Wedding pictures from Aunt Judy

A first glimpse

Taking out the trash.

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Part 2:

He got it there eventually.

Bonus video, in which Jamie (with a heavy cold) forgets the word for doggie:

As usual, videos are in much better quality on Youtube.

Accordion Magic

Jamie can drive stick!

Recent discoveries

The youngest cousin, Olivia, who turned three on August 4:

Olivia and her warm, lovely mother Misha:

Olivia kayaking with her proud dad:

And then, a week later, the Bonneville Salt Flats:

Not far off, the legendary Bonneville Speedway underwater, because it had rained the day before we visited:

 Insane people driving through the salt water on the Speedway.  We saw sedans, a UHaul truck and a pickup truck towing a trailer roaring through the water kicking up wakes like speedboats, all of which emerged soaked and coated irreparably with salt, but driven nonetheless by elated people wearing maniacal grins:

The most stunning vast empty lovely place on earth, on the Utah/Nevada border a few miles west of the salt flats on a back road only a short way from the Interstate.  We saw pronghorn antelope, an eagle wheeling slowly overhead, and immeasurable distances in a great stillness where there was no one but us:

Your father triumphant after scaling a butte (zoom in, you'll find him):

And a mustang in the stunning Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge in the northwest corner of Nevada:

 Tonight, Klamath Falls, Oregon.  Tomorrow, Crater Lake, and Sunday, Molly's wedding.

Wedding shower!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy 85th birthday, Mom!

Just a taste

. . . of fireworks at the Reservoir.  I wish it were possible to video the whole shoreline all at once, with bonfires ringing the lake and so many fireworks shooting off from every cottage that no matter where you look, you're missing something, and the bangs and hisses and booms and sounds of happy people hooting in delight and applauding one another echoing over the water for hours.   Plan now to make it to CNY next July 3rd.  Not to be missed.
 

Floods

Look at these pictures of what's been going on in our old home. These tracks are just north of East Main Street in the Village of Earlville, on the way to Eve Ann and Harmon's.

Gilligan's really is an island.  (Enlarge to read the sign!)

These pictures are from last night and the water has mostly receded now, but the flood warning is still up for  a possibility of more tonight.  And then there's Norwich!