JANUARY 2009

Class of '57 Columbia High Classmates, all still in their 60's 

Our Dinner Group

Tom, Jean, Jan, Ev, Walker, Diane, Larry, Jill

Back over the pass, first of many trips this year

We watch Brandon's volleyball game, he is 4th from left

The spectators, Jean, Levi, and Margaret

We are heading back home, Rattlesnake Mountain, 3500 ft. near Richland

Now we can see Mt. Rainer (14,410 ft.) in view at Ryegrass Pass West of the Columbia River

Approaching Cle Elum, we see Mt. Stewart, 9,415 feet - Climbed later this year by Nephew Justin

Dropping down from Snoqualmie Pass, 3022 feet.

FEBRUARY

Visit from a giant spider

Jean starts recovering from foot surgery

Anne in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - Sir Andrew Aguecheek

 Photograph by a parent

February Snow

Jean and Dr. Doug, D. D. M.

Terry, Scott and Donna visiting at Marianne & Ken's

Rachel and Anne run for cover - not photo ready

Jean vacuum's despite foot

The Seattle Flower and Garden Show, Second largest show in the USA

It's Heidi, our former neighbor who designed this garden

...and she forced into bloom some of Tom's trilliums, a red one just above the tag

MARCH

It's Guitar Hero in Richland:  Levi, Trevor and Brandon

Levi on drums, Jean on couch (in foot surgery recovery mode)

Brandon Rocks!

Back home in Kirkland, a late snow in our neighborhood park

APRIL

Native Trillium in our neighborhood woods in full bloom

Marianne and Sam, Adah and Eli read

We all visit Three Cedars school in Bellevue where Laura is the Preschool teacher

Levi, Margaret, Brandon, Sam, Marianne and Ada ready for the walk

To the park... Margaret Ada, Marianne, Levi, Sam, Brandon

Into the park - Sam, Eli, Adah and Alane

Laura doing an activity with all the primary kids

At Three Cedars, the preschool group walks everyday, usually to the park

MAY

The same Trillium in the woods - now into its red phase

It's a sprinkling of apple bloom petals in our backyard

At the beginning of a hike up to Poo Poo Point above Issaquah

Tom & Laura where paragliders take off, Issaquah in the distance and Lake Sammamish

Resting.  Laura and Nels live near this area

Matthews Brothers Tom & Terry visit an antique store at the Fairhaven area in Bellingham, WA

It's an 1860's parlor table we are looking at, only $4800.  The Matthews brothers, E. P. and Alonzo, our 3rd cousins, founded the business and it was in the family until 1913.

Photo from the Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee, all the wood work done by the Matthews Brothers.  They also did furniture and woodwork for Frank Lloyd Wright.

JUNE

Trip to Spokane with Adah, Eli and Sam

All excited for Children's Museum

It's Sam's Birthday, he enjoys the river system

Eli is a water table engineer

Adah enjoys a visit to the tropics.

Time to go back home...

Birthday party time

THE DINO TRIP with Levi & Brandon

We start in Richland, Margaret and the Concord Grapes

Brandon greets a sheep at the Oregon Trail Museum in Baker City

The view toward Baker City from the museum 

Brandon and Levi stand with the pioneers

Pioneer portraits of Brenda? and Levi

On to Craters of the Moon National Monument

Jean in one of the extensive lava tube caves in the area

Brandon climbing over rocks

Levi at the same location, where the roof has fallen in

It's The Spike (replica) at Golden Spike National Historic Site near Promontory, Utah

The cross tie with the plaque is where the spike was driven 140 years ago

The Union Pacific No. 119 pulls up to meet the Jupiter (Central Pacific No. 60)

The replicas together...

The real ones in 1869

The Golden Spike driven again in this reenactment

Jean and Audrey compare surgery notes - Donna May is putting lunch together

Levi at Thanksgiving Point Prehistoric Life Museum

Look out for the ancient shark!

Brandon and Levi pitch in to bring down the Mammoth

Dinosaur museum in Price, Utah

At the Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry Museum out in the desert

Another predator...

Brandon and Levi put a dinosaur skull together

Brandon and Levi on trail safety duty

Levi touches a dinosaur bone in the rock

On the trail

Now which way would you turn?  We went through the rain storm later

Hmm, this is not the next motel I hope

Brandon and Tom take a hike in Arches National Park

Brandon and Tom both took this picture.

Question:  Can you find the flaw in this photo?  It's been edited to add Tom.

"Walking in their footsteps..."  Levi and Brandon pointing to what is thought to be Allosaurus footprints at Copper Ridge, north of Arches National Park

Brandon and Levi try to match the dinosaur smile outside the Vernal Utah Museum

Yep, it's another prehistoric life museum, this one at BYU, Provo

The Giant Ground Sloth is the one in the middle 

Brandon's 3-D tee shirt... but you need colored glasses... red left, blue right

Brandon and Levi walk on water... it's the Salt Flats under water

Tom's panorama - click to see the person walking

Zahooz game place in Boise Idaho, its a long way to our next motel in Cambridge Idaho...

... that ended up being a room in an old trailer, we called the place we had reserved and told him we were arriving that  afternoon.  But he gave the room to someone else! With some help, got this at the Gateway Cafe and Inn... down towards the Snake River.

8 by 10 room, picture taken from bathroom door... They did accommodate us and 

their Cafe was nice the next morning for breakfast.

After breakfast was to continue the drive down to the Snake River and North to Hells Canyon Dam where our jet boat was waiting.

Bumpy but fun ride...

Levi and I went with the others on a hike to see the roughest section

Then it was back to the car...

and the long trip through Oregon to Richland.

The next day cherry picking with Margaret in Kennewick near Richland

Bing cherries, ready to pick

Before leaving for home, we watch Cool Desert Nights car parade in Richland