia wanted to feed them all! She got a little too comfortable with one big gray goose though and he bit her finger while eating out of her hand. "That darn duck bit me!" she wailed.

Early one morning late last year.

Jack Frost does his thing, outlining the edges of Kalmia, Azalea, and Rudbeckia seedheads.

Grindavik Harbor

Hera Returns

Lixus was part of a chain of Phoenician- Carthaginian settlements along the northwest coast of Africa dating back to the 7th century BC. When Carthage fell to Ancient Rome, Lixus became a Roman imperial outpost.

Supposedly the location of the mythological garden of the Hesperides, Atlas' daughters, was Hera's orchard in the far western corner of the world, where the immortality-giving golden apples grew.

Tree Goats

A goat-herd chatted with us while we watched his goats grazing in the Argan Trees by the side of the road from Tafraoute. Morocco 2000