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Daily Life 2010
the FAR EAST (Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia)
Ca-Li-FOR-ni-A! (It's a Nation State)
Daily Life 2009
more AMERICA (Wisconsin; Seattle; Twin Cities; KC; Vegas; etc.)
Entertaining Sites Around LOS ANGELES
CENTRAL and SOUTH AMERICA
American SOUTHWEST
Aloha HAWAII Mahalo!
EUROPE (Germany; Spain; Portugal; the Pyrenees; and Morocco too)
MEXICO (Guanajuato and Michoacán; Baja; the Yucatan)
NEW ZEALAND (cut short...I'm going back!)
CHINA and TIBET (yikes)
Amazing INDIA
Down SOUTH in the USofA
the EAST COAST of the US and CANADA
Daily Life 2008
Daily Life 2007
Daily Life 2006
Daily Life 2005
Daily Life 2004
Daily Life 2001-2003 (in my Gray People phase)
Gran'ma's photos
Bio-Pix
L&H
neither here nor there
A Very Senior Year Abroad




'10 February
Home for the month before Spring travel kicks in.
'10 January
2010...Can you even Believe it?!
Kaitlin's Neighborhood
Flowers she knows so far. And Spiders! (mostly Internet Pix)
'10 Lovin' The Movies:)
Open for contributions! (Here in 2009 for a while too...)

Make a list of the movies that meant something to you when you first saw them and that have held up over time. Then send me a picture or image you'd like to go with your list or I'll choose for you. Check out the others. It's Fun!




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February 6

Another set of movies I've seen recently...trying to get through the important Oscar candidates. Here's the first and the second set.

Precious: Mo'Nique's performance was simply astounding. It seems the movie might be just too overwhelmingly sad, but not so.

Crazy Heart: Good, and Jeff Bridges was certainly very good, but for me not craaazy good.

Coraline: I caught it on video and it was so imaginative, so well crafted, so engaging, and pretty dang scary.

UP: I saw UP when it came out in the middle of the year and still carry around those characters with me - mostly the kid and the dogs. Everybody loves this movie.

The Last Station: Helen Mirren was quite wonderful but what I float back to is the music and the scenery, and the history lesson. Oh Mother Russia, sing us your song.

February 5

Sharon, Nancy A, and I met for lunch to bid Bon Voyage to Nancy D who is taking a year's sabbatical, renting a huge and fabulous home in Hope Ranch in Santa Barbara.

Oh goodie! A new place to visit!!

More cuteness from yesterday. The moms and the babies had an outing and I got the girls and we had FUN! They were both utterly charming and so well-behaved...I didn't tsst-tsst or waggle my finger even once.

February 4

No way In The World I could wait until Valentine's Day with this one. Who could? You couldn't either.

Top left is our lunch in the shape of the letter V for Valentine and a heart for Valentine's Day. This is our second collage!

Kaitlin and Lilly in their sister outfits.

Can't resist those baby hands. She has become so much more purposeful with her movements - grabbing, kicking, smiling from across the room, and standing. She looves to stand.

February 3

Bought the ticket...ready to GO! March in Kauai. Oh lucky dog me and don't think I don't know it!

Kauai in: 2009 and 2007 and 2006

February 2

Brought to us by Nancy Artz, here we have our Sandy, her daughter China, China's husband Doug, China and Doug's firstborn Lucas (of the melt me eyes), and handsome second son Everet. Ahhh,

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