Saturday, June 09, 2007

Oskar

My youngest nephew, now a beautiful year and a half old

And then..

.. nine months went by...

Tuesday, September 12, 2006

As You Like It

The outdoor theatre I'm working at -- spectacular backdrop of Californian hills


Lizards roaming the audience

Barbara's 24th

Celebrating Barbara's birthday with teenage partners in crime

The birthday girl and Megan holding it in


Serious as usual


Look at that height difference

Berkeley

Spending a month as an assistant director in Berkeley -- the little cottage where I've been staying


My street


The UCB campus




They're everywhere

San Francisco

The most photogenic city I know -- the skyline from Telegraph Hill


Bay Bridge in the distance


Bay Bridge up close


Driving on the Bay Bridge

Seattle

Quick visit to Seattle on my way out to California -- cloudy, but an impressive city.

Downtown




Freshed squeezed


The Pike Place Market




The U of Washington campus

Whale-watching in Massachusets

My cousins Judy and Rollin took me whale-watching in Gloucester, MA -- lots of humpbacks up close, pretty spectacular..















flying back east

Some spectacular aerial views on my flight from Seattle back to New York in June


Sunday, June 18, 2006

Zipping through the forest

A free ride on Juneau's best zip-line -- an amazing ride. Megan clips Isabel to the line and herself


The skybridge


Zipping from one platform to the next


Megan guiding us


A view through the treetops


The final drop

Hiking at the Glacier

I finally made it to the Mendenhall Glacier -- some views from the East Glacier trail








Mendenhall Lake and several icebergs

Whale-watching wedding

Flordelino & Jenny's wedding on the catamaran -- heading out of Auke Bay on a beautiful summer day


Herbert Glacier -- the backdrop for the ceremony


An orca (the black dot in the middle of the picture)


An orca party in the distance


Clay and Kirsa reminisce on their days as newly-weds


Marilyn Hughes-Skandijs




Wednesday, May 31, 2006

The White Pass - Yukon Railroad

The highlight of our Skagway adventure -- a ride on the White Pass - Yukon railroad, the preferred method of travel for gold rush stampeders at the turn of the last century. Getting ready to board in downtown Skagway


The train -- all tourists at this point.


View of Skagway and the Lynn Canal in the distance


Completely untouched nature


The Skagway river -- far down below




The valley opens up


View of another train across the valley


An avalanche hit the railroad just a few days before our visit -- luckily, it was cleared in time


View of the same avalanche from across the way


Approaching the snow-capped pass


Tunnel


Less and less trees as we approach the pass


A bridge no longer in use, but a remarkable feat of engineering in its day


The White Pass and Summit Lake -- the Canadian border and the end of our journey.