More

We've had some requests for a few more photos. Soon we'll post some from our GC float trip. . .

Before

DavidIn the car

During

After

David insisted on this door for some reason

Look

"I believe the most loving thing you can say to a person is “Look.” And the most loving stance is not a close embrace, but two people standing side by side, looking out together on the world.

When people learn to look, they begin to see, really see. When they begin to see, they begin to care. And caring is the portal into the moral world."
Kathleen Dean Moore


And for good measure, here is a gorilla.

Black And White (A.K.A. "Look at me, I'm soooo artistic")

I've recently learned a whole lot about editing B&W photos digitally. It started about the time I scanned, retouched, and printed the photo of Shelley's great-uncle's (great-uncle, I think) wedding. The Luminous Landscape has been a really great source of knowledge.

This last week I went back through all our Africa photos and found three that I had previously overlooked.

Enough talk. Pictures.

If you haven't already heard

We're making it official. This is Great Uncle Hallet and Great Aunt Mellon at their wedding in the 1940s I think. Our wedding will not be exactly like this, but it's a such a great picture.

Click on it to see it better.

Dash

The first weekend in December Kennet competed in a sea kayak dash up at Deception Pass. It had been snowing in Seattle the day before and it was extremely cold up there, with intermittent snow. I took many failed photos but I like this one of him coming back in, a little over an hour later with a very respectable time. I warmed up by hiking up and around to the other side a huge hill where the main part of the pass is to get a better look, but I didn't take the camera for that part. Man is it hard to tell a bunch of boat people apart at height.

Christmas business

Here is me with my comb-over and our cute Christmas tree. We got a Norfolk Pine at City People's a week or two ago with the idea that it's the best compromise we can come up with . While I love love love a real tree, we both agree that cutting it down is a little more than we want to bite off at this point.

We made our own stockings this year, using somewhat felted sweaters. Kennet cut out the template shapes and I made some embellishments and sewed up the edges. We'll post more photos as soon as they're completely done.

Among the other Christmas business taking place around here:

• a gingerbread castle, complete with gummy bear minions
• highly technical present wrapping of all kinds
• christmas birds that now adorn our door, our tree, our wall, and every christmas card or present I'll give this year
• many other secret things I can't describe yet
  

3 more days of work and then a lovely 6 day weekend.

Photo Dump 1

This should be the first of a short series of photo dumps. Not much in the way of text, just pictures. Most of the pictures speak for themselves, or at least have little to say.