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February 21, 2025
Luxembourg, Fall 2024
This past fall, I finally got to see the pretty little European country where Bill worked for Dupont decades ago, before we met. It was an outstanding day of our fall cruise.
September 23, 2024
Bruges
As much as I like beer and chocolate, I like history even more. In Bruges, I hope to visit St. John’s the oldest existing hospital (12th century) in Europe. The whole medieval city center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The beer from their biggest brewery is piped underground to...
September 4, 2024
Ribbon Trail
Bill and I have been doing the work to get our hiking legs back, and we were rewarded Sunday morning when we walked the ribbon trail from Hendricks Park. The trail is short, but it has some real ups and downs, and it felt glorious to be fit enough to...
April 9, 2024
Fire and Snow
We’re in Colorado, enjoying some beautiful late-season snow squalls. There was an inch and a half on the ground when we woke up this morning. We headed out to meet Bill’s son John and grandson Charlie at the playground. We used the snow mounded on the slide to make snowballs...
April 5, 2024
Colorado Sunshine
Visiting Marianne in Boulder. The brilliant light, blue sky, and rosy clouds at sunset are an invigorating change from the gloom of an Oregon winter.
April 4, 2024
Spring Beauties
Pacific Northwest natives wild current and Oregon wild grape are blooming together right now. Purples were dominant in Hendrick’s Park this weekend.
February 3, 2024
Layover at the Getty Center
Most of the day to spend in LA? The Getty Center seemed the perfect choice, only 11 miles from the LA airport, where we would depart in the evening for Vietnam. We had a leisurely breakfast, then caught an Uber. It was a beautiful day, a little chilly, but the...
January 30, 2024
Leaving Paradise
It’s pretty rare for me to eat a cheeseburger, but we’re officially on vacation. We probably won’t see many burgers in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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