Mardi Gras 2007
About twenty people dropped by at various times. Jambalaya
and red beans and rice were popular; I could have made twice
as much! (Note to self for next year.) Lee brought by two
types of corn bread, which was a last-minute inspired
seredipitous and very welcome and tasty addition. Sharon
brought by lovely fresh veggies to counter all the sausages
we were consuming (in the form of jambalaya and red beans
and rice). The Feders brought delicious cakes to augment
the official King Cake I ordered from kingcake.com, a New
Orleans bakery. I think that sums up most of the food ...
you can see where my focus is ...
Geetha took all the following pictures; you can detect
her careful framing and composition. These are just a
selection - I deleted the ones in which I look particularly
fat. The pictures have renewed my passionate desire to
lose twenty pounds!
Lee reclines in the blue orange peel chair
Party in motion
Nika with spinning-wand-thing, and me chowing down
Susan may not forgive me for putting this one on the web. Huajeong is Miriam's current housemate; unfortunately she is going back to her professorial post in Korea at the end of February.
Art and Sharon, two nearby neighbors
Peach branches put into service as Mardi Gras decoration. The peach buds are getting fuzzy, and I have hope they will bud out. I brought home the peach branches from the Master Gardener training class, where we pruned fruit trees down at the Emma Prusch Farm & Orchard's high density orchard. Ask me about fruit trees if you want to hear more than you bargained on! I am very enthusiastic about fruit trees.
Contemplative Nika
Eleonora, visiting professor at Stanford who hails from Bologna, Italy
Noch ein mal
No idea who we're peering up at ...
King Cake lathered in purple, gold and green icing (these are tradional, mandated colors, which represent variously power and luck and so on)
Jorge mysteriously sports large (Asian? Cuban?) straw hat, and a gargantuan peace sign as a necklace - quite appropriate in these days of Troop Surge in Iraq
Carlos and Jacqui - Carlos is wearing Art's wig, thereby multiplying the hair on his head by several orders of magnitude! I say this only since he himself laughingly pointed it out!
Carlos liked the spinning-wand-thing that Lee brought over to use as the scepter for the Mardi Gras Queen
If this wig is suited better to anyone than Geetha, I would be amazed!
This time with the flash
Susan, Miriam and moi laughing about something in the hallway
Newlyweds Bill and Sharon!
Jorge steadfastly wore his peace sign throughout
Marianne Mueller, mrm@sonic.net
Last modified: Fri Feb 23 07:24:15 PST 2007
Lee reclines in the blue orange peel chair
Party in motion
Nika with spinning-wand-thing, and me chowing down
Susan may not forgive me for putting this one on the web. Huajeong is Miriam's current housemate; unfortunately she is going back to her professorial post in Korea at the end of February.
Art and Sharon, two nearby neighbors
Peach branches put into service as Mardi Gras decoration. The peach buds are getting fuzzy, and I have hope they will bud out. I brought home the peach branches from the Master Gardener training class, where we pruned fruit trees down at the Emma Prusch Farm & Orchard's high density orchard. Ask me about fruit trees if you want to hear more than you bargained on! I am very enthusiastic about fruit trees.
Contemplative Nika
Eleonora, visiting professor at Stanford who hails from Bologna, Italy
Noch ein mal
No idea who we're peering up at ...
King Cake lathered in purple, gold and green icing (these are tradional, mandated colors, which represent variously power and luck and so on)
Jorge mysteriously sports large (Asian? Cuban?) straw hat, and a gargantuan peace sign as a necklace - quite appropriate in these days of Troop Surge in Iraq
Carlos and Jacqui - Carlos is wearing Art's wig, thereby multiplying the hair on his head by several orders of magnitude! I say this only since he himself laughingly pointed it out!
Carlos liked the spinning-wand-thing that Lee brought over to use as the scepter for the Mardi Gras Queen
If this wig is suited better to anyone than Geetha, I would be amazed!
This time with the flash
Susan, Miriam and moi laughing about something in the hallway
Newlyweds Bill and Sharon!
Jorge steadfastly wore his peace sign throughout