• Photo Album 2011 – 2012

    Russ (a self portrait)
    At the Annual Zoolights exhibit at Point Defiance Zoo in Tacoma, Jan 2011
    Nighttime snow at our house (Laveta’s photo)
    Tacoma’s Chinese Reconciliation Park (Pagoda came from China and is being assembled)
    At the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma, February 2011 (photos from my iphone)
    an Oregon Junco at Laveta’s birdfeeder in March.
    Attack of the Doves
    On the WSU campus in Pullman WA, Laveta and the Bookman, Brenna hosting radio KZUU
    Brenna, Laveta, Renee, Ian, Lloyd. Pregame WSU vs UCLA, March 5th
    Our motorhome in Pasco WA, April 2011
    An escaped Loch Ness Monster in Kennewick WA
    Laveta and the Columbia River, Richland WA
    Abandoned building in Toppenish WA
    Yosemite Lake, Merced, CA, May 2011
    Mariposa in the Serra foothills. Lunch at Castillo’s
    Mt Shasta, CA
     
    Our new (2008) motorhome in the Point Hudson Marina, Port Townsend WA, June 2011
    Calol, Jim with Laveta & Me In T’s Resturant, in the marina/RVpark
    T’s Resturant, our motor home, and marine view
    Downtown Port Townsend

    The Annual Family Get-together at (brother John’s Property) Useless Bay, July 2011

    Our Motorhome on Useless Bay, Whidbey Island WA
    John & Laveta
    Blue Heron, Bald Eagle… and Jacob with Dead Crab (Jason’s photo)
    Samantha
    Cleaning freshly caught Dungeness Crab
    Sharon, Russ, Me, Carol
     
    Family Feasting
    The Brothers, (Olympic Mountains) and Sunset over Useless Bay
    Russ, Sharon, Mike
    At the Point Defiance Zoo
    At the Fish Tale Brew Pub, Olympia WA, August
    With Jim and Carol at the Enzian Inn, Leavenworth, Washington
    Ellensburg WA and Central Washington University
     
    Our motorhome at Lincoln Rock State Park on the Columbia River near Wenatchee WA
    This is an exceedingly beautiful place.

    At the Puyallup (Western Washington) State Fair, September 2011

     
    Siblings and Spouses, At the Elysian Pub, Seattle, Oct. 2011
    In Port Townsend & Fort Warden with Sharon & Russ, Kieth & Janie
    In Langley (Whidbey Island) with John and Becky
    On our daily walk in University Place, November 1st, 2011

    2012 ===================================================================== 2012

    The great snow (and ice) storm of January 18-19, 2012 at our home in University Place
    My reflection in laptop screen, Feb 2012

    A (two month) Winter escape to California:
    Corning, Chowchilla, Merced, Castic, San Diego, Ontario, Upland, Carlsbad, Ventura, Carpinteria, Ocenao (Pismo Beach), Prunedale (yes Prunedale) then Pacheco Pass, Hwy-99, I-5 and home. 27 January to 24 March, 2012 Photo page

    Downtown Toppenish WA May, 2012
    The American Hops Museum, Toppenish
    Blue Sky Market, Sharon, Russ and the great Tortilla machine
    Watching folks put up a teepee in our RV park (Yakama Nation RV)
    Yakama shopping- May, 2012
    University Place, WA- town mascot at city hall
    "Chili Pepper" our new family member. June-2012
    Annual family camping at Useless Bay, Whidbey Island, WA 9-15 july 2012
    On brother John’s property.
     
    Our lucky eagle. He overlooks our site every year.
     
    Me, crab pots and John.
     
    Lots of food
    Brother Tom’s 60th Birthday
    A baby seal with Carol and Laveta looking on. It still had it’s umbilical cord!
    Scotch tasting in the barn. Note farm tractor- glass fuel-filter bowls used as shot glasses.
    John – Me – Jim Until next year!
    Ron (of Steve’s Produce in University Place)
    Laveta and Mike at the Point Defiance Zoo, Tacoma WA
    At Northwest-Trek with Jason, Jennifer, Jacob. September 2012
     
    Laveta & Carol (& Shannon) on their annual visit to the Western Washington Fare
    in Puyallup WA. 9/12/2012

    My 50th High School Reunion
    Merced CA, 9/22/2012

    Laveta shopping for Chili at PetSmart
    A few days in Port Townsend (Point Hudson RV). Jack-O-Lantern reflection in our RV’s windshield
    At Seattle’s Pacific Science Center King Tut exhibit- a special University of Washington
    Dean’s Club event that included a talk by UW alumni and Egyptologists Dr. Kent Weeks.
    There was also food and a no host bar! The King Tut exhibit was great- although no
    photography was allowed. Henry, Laveta & Me. Nov. 29th 2012
    At the annual GP Christmas dinner- this year at the Museum of Flight, Seattle
    Graduation day for Brenna (our niece) Washington State University, 8 December, 2012
    In third photo: Renee, Laveta, Brenna. Lloyd, Ian
    Christmas 2012: Me, Mike, Laveta, Sharon, Russ & Chili
     
     

  • 2005 to 2007

    California Dreamin’ Napa Valley, California, April 2005

    Laveta and the Gold Wing- fronting a section of a much larger mural painted on the side of a building near what was the the old Northern Pacific rail yard, South Tacoma WA. June 2005
    Laveta in her 60th year, 4 July 2005
    Tall Ships in Tacoma, July 2005
    1 Pallada, length 356 feet, mast height 162 feet- Vladivostok, Russia
    2 Rigging on the Pallada
    3 Cuauhtemoc, length 270 feet- Acapulco, Mexico
    4 Laveta with our son Mike aboard the Cuauhtemoc
    Both Photo’s- on brother John’s property, July 2005
    1 Laveta driving a tractor for the first time. (Just look at that smile.)
    2 Carol on the beach at Useless Bay, Whidbey Island, Washington
    A daytrip to Mt. Rainier National Park– August 2005
    At home – Aug 2005

    PDF, 8pp
    Greece, the Greek Islands of Mykonos, Rhodes, Patmos
    & Ephesus in Turkey, 26 August – 6 September 2005

    Wine Tasting in California (again) March 2006

    14 July 2006… after 36 years- Retirement!

    Traveling in the West: Washington, Idaho, Montana,
    Wyoming, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico,
    Texas, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon
    September – October 2006

    Laveta on a Snowy day in University Place, WA, January 16, 2007
    Shooting rats on brother John’s property, Whidbey Island Washington, February, 2007
    Jim, Carol, Laveta & Me: Frog’s Leap, Rutherford California March 2007
    Whidbey Island, Washington – July 2005
    At the Museum of Glass – Tacoma Washington (The glass "Hot -Shop" is inside the cone)

    PDF, 12pp
    London, Paris, Chartres, Tours, Bordeaux, Lourdes, Pau, Biarritz, Burgos, Madrid, Toledo, Barcelona, Montserrat, Cannes, Monaco, Nice, Pisa, Montecatini, Florence, Assisi, Pompeii, Genoa, Isle of Capri, Sorrento, Venice (including Lido & Burano islands) Vienna, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Ober-ammergau, Liechtenstein, Lucerne, Freiburg, Heidelberg, St. Goar, Boppard, Cologne Amsterdam, Calais, Dover, London
    5 September – 6 October 2007

    This section covers the PATRAM Symposium in Miami Florida 21-26 October 2007

    Miami and the Marriott Doral hotel- site of the Symnposium
    Dinner at the Versailles– Miami ( great Cuban food)
    Sharon and Rich
    A wonderful dinner at the Vyzcaya Museum – courtesy of AREVA
     
    The final Banquet Night program, 25 October 2007
    Banquet Night at the LegendsBallroom at the Marriott. Sharon socializing.
    At the Banquet
    Award winners from previous PATRAM-2004 in Berlin (That’s me on the right)
    Laveta, Sharon and their ‘Gators".
    Laveta, Joe and Molly (St. Petersburg pier) and an outdoor lunch
    The "Vice Squad" Christmas Brunch (2007)
    In the operating room: My cervical spine undergowing an "Anterior Cervical Microdiskectomy with Fusion and Anterior Plate Fixation".
    19 Dec 2007 (I feel a lot better now!)

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