Happy Birthday, Marla! And I must say…“What a beautiful baby!” It is easy to see she has a happy spirit, very intelligent, generous, tenacious, confident, full of energy and charisma. Wow…that is SOME baby! She is looking elegant at a Denver Art Museum fundraiser…
This Valentine’s Day card is too big to send so I’ll wish you the very best for a great day of love and happiness. And to Marla some words from an Elton John song…“I hope you don’t mind that I put…
I’ve always loved live music! This is Marla at a Rolling Stones concert. I’ve been fortunate to see U2 and The Ramones in a small club, James Brown, David Bowie, The Jackson 5 (Michael Jackson lifted Marla onto the stage from our first row table to…
The Thanksgiving Holiday for me is a magnified reflection on all the many blessings in my life. I have been very lucky to have reached an age where almost every day is a day of Thanksgiving and of supreme gratefulness. I am very happy and thankful to have Marla as…
Marla and I are celebrating our 55th wedding anniversary today. To be perfectly honest, I really can’t grasp the magnitude of this special anniversary for both of us! 55! Yes it’s a big number…but filled with love, a wonderful family, triumphs and trials, personal…
This is the first in a series of photographs which hold a special and very personal meaning for me. Each has a unique story to tell and make me happy. I chose to start which photos close to home. In the future I’ll post powerful photos from some…
I’ve thought a lot about the many things I am thankful for during this Thanksgiving Holiday. I could write a novel with long lists of grateful thoughts of the past year. I love the quote from Torstein Hagen, Chairman of Viking Cruises, “When you really philosophize on…
Each January I go over the previous year’s images to find what resonated with me the most. I edited hundreds of photos to find the ones which grabbed me emotionally. It was a fun lookback as well as a difficult project. I begin with an August shot of…
As the Thanksgiving Holiday approaches, I am so grateful for the care Marla is receiving for heart failure and her shining and beautiful spirit. Yesterday she went back in the hospital because of fluid build-up in the lungs making her breathing difficult. I hope she will be home soon…
Years ago I started what our family called, the “9-year-old trip”. The idea was to immerse our grandchildren in the favorite places, family, and history of my side of the family in the San Francisco Bay Area. When my Mom was alive she was a big…