The Tar (La Brea) Pits in LA - January business trip - stayed for the weekend
Mammoth or Mastadon bones
Sinage out front of La Brea
Si and Family at his 2nd Birthday party - February
I'm 2 - how old are you?
Mom helps Si with Super Bowl in the background
Si and his cake
Grandma's 90th -The cake-age and Grandma - February
Doesn't look a day over 70 does she?
Data on the birthday girl
Tyrannasaurus Rex Skeleton at the Field Museum in Chicago - St Paddys Weekend - March
Dyno-Data on Sue's skeleton
Me in front of Sue at the Field Museum in Chicago
Erin and Tami at the restaurant we ate at with Afshin, Rekah and their son. Tami and I drove out to Chicago to visit Erin for St Paddy's weekend.
Afshin and his son. this was last March - they have another baby now.
Rekha and her son
Christina, Tim, Maria and Amy at a sushi place near Buddy Guy's Blues bar. None of them LIVE in Chicago - but they all just happened to be there at the same time I was.
ME at the sushi place not far from Buddy Guy's blues bar
Buddy Guy's blues bar in Chicago. Tami and Erin.
The odd approach to Yellowstone's North Entrance.
Arch at the North Entrance to Yellowstone. That line across the bottom of the picture is a crack in Jeff's windshield. Hopefully fixed by now... - Late March
Obligatory Park signage...
There were MANY bison
Dark water - white snow. Major roads tend to run alongside rivers in the Yellowstone region.
May I take your order?
Except for these two bighorn sheep, pretty much all we saw were bison.
Following Jeff into the mountains on skis...
It had just snowed and we were just about the only people to get up there on the freshly fallen stuff.
Hey buddy - clean your windshield?
Jeff's truck in front of the Ranger Station / Museum at Mammoth Hot Springs
Chauffer???
Two of the inhabitants of the Trom estate...
Morning routine at the Trom's. That's Felix in the highchair on the far left, Lydia opening the fridge, Scout next to her, Terra on this side of the island and Jeff at the sink.
Bears getting friendly at the Bear and Wolf Center in West Yellowstone
Jeff eyeing the wolves
Wovles at the Bear and Wolf Center in West Yellowstone
I was really there...
Now THAT'S a snowblower... West Yellowstone
You think YOU have big snow piles at the end of YOUR driveway...
Winding river receding into the distance - bison nibble at exposed grass along the river's edge - West edge of Yellowstone Park - just East of West Yellowstone (the town)
The ski/snowshoe trail back to West Yellowstone from the river
Running water.
Many of these in Montana...
A river runs by it (the road)
The gate on the road out of Troms.
On the long drive back to Ames from Bozeman
driving....
...and driving...
...and more driving...
...would you believe - even more driving?... it took roughly 15 hours on the way back - 1200 miles - you do the math.
Josiah, thrilled to be outdoors experiencing nature. Really. Thrilled. Saturday at the Iowa Arboretum SW of Ames. Easter weekend.
Brothers working the stairs
Pretty little creek running at the bottom of the hill
Just a stroll in the woods
Ben got to take a few pictures.
Another nice shot of the stream with the banks greening up.
Brothers lunchin'
Chomp chomp chomp
All these woods make us hungry
Still eatin
Why are we doing all the eating while Todd keeps walking around taking pictures?
Now Ben makes the wide loop around the picnic spot
not sure how to get past this spot
Another view of the windy stream flowing past the bottom of the hill.
...and we're off again.
Resting during the climb back to the top
One last look...
VEISHA! Underdog. Cool.
Close up of our hero
A float
My peeps at the parade.
Cy making the rounds
Dogwoods in bloom on VEISHA weekend.
Close up of the dogwood blooms
Some smart alec wrote on the bike path. I do like donuts, though...
Hippopotamus Knob Tree - in Brookside park.
Footbridge by Brookside Park
Bridge Hardware
Kari and her mangled husband David. He was apparently injured in a horrible "I can't stand not to make a face while getting my picture taken" accident.
Desert dome at the Doorly Zoo in Omaha - Last weekend in April
In the Desert Dome at the Zoo
Winkie the meerkat and friends.
Pink bird (he was supposed to be somewhere else but kept flying away?)
Doesn't he look boared? ;)
But wait - there's cactus!
I got winked at a lot in the desert dome
Pictures of people taking pictures
Penguins!
...and more Penguins.
Spooky lighting for the octopus.
Kari asking the octopus to smile. It was a little hard to tell if he was paying attention...
Dave and the Octopus (presumably making some horrible face at it)
Nemo!
Tunnel under the big aquarium
Fish cylinder (to show schooling behavior I think?)
Jelly fish tank (very cool looking). Only slow graceful movements allowed.
Jelly fish close up.
Sea turtle to the rescue! Up up and away...
The leafy sea horse
Weekend on Lake Charlevoix. At Scott and Robin's cabin. NE Michigan (not too far South of the UP)
New water toys
Karaoke gone bad. Yes I mean you, Scott and Sean.
Justin Northcutt - Karaoke victim.
Feeding time.
View South and East from Hope Island - Charlevoix - weekend after Memorial Day
East and North off Hope Island
Biking with Kevin and the Boys. We found out Josiah knew the sound HOO-ah and how to use it appropriately, as he said it each time we went over a big bump.
Kevin and his little men
Grandma's stuff in the moving truck - parked at Mom & Dad's in Des Moines
DM Art Festival - wire human sculpture
Wire sculptures at the Art Fest - dramatic evening sky backdrop
Downtown from the fest
Art Festers (so don't pick at it...)
Erin and her friend at the Art Fest
Bilboard above the parking lot behind Blues on Grand - evening of the Art Fest
Blues on Grand (BoG) - Evening of the art fest
BoG - Art Fest evening
Lake Okoboji from the park where they had the wedding
Mom and her boys on the train at Arnolds Park
Bumper cars at Arnold's Park
Si - not really liking this going around and around business. It was a little fast for his comfort
Having fun with the body boards at Arnolds Park
How you do it if you're small
Or this way works too
Nadas at the fair
Tami and co-worker at the Nadas
Buds at the Cafe' post pub crawl - Me with Karthik and Eric - and our loyal bartender J down on the end.
More Pub Crawlers - at the Corner Pocket - Erin, Vijay and Kari (different Kari)
Pub Crawlers - Sarah and Karthik
The family - gathering to eat and hang with Grandma and Chuck and Jo
Posing...
Sort of posiing
re-posing
Kari and her still goofy-looking husband - at the Life Light Fest Labor Day weekend near Sioux Falls
...it was muddy
really muddy
cool clouds over the fest
the main stage - and the crowd between us and it
Main Stage with the moon overhead
clouds overhead
cool clouds on the drive home to Coucil Bluffs
In spite of Dave's handicap, we let him drive
Clouds and sun on the way back to Ames
majestic billowy backlit cloud
water jet fountain in the new airport terminal in Detroit
the model car we reverse engineered and redesigned for ME 419 - the class I taught at ISU last fall
Fall trees around campus
Orangey!
orange tree - orange buliding - blue sky
More campus tree colors
Burning bush...
Fall against old buildings
New buildings on campus (ME 419 was held in the near one with the curvy window wall)
Engineering Water Tower
A tree that can't decide whether to turn red or stay green...
half defoliated tree in the front yard
Grape vine turning colors
light coming through the woods near home
the Woods
brilliant oranges
Deck building Dad, buliding the super-porch at Kevin and Lisa's
More deck building
ISU football game against Nebraska
record crowd - but we lost
Vermont week of Thanksgiving. My driver (Maria) approacheth... We took a day trip from Burlington VT to Montreal, which (get this, kinda funny actually) is in a whole different COUNTRY! No - I'm not kidding... And yet - only a two hour drive away.
Some kind of church in Montreal. Near the waterfront where we parked.
Cool building - Montreal
Horse 'n buggy - they like to preserve some of the old-schooli-ness in Montreal
Montreal - Notre Dame Cathedral
Funky wooden staircase to the bully pulpit - Montreal - Notre Dame Cathedral
The altar zone - Montreal - Notre Dame Cathedral
Detail of the pulpit - Notre Dame Cathedral - Montreal
Chapel behind the main cathedral - Notre Dame Cathedral - Montreal
Towards the back of the church - Notre Dame Cathedral - Montreal
Funky stairway to the bully pulpit - Notre Dame Cathedral - Montreal
Stained glass windows - Notre Dame Cathedral - Montreal
Pagoda looking towers on buildings in China Town
Main entrance to China Town
playbills papering construction walls in China Town
Exiting china town
Museum of Modern Art funky window
Mall across the street from the MoMA
The Newest Teske - Just before Christmas - I'm getting more uncle-y all the time
Grandpa and Granddaughter
GREATGrandma and GREATGranddaughter
Checking out the gifts
The Christmassy corner of the livingroom
Testing out Kari's nylon covered nose plucker
Look - presents!
Kevin revelling in his loot
Now I can connect my GPS to my new computer (which doesn't support RS-232 connections)
Nice sweater
Bob the Builder! Alright!
What IS it GrandPA?
Grandma digging in
Looking on with anticipation...
Grandma enjoying her gift
I think it's a CD, Dave...
"Oh, yeah... - it IS a CD", spake Dave, as he examined the song list.
Dave - shirt styling - (Hey - he's nearly been cured of that facial thing!)
Hmmmm
IT'S a BAG!
Are you SLEEPING? GRANDpa?
What is it?
Cool! My own do-it-yourself Hummer
Does it go FAST, Grandma?
Reloading? (but it's a DIGITAL camera)
Cocoa dusted, chocolate crusted, espresso beans - from Stamm
The family - occupying the livingroom, preparing to open gifts Christmas afternoon.
Cards decorating the mirror over the fireplace.
Had such a good year, I'm just beside myself...
See you next year!
