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Last Day in Oregon
August 09, 2013 - A drive back up the coast to the airport in Portland to catch an evening flight back to the East Coast:
I stopped along...
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Cape Perpetua
August 09, 2013 - On Saturday, I spent the day at Cape Perpetua, between the towns of Yachats and Florence, Oregon. In the morning, I visi...
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Silver Falls and Proxy Falls
July 18, 2013 - On Friday, I drove south to see Silver Falls State Park. There’s a few well-known waterfalls there, and I especially wan...
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Back to the Gorge
July 18, 2013 - On Thursday, when the conference was over, I drove back to the Columbia Gorge.
[All the photos can be seen here on Flic...
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Hoyt Arboretum
July 16, 2013 - On Tuesday, I took an afternoon off from the conference and hiked around Portland’s Hoyt Arboretum:
All the photos are...
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Portland Japanese Garden
July 14, 2013 - On Sunday before Lesley and Emma left, we spent the morning in the Portland Japanese Garden:
Link to the full set here.
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Dams, Salmon, and Lampreys (oh my!)
July 12, 2013 - On Friday, we left Hood River and headed back along the Columbia Gorge towards Portland. Our first stop of the day was t...
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Mount Hood
July 11, 2013 - On Thursday, we drove down to the area around Mt. Hood. We first stopped off at the ranger station to get our backcountr...
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Transition to the Mountains
July 10, 2013 - [The entire set of photos from our trip is on Flickr]
On Wednesday, we went to Fort Clatsop in the morning. This is the...
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Coast
July 09, 2013 - On Tuesday, we had a full day. You can find the full set on Flickr:
We had fun on the Astoria Riverwalk:
We drove out...
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Traveling
July 08, 2013 - We flew out to Portland today for our family vacation. It was a good flight. I haven’t flown Delta in years; I had gotte...
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Blue Ridge 2013
June 03, 2013 - After the Roller Derby bout in Asheville this weekend, we drove down the Blue Ridge Parkway and Rt. 276 towards Brevard,...
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Storm over SC
June 03, 2013 - Storm clouds on the way back from Asheville yesterday. Lots of rain and wind was all we got, thankfully.
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British Columbia Trip, 1998
April 29, 2013 - In May of 1998, I went to an international climatology conference in Whistler, BC. I brought along an old Canon AE-1 cam...
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Wake Forest
March 23, 2013 - The quad at Wake Forest. Wait Chapel, with Spring in the air and TP in the trees.
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Ed and Jean
March 23, 2013 - Last week I went and visited Ed and Jean Christman, in Winston-Salem. Ed was the chaplain at Wake Forest University whil...
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Atlanta
November 07, 2012 - Last weekend I was fortunate to be able to travel to Atlanta to photograph the WFTDA Championships. We stayed at the Atl...
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One last time
July 31, 2012 - Day 21: Goodbye Scotland. I’m writing this from my home computer. This morning, we got up at 5 AM (British Time) to make...
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Segways
July 30, 2012 - Day 20: Last day before we leave. We went into Oban for groceries and one last fish-and-chips, and to the Tralee Segway...
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Sunday
July 29, 2012 - Day 19: Sunday. Resting up before we leave.
Andy, Kate, Mamie, Lesley, Emma and Janet:
Lesley and Emma riding the Fe...
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A slower day…
July 28, 2012 - Day 18: A day back in Oban. We went out today to tour Dunstaffnage Castle, right down the road. We’d been to the grounds...
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Castles and Wind and Rainbows.
July 27, 2012 - Day 17: We started off from Uig, around the single track road around the northern tip of Skye. Cold and windswept is pre...
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Hogwarts Train, Skye, Uig and Fairy Glen.
July 27, 2012 - Day 16: We traveled towards the Isle of Skye today. We first stopped off at Glenfinnan, where the monument to the Jacobi...
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Mull. Staffa. Iona.
July 25, 2012 - Day 15: We visited the islands of Mull, Staffa and Iona today. To get to Staffa and Iona, you first have to take the fer...
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Ben Nevis. Glen Coe. Glen Orchy.
July 24, 2012 - Day 14: Today made up for the past few rainy days. We drove up Loch Linnhe past Stalker Castle (the other castle from Mo...
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Rain, rain, go away…
July 23, 2012 - Day 13: Vertical Rain. Just to change things up a bit.
Supposed to clear tomorrow. Ben Nevis is on the agenda.
Combi...
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Rain
July 22, 2012 - Day 12: Lots of rain today. We went into town on errands, but not much else. Lesley’s cousin Fred is visiting, and so I...
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Bridges, Castles, Ostriches, but no ordinary Rabbit!
July 21, 2012 - Day 11: We started the morning in Stirling, at the site of the 1297 Battle of Stirling Bridge. We then moved up the hill...
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Stirling. Wallace.
July 20, 2012 - Day 10: Kelvingrove (Again) and the William Wallace Monument in Stirling.
The Kelvingrove Museum was so interesting we...
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Glasgow. Roller Derby.
July 19, 2012 - Day 9: Glasgow. We spent the day in Glasgow, including lunch with a fellow Roller Derby photographer, Dave McAleavy, a v...
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Travel. Rain. Landslides.
July 18, 2012 - Day 8:Travel day. We drove from Oban to Irvine today, to stay for a while with Lesley’s cousin. It poured down rain most...
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Standing Stones and Hill Forts
July 17, 2012 - Day 7: A rainy day with low hanging clouds. We drove down the coast to Kilmartin Glen, where there are the standing ston...
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Breakfast by the Falls of Lora
July 16, 2012 - I walked down to the village this morning to get breakfast. Ate at the Falls of Lora, where the tidal currents of Loch E...
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Rainy day in Oban
July 15, 2012 - Day 5: The rain returned to the area. We ate breakfast at Tesco’s, then walked through town by the harbour. We intended...
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Taynuilt Highland Games
July 14, 2012 - Day 4: We went today to the Taynuilt Highland Games. It was a sunny day, perfect for watching the games and watching dan...
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Churches and Castles
July 13, 2012 - Day 3: We started out the day at Ardchatten Priory, on the north shore of Loch Etive, The present building is not the fi...
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Beach
July 12, 2012 - Day 2: The first thing we did today was to visit Tralee Beach on Ardmucknish Bay at Benderloch.
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Jetlag
July 12, 2012 - Arrived in Scotland today. Lesley’s dad Norrie met us at the Glasgow airport, and drove us back to his house in Connel,...
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