Isabelle Josephine Wilson
Our newest member of the family entered the world today at 10:31 am on St. Patricks Day, March 17, 2008. Isabelle Josephine weighed in at 8lbs, 14 oz and 'stood' about 20 inches tall. Phaedra is doing quite well, having had a reasonably easy labor, if delivering a...
Goodbye to Dick Burke
The founder of Trek Bicycles, Richard "Dick" Burke, died Monday at age 73 from complications after heart surgery. Burke started Trek in 1976 and saw it become one of cycling's all-time success stories, helped in no small part by Trek being the bike on which Lance...
Hummingbird Video
I finally made my first web video using Windows Movie Maker. It's really quite simple, but I've always enjoyed photography, and put off playing with "moving pictures". Last month, we were fortunate enough to watch a hummingbird in Napa Valley and get both some still...
Getting back on the bike.
I signed up for Bicycle Tour of Colorado a couple of weeks ago but I'm not sure I could ride 50 flat miles, so I decided to start riding again with some regularity. Rode about 45 last weekend and paid dearly, so kept it under 30 miles today. The streets were sloppy...
Awesome day in the backyard.
Not sure what happened yesterday. Maybe the birds heard it might snow, maybe they heard 40 degree temps are arriving this week, or maybe it was just our new hawk moved on... But whatever it was, we had more birds in the yard than probably any day since we moved back...
New Back Yard Visitor
This morning as we started our morning walk with Biggs, we were startled to see a hawk fly from the rear of our yard higher into a tree on the Country Financial land. He sat for 45 minutes or more watching us and especially Biggs. We assumed h/she was someone young,...
Birding in Napa
One of the highlights of our California trip last week was some fantastic birding. While Tina and friends tasted wines from several Napa vineyards, I walked the grounds looking for birds to photograph. I added several new species to my life list such as the Acorn and...
700 plus pictures to sort
We got back from a wonderful week in California and Nevada. Wine tasting in Napa, Stage 2 finish of the Tour of California in Sacramento and a couple of days in Vegas were the reasons for the trip, and there were several additions that made the trip magical. I was...
Off to California
Sunday starts the 2008 racing season, at least in this country. I didn't count the races in Tour Down Under nor the Tour of Qatar (won by Tom Boonen). Pretty soon, there won't be an off-season, just winter trips to warmer climates. And if you count cycle cross, there...
Barred Owl getting ready to hunt
About a week ago, I spotted a Barred Owl in Crepeau and was able to get 'fairly' close for a picture. Last night a neighbor who knew of my birding interest called saying the the owl was 25 feet from his back deck. Although the light was bad, I was able to shoot a...