Well these are a little late in-coming, but here’s a link to the pictures in our gallery from an attempted climb we did of Mt. Adams.
Album Link: http://www.steudel.org/pictures/thumbnails.php?album=70&page=1
After two years of living overseas, living out of suitcases, living off of friends and families, we’re finally back in our house. Our renters have moved out, we’ve had the whole place deep cleaned, and the wood floors redone and Friday the movers came and emptied out our 10×10 storage into our house. We’ve been spending the last 3 days unpacking, organizing, and restocking. It’s been a great two years, but its nice to finally set some roots down again. Come visit!
On July 30th Mark and I headed up to Vancouver Island to the town of Coombs for the Coombs Bluegrass Festival. They played three times over two days and got a great reception from the audience. Their Friday night performance was one of the best I’ve ever seen them have. Unlike the band, I didn’t have to rehearse, so I got to see some other really amazing bands. Below are a few shots from the weekend.
Robin (extremely talented fiddle player who joined them for the weekend), Mark Steudel, Mike Karbowski, Mark Meyers, Dave Grout, Pete Thorn, Ken (Banjo played filling in for Greg)
Band in action again
Mark Meyer on Dobro
Mark Steudel in action
We’ve been wondering what to put on the homepage of our web site for a while now. We have a blog, we have a gallery … So a while back we thought, it’d be cool if you just see a bunch of random images from our gallery, so we wrote a little program that grabs a bunch of images from our gallery and continually randomizes them on our front page. You can click on them and enlarge them. Anyway we finally got it done and put it up. Check it out. It’s not perfect, but we think it’s fun.
Mark
Recently we decided that we needed to update our point-and-shoot camera. We’ve always had a water-resistant one because we do so much in the water and *someone * has a bad habit of dropping electronics out of their float tube! Our friend Kaj had written about his waterproof camera, so we decided to go this route. Its not much more expensive and you can do lots of cool (albeit possibly useless) things with it….as evidenced below. We may look dorky, but we’re having tons of fun!
Fishing at Starlight has always been a fun activity, but in the past we haven’t eaten too much of it. Usually we eat a single fish just a couple of times a summer. My friend Matt was up at his house down the lake last weekend and we decided to do a whole meal of lake fish. This involved catching lots of fish (photo #1), cleaning all the fish (photo #2, with the help of Lucy), cooking the fish (photo #3, Mark and Matt did all the cooking) and the eating (photo #4, as you can see each fish was cooked differently. There were six different kinds including pan-fried, mustard-soy sauce, lemon, steamed, etc). It was a yummy dinner!
Damsel Flies are very delicate versions of Dragon Flies. These two paused long enough for me to capture them as they rested during their mating flight.
Looking at this fish, where would you guess it’s from? Note the blue gill plate, the pink underbody body, the black “ears” behind the eye … if you click on the picture and look closely you’ll see iridescent flecks of gold and silver. If you guessed Tanzania, Kenya, or South America I wouldn’t blame you. This fish is from the lake (Starlight lake), right here out our front door. It’s called a Bluegill, also called Panfish or Sunfish. The fish is very common, and in some lakes (mainly trophy trout lakes) considered a pest. But they fight well on light tackle and supposedly taste great (we’ll let you know how that goes). We’ve seen some amazing animals in Africa, but it’s great to remember that we have our own animals to appreciate right here at home. (Note: this picture is unaltered, it just happen to come out this vividly. We used our little waterproof Olympus Stylus 850SW)
Yesterday we had a great time on Dad’s day. We spent it biking around town, eating good food, and just good ol’ hangin’ out kind of fun. Hope everyone else out there had a great day as well!