Echo Lake Favorites from June 2011

Girls seriously outnumber the boys. Rainer and Liam, 2. Three sisters, their mother, two daughters of one of the sisters, a friend of another sister's and HER daughter: 8 distaff.

Photographers presented in order of age.

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Ella the Photographer:

  2. Friendly Allie the Alligator hanging out on the paddleboat

  3. perspective

  4. Ella learns the action shot

  5. and the cameo

  6. this series really surprised me when I saw it - I really like it

Lara the Photographer:
  1. laboring mightily

  3. peace sign, the self portrait

and from Marianne:
  1. The lamp post was working in early June. By late June, not. We need to jiggle some part of the electronics, the light bulb wasn't burned out. Anyway it was beautiful while we had it.

  2. I like turning on the porch lights at night

  3. Secret revealed. Mom and I deloused one piece of furniture since the place we bought it was a rat's nest of a house of two rather grimy looking farmers out in the back country. We dusted for bed bugs and did overall fumigation to boot, then let it sit amid chemicals overnight under a tarp. I then washed it but good and let it air out for a week before taking it down to the basement. Now you know. The secret is out. But I assure you, there will be no bed bugs.

  4. Ella has arrived!

  5. Lara has arrived!

  6. Linda has arrived! Gets to work cleaning the bathroom furniture!

  7. monkey

  8. I can't decide which picture of Linda and the girls in the rowboat I like better so I am going to waste bandwidth and put both of them up.

  10. peace man

  11. monkey do

  12. little princess

  13. little angel

  14. With gloves, Cinderlara hauls wood to the cottage.

  15. Peace is popular. It must be some new kid's thing or maybe they do it on Glee or maybe it's a German thing.

  16. Buttermilk Falls

  18. taking a break on the somewhat steep trail up the falls

  19. Kathi is pretending she can't hear Ella demanding to be carried

  20. wading in the water

  21. I took about a thousand pictures of the falls but I'll spare you

  22. ferns grow everywhere

  23. Mood Shot(tm)

  24. We all wore pink so that in case anyone got lost in the woods it would be easy to find him or her. Or just to look charming.

  25. Slim Jim's are as popular as peace

  26. Art Shot(tm)

  27. We made it! Now we cross the bridge and go down the other side of the falls.

  28. This is pretty much what it looked like most of the time, going down.

  29. Or this.

  30. I admit I asked her to pose but she was already reclining in the leaves and moss.

  31. little ella in the woods

  33. In flight

  34. Liam is enraptured

  35. sometimes you get lucky. Damn fine shot if I do say so myself.

  37. Taughannock Falls near Ithaca

  38. peace

  39. Lara being asked to join the group shot

  40. the pixie has other plans

  41. rock climbing

  42. protests in vain. I should really not take her picture when she says no.

  43. Well at least someone remembered to put up a peace sign

  44. The Great Garage Extravaganza

  45. sorting

  46. and relocating

  47. Ella helps Marianne spray paint the table. We scraped it first.

  48. Liam with red table

  49. cowgirl

  50. cowgirl fisherman

  51. Many a tiny fish were caught with these there nets

  52. it is very difficult to get a shot of Liam that does not come out blurred - somehow he is always moving

  53. Fishing at night with Rachel, Sue's daughter

  54. Linda, Rachel and Sue

  55. Mom, Linda and I went for a walk

  57. Liam would stare and point at the fish for hours, left to his own devices

  58. three grinning fishermen and their catch

  59. Kathi, Rainer and Liam in the paddleboat

  60. getting ready to test the waters

  61. Ella is still getting the hang of it. After a couple days she was swinging merrily away (but still demanding to be pushed).

  62. boy with begonia

  63. elegant surfer

  64. delight

  67. Liam on his own

  69. "well you could quit taking pictures and come give me a hand"

  70. Statue of the Lady of the Lake

  71. serious water gun action

  72. Liam gets in the action

  73. Mom in lake

  74. stories

  75. Pouring water into lake (from bucket, watering can, large plastic cup ...) was very popular

  76. Cinderlara on her own started scraping the monkey swing so we could paint it

  77. Lara soon figured out it was easier to scrape the monkey swing while sitting in a chair. Smart cookie.

  78. frog eggs

  79. everyone groaned when I got out the camera.

  80. New outfit from Grandma - they went shopping and the girls picked out the clothes. Fabulous posture here.

  81. Ella's new outfit. The green vase of yellow lily pad flowers represents about half of what we picked when out in the paddleboat.

  82. boy being adorable eating melon

  85. onopoly as Ella calls her favorite game

  86. some early morning

  89. picture of pink truck is for ella

  90. last minute painting

  91. Next time we'll wear long-sleeved "paint tshirts" and gloves

  92. Funny Tree

  93. Counting me, 5 photographers of 3 kids on tree

  96. finally someone remembers to make the peace sign

  97. this time with the aunts

  98. Laura and I go for a walk just before they leave

  99. I had Lara pose in various "nature" shots ... very silly of me

  100. Lara with lichen

  101. another lichen tree

  102. Lara and I didn't want to say good by

  103. Marcia, Fred and Diane come over for quiche

  104. another early morning

  107. Mom going through photo albums

  108. we had some good sailing weather once in a while

  109. Lady Liberty sets off

  111. Flotilla

  113. Luminaria set out the evening after the boat parade in memory of people not with us this year

Marianne Mueller
Last modified: July 8, 2011