Long Weekend at the Outer Banks

 The beach was one block away from the house

 The beach house where we stayed

 Don't let the strings get mixed up!

Carlsbad Caverns

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time Well Spent in Midland, TX

Jack rabbit!

Permian Basin Petroleum Museum

My Dad's windmill

Waiting for go-carts

 

My Dad took us to an old Apache site. We looked for holes in the rock where corn was ground. My Grandfather used to come here looking for arrowheads; guess he got them all.

 

 

 

Watering station at the ranch

 

He said he liked the onion rings, except for the white things inside.

 

Craig got his chicken fried steak

Our Christmas in California (3 months later)

 Arthur

Martti carving the ham

Cooper with his catnip sardine-on-a-string

Our hotel lobby in Union Square, SF

Also in San Francisco are the Legion of Honor and de Young Museums. We saw two exhibits: a Japanese woodcut exhibit and an exhibit of impressionist paintings from the Musee D'Orsay in Paris.

Woodcutting is incredibly difficult. Each color represents a separate block of wood that has been carved and readied for printing. Notice the rain; that particular block of wood had to be mostly carved away leaving small slivers of wood, which produce the lines of rain.

In this exhibit we saw the 36 Views of Fuji. Also in the exhibit was the West's response: the 36 Views of the Eifel Tower.

This was also a later example of the West's response
to the Japanese style of woodcutting.

de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park, SF

A good selection of the impressionist masters were on exhibit at the de Young.

Rousseau is a new found favorite

There were several other areas of the de Young open with different exhibits.

Telegraph Hill, SF; looking for wild parrots

Marin Headlands looking back at the city

A parting glass of vino in Sausalito (SF in background)

Carolina Beach

At the Shuckin' Shack

Carolina Beach Day Two

We went to Carolina Beach State Park to see venus fly traps and found diving pelicans instead.

 North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher

 Rare albino alligator

Turtles sunning themselves