October '07 Trip (IA and CA)

My uncle Bill and his three dogs on his farm near Bonaparte, IA

Feeding time for the cows on Bill's farm

Tony and Bill discussing the sweet potatoes from Tony's garden

A mammoth tooth uncle Tony found (about a food long)

One of many hand-crafted cases holding artifacts uncle Tony has found



These two deer skulls were found in the woods interlocked just like this. The two bucks had gotten caught with each other while fighting and died trapped to each other.

One of Tony's pieces of woodwork, this one above the door in his museum

Kris Pruden, Paul Ingram, and myself, toasting at the Opsware party in Palo Alto

October '07 Trip (AR, MN, and IL)

I was in Conway, AR for work for a couple days, near a town that was literally called "Toad Suck"

Visiting Aunt Jeanette and Cousin Liam in Minnesota, this is on a drive down the Mississippi from the Wisconsin side

n LARK Toys in MN

Setset over the Mississippi

Cousin Liam and Cocoa the dog

Chicago

Chow, Paula, and Jasper

Nick, Chow, and Nat, checking out the essential oils

Reich's going away party (he moved from Chicago to Monterey, CA), congratulations John!

Reem and Reich at Reich's going away party (note Reem's "Unleash the Reich" shirt)

Please don't order this dish if you can't take the heat (Amitabul is a great vegan Korean place in Chicago, by the way)

Mary (proudly sporting the Food Fight shirt) and P. Dallas at Alice and Friends

Nat, Mary, Nick, Vanessa, Pete, Chow, me, and Matt

San Diego + Joshua Tree National Park

From Opsware's annual conference in San Diego


In HollywoodCousin John Rafferty and I on top of Ryan Mtn. in Joshua Tree

One of the biggest wind farms in the world

Portland in September

Six buckets of Voodoo Donuts donated for the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event

A donut and a couple marshmallows being roasted over the fire in Greg's front yard

Greg and Anna in Washington Park

The cousins' farm down in Canby, OR

Looking over the Columbia river between WA and OR to Mt. Hood

At the tail end of a wedding reception

After the wedding, a run to Voodoo donut

Greg juggling in his front yard

Leaf on the ground over by Oak Bottom park

August in the East

Been slacking on posting pictures lately... here's a bunch from August in the East

Nice looking food at my folks' place in PA

Disc golf w/ John Miller at Prompton State Park near Honesdale

Jason Markzon, Rachel, and Dan playing guitar in the back, camping in Delaware Water Gap

At the Delaware Water Gap

Storey, Ravi, and I at a bar in NYC

Aaron Baer in Winston-Salem, NC

Aaron and Jenny on the motorcycle

Nate and Stacey's dog, P-Diddy
(I somehow failed to get a picture of Nate and Stacey when I was visiting)

One of the old locks on the Lehigh River at Hickory Run State Park in PA

Dan Rocking Out in the Infirmary