nuptuals

kristi and bennett finally get hitched! friends and family gather at the botanical gardens


lisa made wonderful cakes

bill and lisa sit one out, as the band stella played old favs

mike, amaya and daniel find limited shade

birthdays and lyle lovett

daniel and mike had birthdays this week, so we met near the penitentiary for lisa's chocolate cake with caramel & pine nuts. soon after, lyle lovett played in the botanical gardens.

josh at the knitting factory

a bunch of us biked to see josh ritter in fabulous form, after opener andrew bird stoked the crowd with his mad whistling skillz.

pre-func: $1 PBRs at donny mac's trailer park cuisine

pre-fat: sweet potato and chili cheese fries

we heart josh!! he played past curfew and had fellow-idahoans whipped to a frenzy

small-world stories in rainy-town

i flew to seattle to visit anthony, a friend from my microsoft days. he was a reuters/white house staff photographer i hired to help our microsoft newspaper. i would often accompany him pretending to help, one of our last shoots was photographing john mccain. how odd that years later, anthony was dropping mccain onto a soccer field out of a chinook helicopter in kabul. that's small-world story #1.

this mag did a spread of anthony (far rt.) and his war pics. thanks to the war, he had to switch from civilian photographer back to a lieutenant colonel.

i got knish from my favorite knishery (knishaurant?) at the market

'ghostbusters' playing at the freemont outdoor theater

ballard loves pizza. i think.

a long sunday ride started at gassworks park


this elderly woman wouldn't sell. nope, she sure wouldn't.

earlier rains brought about some sink holes and slides, cutting off our route

what's on the other side of the sink hole? stupid people know... a slurpee!

post-ride with the boys. matt (r) is a photo buddy of anthony's. matt and i found out we lived in the same dorms in paris years ago, and we know the same people there on boulevard saint michele. that's small-world story #2. i love coinky-dinks.

weekend in mccall

i went camping at ponderosa park. while there, i visited pam, scott, mark, chris & lynette who were staying in mccall
my neighbors were a group of octogenarian square dancers. big skirts.

this was lynette's first official weekend of recovery. i found her napping at pams, she napped the whole time when she wasn't on the boat or eating soup.

mark and scott ready the vessel for launch

boat, dude, dog, beer

laying of the hands... pam's powerful ju-ju isn't just for peoples

dogs wanting pam's stew

one sock two sock pink sock blue sock, geez lynette

almost mama marcy at java