In which we enjoy a catered lunch thanks to the ladies of the Endwell United Methodist Church, followed by demonstration and lessons on creating flower arrangements by the man who owns the Renaissance Florist and Garden in Binghamton.
To be reinstated ... 2011
To be added for the first time ... 2012, 2013
The following sections will be put up over the next week. --Marianne, June 12, 2010
Funeral (54 photos)
Baptism (86 photos)
Three videos by Linda, and the Dad Memorial Movie
Kids and Salzburg- Lara on bike ... girls lip syncing ... Bells of Salzburg Dom ... Liam (4 mins 48 secs)
5 Koeniger cousins - Finlay, Helena, Aggie, Lara and Ella dancing around on June 3 during Corpus Christi celebration in Kirchberg, Austria (1 min 8 secs)
Dad Memorial Movie The
display is tiny, about 1 inch square, so you might prefer to watch
this from the DVD, either on a TV or by putting the DVD in your
computer and letting it play. (12 minutes)
Annual plant sale and fair put on by UCCE Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County - the master gardener web site is http://mastergardeners.org/scc.html (53 pictures)
Ella dancing as Star: 1 min 42 sec. Lara as "Kind 1" with a line to recite: 3 mins. Liam chowing down on cardboard oops I mean some gross baby food: 22 secs. Liam rolling over: 20 secs. The videos are embedded on the troutlily webpage and I also have links in case the embedding doesn't work for you. Let me know of any snafus.
Multimedia presentation of the scallop release! All the newspaper articles are reprinted along with the photos & videos.
Go Linda! (5 pictures, links to photo gallery of 12 pictures, two short videos)
A random collection of memories form 2009. Sent as glossy macbook to Mom. Which got lost in fedex neverneverland. I ordered a second one to send to Mom. (74 pictures)
The willow stick I stuck in the ground grew to 18' in two years
and HAD TO GO before it invaded all my water pipes. Its roots will
just get any water they can from anywhere. You don't want willows
close to the pipes. Of course now I have a tiny curly willow at the
other end of the garden. Maybe it will be a dwarf willow!!! ho ho ho.
(There is no such thing.) (7 pictures)
It's been 2 1/2 years at 333 Kingsley and some things are starting to look garden-esque although truth to tell the whole thing is random, eccentric and its beauty is in the eye of the beholder. (20 pictures)
Nicole is about 2 1/2 and a friendly next door neighbor who drops by often to help me by cooking, cleaning, watering the garden, putting plants in the ground, and so on, in ways that her imagination suggests to her! She is good about not using the computer now. Oh, she's also good at loading the washing machine and setting it going (for real on that one. Also she did plant a thyme plant once on her own.)
Great kid. (18 pictures)
Catching up with photos from this year in Austria: Schwester Augusta visits; Mom and Dad travel to Austria; Pfarrhof Celebration and Obama Celebration (16 pictures)
Racing along the driveway, hide and seek, painting Puff the Magic Dragon and braving the scary forest to find the swings, all in princess high heels (84 photos)
The Palo Alto hardware stores are selling LED Christmas lights for half-price (so about $5 or $6 per 20' string - details vary - see the web page for details) (9 pictures)
Day's Market and Day's Cottages ... these are photos I snitched from their web site, to plant the idea that maybe some summer we can convene there. (2 pictures)
California Cottage Garden
The first six months. Eclectic, and everything's an experiment. (52 pictures)
Update from late June - orlaya now in full bloom (6 pictures)
Datura metel, August through September, 2007 (7 pictures)
Let Mike know which shot you like, for a head crop. And let me know
if you'd like to see larger versions of these. There are in fact 3
pictures - there are multiple shots per picture, as it were.
from the cardboard boxes in storage, January 10 (1 picture)
The 333 Chronicles, 2007 edition
California Cottage Garden - The first six months, January to June. Eclectic, and everything's an experiment. (52 pictures) And - an update from June 27 (6 pictures).
After almost 20 years in California, I wasn't turning into a tall, slender, blond surfer babe, so I decided to take matters into my own hands. (9 pictures)
The MLA alumni association (in the person of Suzanne!) organized a great tour/hike of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve, which is up in Woodside.
The Red Hat Society met for lunch (March 14), and Patrick and
Karyn and their little girl Alaya came by on March 18 to celebrate
Patrick's birthday with a cake. (6 pictures)
Mali and Gerhard visited Egelsbach to see everyone (OK, to see Lara). October 17-18. (10 pictures)
Christmas Day at Clifton Park and Palo Alto
Lara gets the hang of opening presents, and good friends get together for a sumptuous dinner at Marianne's. December 25. (20 pictures and 3 video clips)
Christmas Eve at La Selva
I dropped by La Selva for Christmas Eve dinner. December 24. (7 pictures)
Dinner at Kokkari's
Mary Jane invited 5 of us to a wonderful dinner in the city. December 23. (5 pictures)
A wonderful black top hat was offered to the first comer, in my building - I grabbed it. It's a bit small for me so you can have it if you can make use of it. (4 pictures)
Amaryllis Bella Donna, or Naked Lady, is springing up all over town. Possibly my favorite flower. On my walk today, I made do with taking many pictures of Naked Ladies instead of picking a couple to bring home. Also, a couple pictures of pretty houses and gardens in Palo Alto. (26 pictures)
The Big Party!, May 15 (49 pictures) Note: there are 3 photos not displayed properly - #20, #29, #30 - I have been arguing with my computer about it, and the computer won. I know when I get home and get back to my trusty Apple iBook, I'll be able to fix it. --ed.
Greek Easter at George and Judy Marcus', May 1
A fabulous time was had by all at this celebration of Easter. (42 pictures)
Passover Seder at Miriam's. April 24
Nine people gathered to bow our heads for freedom. (7 pictures)
Segway Polo, Sunnyvale, April 17
Lots of novices riding Segways and looking dorky, and some action shots of the polo match! (30 pictures)
Susan Dunlap Photography Gallery, April 9
A couple dozen people dropped by to view Susan's beautiful photographs of flowers. (32 pictures)
Le Canoe! early April
Gary launches the just-completed hand-made wooden canoe. (5 pictures)
There are 8 pages: 3 of my pictures, and 5 of fellow camper Jerry's pictures. I hope you will find you can quickly scroll through each top-level page and not have to spend too much time to get an overall impression.
My pictures:
We arrive at camp, settle in, and head our for our first workday on Monday, pulling mustard. (36 pictures)
Giant Sequoias and the gala dinner Tuesday evening. (24 pictures)
Searching for the illusive rare plant, Ivesia. (39 pictures)
Jerry's pictures:
Yosemite's forests, meadows and mountains ... and killer trees! (30 pictures)
Caitlin, Audrey and I spend a wonderful couple of days in the quiet country near the sea up north. (15 pictures)
Big Sur wildness and calmness: June 28 - July 2, 2004
Esalen is a miracle of a place along the coast. June 28 - June 30, 2004. (39 pictures) The Tassajara Zen Center another miracle. June 30 - July 2, 2004. (33 pictures) Big Sur 2004, or, my take on Esalen and Tassajara. Text only.
Lara at 5 1/2 weeks, roughly speaking: June 23, 2004
Lara smiles and coos and generally wins over everyone's heart, even as Papa grieviously ages! (13 pictures)
The last pictures from the inaugural three weeks of Lara!
From May 27 to June 1, feast your eyes on the growing Lara, and another trip to Echo Lake and back, wherein Marianne takes some art shots of the greenery and, well, the livestock! Also, on Memorial Day, the Bordens and Elizabeth Damron visit. And yes, on June 2, your photographer has headed back home to California, so we'll have to hope Kathi & Rainer get bitten by the website construction bug. (44 pictures)
This just in: Mike as biker and as author! May 10 and May 21, 2004.
Mike's looking good as a bicyclist for multiple schlerosis, and soon after his paper is presented at a geophysicists' meeting. (4 pictures)
Week Three in the Life of Lara, May 24-26, 2004
Lara sleeps, yes, but she also squirms and stares and generally looks adorable. Also: more shots of the sleeping grandparents, and, a nice anniversary picture of Kathi, Rainer and Lara. (20 pictures)
Bouncenette and family shots - I promise I will start taking fewer pictures and ruthlessly editing, so I don't put too many pictures online! (12 pictures)
Baby Shower, May 15, 2004
Lara basks in the glow of a dozen friends and neighbors who dropped by for the baby shower. An unexpected guest: Lara! (37 pictures)
Lara on Day 3, May 14, 2004
Lara comes home, we celebrate a double birthday party, and a robot mows the lawn. (20 pictures)
Just a few but priceless shots of some luminaries at the workshop out by Monterey. (4 pictures)
ADZPCTKO and Mojave Desert hikes, April 24-26, 2004
Down near the border we wish the thru-hikers well at the Annual Day Zero Pacific Crest Trail Kick-off, and then do a couple day hikes in the desert. (40 pictures)
Lunch at Green's and a visit to the Holocaust Memorial, April 18, 2004
Jorge, Miriam and I enjoyed lunch at Green's restaurant in the city before going to a piano trio concert. In between we visited the
Holocaust Memorial. (6 pictures)
An evening at the theater, April 17, 2004
Four of us journeyed to San Francisco to see Mamet's "Dr. Faustus", courtesy of Mary Jane's patron father. We also enjoyed dinner at a restaurant part owned by her father, Kokkari -- highly recommended! (3 pictures)
About 25 of us gathered in Milpitas to ring in the new year. Michael is Audrey's boyfriend and also a Zappa freak, so there was a gratifying lot of Zappa music played at the party. (21 pictures)
Christmas Day at La Selva
Cozy dinner enjoyed by a dozen or so of us, December 25 (9 pictures)
You need realplayer from www.real.one to view this. You can get a "free" 14 day trial, but they extract your credit card number first. And it's up to you to cancel before the 14 days is out, else they start charging $10/month.
Linda and Gary ride as Queen Mer and King Neptune in the Mardi
Gras parade. And Linda and Gary re-tile and renovate the guest bathroom in an
amazing effort!
Mom and Dad visit for 6 weeks in California, to help Marianne in her
recovery from a rough summer. In the meantime, Dad prepares for the hot
tub, and the hot tub materializes!
Mom, Dad and Marianne visit Tenaya Lodge, Wawona, the giant
Sequoias, Tuolomne Meadows in upper Yosemite (8,000 feet) and Ahwanee Lodge, in a short but full and wonderful trip to Yosemite. September, 2001.
... to help Marianne get ready for Mom
and Dad's visit. Linda cleans the whole house, Gary cleans the whole
front and back porches and does a ton of yard work and cleans the
garage to boot! The second day we visited Russian Ridge and Half Moon
Bay, and the third day we visited the art and crafts fair up in the
redwoods of Woodside.
Dad visits Marianne for a few weeks, to help her out in her nascent recovery of the difficult events of the summer. There are only 11 shots in this
set.
Note, this section is not completed, but is under construction
The fire trail is my favorite walk - out the front door and up the
hilly Winding Way and through the tree-filled canyon, and back. Or,
come back along some side streets.
John Wharton goes to Fiji
(small picture) to find bits of Mir, and John Markoff writes of it in
the 24 April 2001 N.Y. Times. This copy is part of troutlily's public
service media archive, since I don't trust I'll be able to find media
articles online in a few years without having to pay! Therefore,
we'll keep our own clippings.
Family from all over congregate on Houston: Kathi and Marianne from California,
Mom and Dad from Florida, and Christian, Jill and Finlay from across town
The Rotary fundraiser was February 24, 2001; Kathi went as Princess Grace, and I as
some vaguely elegant if plump socialite. In other excitement, we went down to Redwood
City Honda and test drove the 2001 Honda Insight, a hybrid gas/electric vehicle selling
for $20k and up.
Initial shots from Kathi's digital camera: Bunny Suit Kathi, the new
Maytag Neptune Energy Star Washing Machine (the only thing in the
house with more names than Annikin), and the girls all dressed up with
only a Rotary fundraiser to go to
Seagrasses and more in St. Andrew
Bay:Linda and Gary are active in the effort to preserve and
protect St. Andrew Bay and neighborhood. This page chronicles some of
the efforts.
Summer2000 at Echo Lake, August 2000
Visit the photos online, or
download all 40 jpg's as a zip file (3.1 MB for the zip file.)
