dive in

I think I am about to enjoy a good meal here.  Wow, pancakes and eggs and bacon and grapefruit juice and a cup of coffee.  Yum, yum.  Everyone should start their day out with a good breakfast.  I't the most important meal of the day, right?  (same hairstyle)

birthday dinner with Dad

My favorite Mexican restaurant in Venice, Florida always did the birthday honoree proud.  The hat, the serenade, the food--all this and more--made the evening especially fun.  Here I am with my Dad fourteen years ago enjoying the moment.  A nice memory.

ordering out

Just me and three of my friends from high school/college hanging out for the evening.

dinner mates

Somewhere hidden in this very dark snapshot are eight hungry people gathered around the table on the ship we were all sailing in along the western coast of Norway.  The year is 2004 and I am traveling with my sister.  It is another one of our adventures and this was only the beginning.  The sailing part took one week and we were safely tucked away on our ship.  The next three weeks brought more adventure "on the fly" as we made our way from northern Norway, through Finland (scary trains), Sweden (beautiful farmlands) and back to Oslo.  But about our shipmates...Americans and Tasmanian/Latvians.  We bonded over dinner each night and talked of our daily adventures.  This is a very good memory.

family photo

This is just one of those quick candid pictures like the one that everybody has tucked away in some old file drawer, somewhere.  The two bookends (in the picture) got together and authored the two noteworthy epic novels in the middle.  Good work!!  p.s. I'm the short one.

in good company

I took this picture while I was visiting Mt. Rushmore National Monument during the month of July in 2016.  It is amazing to be standing in the shadows of these huge stone carvings in the Black Hills region of South Dakota.  Do I look like I'm having a good time?  Yes, indeed-y!!

random J

Whenever I see the letter J written, painted, stamped or scraped into a surface, I can't help but take a picture of it.  Random J's.  No reason.  Perhaps no purpose.  Just random J's.  The cover background for this blog is a picture of a J.B. (how convenient) that I saw carved into the sidewalk on a street in Ocean Beach.  The letter seems so out of context to the surroundings that I am always surprised to see it there.  Anyway, I spotted this one on a sidewalk as I was walking by and--snap--I had to have a picture of it for my collection.  That's it.