One last picture(s) from the trip to the sculpture park. Here Terese is going through her repertoire of poses for the camera.
This is four still shots I took and then in Photoshop aligned them all, and created an animated gif.
Sunday we took the day off from work and we headed out to Eastern Washington and floated down the Yakima river. The weather was sunny and warm all day. The leaves were turning to their fall colors. The fish … not so cooperative, handful here and there. At the end of the day we were even joined by this fellow (see pictures) …
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!
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
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.
Every Memorial Day, an event takes place in Oneonta NY, the Clinton Canoe Regatta. There are many divisions, but none so illustrious as the Coed Aluminum Relay division. The race is generally on Sunday with the our teams (Red Lining and Blue Lining) showing up the day before. Every year the first task is figuring out “The List” of who is paddling with who. The race consists of 5 legs of varying lengths with the middle legs being the longest. The goal is to find a balance between strength, experience and match those up to the correct legs. Below Bebeth and Courtney try and figure out the best match up.
Below is the crew right before taking for the starting line
Graphite paddles prepared ….
The start is always chaos, 30 - 40 boats all jockeying for position.
This is a relay point, teammates in the water ready to assist the finishing team out of the boat and the starting team into the boat
After everyone comes in, the boats get loaded back on the trucks and we all get to talk about the weekend till next year ….
And of course the weekend wouldn’t be complete with out a trip to the Penguin (Unfortunetly I didn’t have a picture )
Links:
More pictures:
http://www.steudel.org/pictures/thumbnails.php?album=69
Clinton Canoe Regatta web site:
http://www.canoeregatta.org/
A good friend of our, BRyan Polson, fellow returned Peace Corps volunteer, and now back in Kenya, sent us these pictures of the two national papers in Kenya … both featuring Obama.
Here’s his explanation:
As one race is over, so another begins. However, as you know, Obama has simply become an international phenomenon. Now, multiply that by pie-r-squared and you have the feeling of the pandemonium his victory has created here. I have gotten “Aye, just imagine that it was one of us who finally did it in America!” or “Obama Tosha!” (”tosha” meaning “enough” as in “all we need” which was used by Raila Odinga during this past election for Kenya as in “Raila Tosha”). People are selling t-shirts and there is talks of a security detail soon being sent to his grandmother’s tiny little village of Kogelo near Lake Victoria. For those of us American, we are well aware of the history here, but do know that in Kenya, a nation celebrates too!
I’ve attached pictures of today’s newspapers headlines and have included some links to the stories they have written:
Kenyans Salute Obama, The Standard
Obama Clinches Democratic Ticket, The Nation
Obama Sr went to US on scholarship…, The Nation
Why Africa Exults at Obama’s Victory, The Nation EditorialEnjoy! And…OBAMA TOSHA
Last weekend Proctor and I headed up to the annual fishing trip on the Delaware river. It was a great time though the fishing was horrible. I caught only one trout the whole weekend. The first day we went fishing it rained all day long:
The second day was at least sunny. A lot more folks had show up by this point and half of us got in canoes and headed down the East Branch. Below is a picture of our boats and fly rods.
Here my fishing partner, Fred, was working a nice riffle, though no fish showed any appearance.
A lot of what this weekend was about is sharing, hanging out, and having a great time. Here Tom and Sam sit on the remains of a old bridge support, having a good time.
I did happen to catch something, and while it wasn’t a fish, it was interesting, though in a gross kind of way.
This creature was somewhere between a foot and a half and two feet long. It had actually gotten snagged on my fly while I was fishing, when it rolled over I got a look at this:
A circular sucker mouth full of pointy little teeth. Below is a video of it swimming away.
After I got back I looked it up on the internet and found out that it’s a Sea Lamprey. I guess they swim up the rivers to spawn.
We also recently upgraded our old digital point and shoot for a new camera, the Olympus 850sw. The selling point of this camera is that it’s completely waterproof. I tested it out on this bass I caught in the lake.
Anyway it was a great weekend and I can’t wait to get back to Starlight.