Family Collage

Top row: Ben and Nora; middle row: Nora and Sophie, the kids, Ben and Grace; bottom row: Ann, Nora and Sophie

Hey! It's too quiet in here!

Relaxing in Halifax, Nova Scotia

It's way too quiet in here these days... I know people have news and photos and storys to share and I'm as guilty as anyone for getting too busy. I'll try harder.

Dad, I have been loving your photos--both the old ones in the album and the current ones you post as you take them. Mom, you MUST have a new project going and we want to see it! JJohn and Jan... let us know how things are going... and Wendi... where are recent photos of you and family? How are you guys? Kate, I keep hoping to find you in here but I haven't heard from you since our last round of email. Did you ever manage to make your blog invite work? Meigs and Mary... we'd love to hear from you! Misty gets a gold star for continuing to contribute and the rest of you (you know who you are) ought to drop in and let us know what's up.

In local news, I've been managing a project out in New Jersey, which means a long frustrating commute every day through Manhattan and rush hour traffic. The project ends today and Jack and I are off to Prague for a week. Oddly, I haven't even bought a guidebook yet... which is very unlike me, as I usually prepare for trips like this well ahead of time. Looks like I'll be studying up on the plane tomorrow night! I'll post our impressions and photos when we get back. Jack and I went to Halifax last weekend to visit friends and celebrate his birthday... predictably it rained the entire weekend--it always rains when we go to Canada.

Take care, everyone... and drop a line, eh?

More Over the Years Photos

Hi all - another update of my "Photos Over the Years." There are some neat and nostalgic photos in this bunch. I hope you enjoy them.

A Quail Family

Hi - Yesterday, MaryAnne called me to the back door to watch some hewly hatched Gambel's Quail chicks venturing out around our yard. The Gambel's Quail chicks are ready to run around almost immediatly after coming out of the egg. After the chicks hatch, the family leaves the nest traveling in formation, the father in the lead, the puff-ball chicks in the middle, with mother taking up the rear. Gambel's Quail have been clocked on the ground a better than 15 miles per hour. I got some pictures of the chicks early venturing as you can see below.

And then they head back to the safety of the Mexican Bird of Paradise.

The Chicks look around at the big bad world.

The Chicks venture out from under a Mexican Bird of Paradise.

Mother Gambel's Quail is standing by while her brand new brood ventures out on a walk around.