Friday, August 31, 2007

driving to school in am

These are a little hard to see, but if you look in the distance you can see a blanket of clouds laying on the valley/hillside. Mornings are inevitably cloudy and one frequently finds themselves blinded by driving through them. If you click on the photos and zoom in (with say windows picture viewer or whatever app, you can see a little better, even though the resolution is limited.) I took this with my phone through the windshield while driving. Don't try this at home boys and girls. Fortunately, there is limited traffic on these dirt roads. I travel about 5 miles from my front door before I hit pavement, then the last mile or so to school is paved. Whoo hoo! The views here are amazing. Look in every direction, there is either a valley or Mountain view, or BOTH. I think I need an altimeter in my car!
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Monday, August 20, 2007

canoeing in our backyard pond
specimen from pond













granny & tiki

















tiki is always catchin' fish from our pond
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Kathleen, Granny, and Bishop

Please buy my house?
Kathleen's 1st communion
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Sunday, August 19, 2007

cicada park (via kodak)

How Cicadas lay their eggs in branches
Grandma with Claire
















Grandma with Robby over shoulder
Kathleen's 1st cantoring (for the bishop)
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squiggly
This is what Mom said she'd miss most!
Claire loves mashed 'taters
17 year Cicada
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more sears portrait + home pics from phone




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More fun at park!



Claire at the pool, back home
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View of Lake Champlain from Battery Park, Burlington
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Saturday, August 4, 2007

You can do a lot from a public computer at Comfort Inns!...

view from front door
back of house
back of house from further back in yard.
more back of house
view from kitchen slider door
view from deck (out kitchen slider)
view from same deck, straight back
mountain view, back yard
same backyard view, different angle, lighting

Niagara Falls, American side
more Niagara
Moon visible in Morning sky from Lake-Express Ferry across Lake Michigan

From Deck of Lake-Express Ferry
Sunrise on Lake Michigan, 01 August 07, from Ferry
More sunrise, same day, an edited view would reveal the boys
you can see Conor and Robby better here
Huge shelf fungus seen while driving around Vermont's Washington County
Mist rainbow from precipice, Niagara, NY
Claire handling business phone calls while watching sibs play soccer





All of this goes to show, you can do a lot from a public hotel lobby terminal, including download photos, create a blog and publish unaccessible photos on the web, with a little creativity and know how.

I don't have a landline yet, but my Illinois cell still works, so feel free to call, especially after 9pm your time. (Until, say, 10pm), I think that will constitute night and weekend minutes!