APRIL 2011

Etta Cameron and Great Uncle Tom - Photo by her grandmother Donna.

Also by Donna, Cousin Brandon training Etta how to use an iPod.

"This iPod is cool!" says Etta. 

Jean with Etta.

Grandkids Rachel, Levi, Anne, and Brandon.

Margaret & Trevor.

Margaret and Etta.

Etta bugging her father.

Nels & Laura

Anne & Rachel at work at home, Easter afternoon.

Easter dinner is ready!

Rachel's Easter Cake!  She made the eggs but don't eat them.

Spring is here - and a little sun in our backyard.

Rachel presents her 8th grade project to parents and guests at Three Cedars School.

Her project was pastery making, especially cakes - this wedding cake was her final project and was served that evening.

Real flower decorations... very tasty cake!

Our native trillium are very healthy this year.

MARCH 2011

Grandma and Grandpa are here!

Sam test's out Bryan's marble track gift.

Sam and lady Liberty.

Eli and the Buffalo Nickel.

Adah and Sacajawea dollar.

Railroad crew and maintance equipment downtown Sprague.

Adah's headband used as a mask while vacuuming.

Waiting for the school bus, goodby Grandma & Grandpa.

Tom's favorite view of the Vantage bridge on the Columbia.

View north of the Vantage bridge while under construction before Wanapum Dam raised the river level.

Taken in April, 1964.

Bobcat photo taken by a neighbor south of us on the edge of the woods.  They are rarely seen.

More Bobcats!  Actually Mark Twain Elementary School Bobcats before school on crazy hair day.

Deer on the school district property a couple of block away.

Rachel & Anne (?) playing Skip Bo card game.

The 7 blueberry (all different), 25 raspberry (5 kinds), and 100 strawberry (4 kinds) plants arrive during a rainy* week.  I photographed, Jean planted. Hey...she ordered them!

*normal weather

FEBRUARY 2011

Jean in our local woods.

We have a break in the weather, Jean picking up apple tree clippings.

Tom doing major trimming on the other 80+ year old gravenstein apple tree.

A filburt or hazelnut flower... about 1/16" in size.  We have two old trees in our back yard.

Baby Catherine. Her parents and grandparents came for dinner.  

Nora, sister of Catherine. Her grandparents were on our Italy tour and were visiting Kirkland from Minnesota.   

Ice in the atmosphere - this kind of rainbow is called a "sun dog".

Jean in the woods, this time in snow.

Same bridge as in the first February photo above.

JANUARY 2011

Jean on one of our early morning walks in the neighborhood woods. 

Old burnt cedar leaning on a maple. 

Pilliated woodpecker working on a power/telephone pole marked for replacement.

Card with grandson Brandon Patton and a camel.

Winter drive to Eastern Washington over Snoqualmie Pass (3022 ft  - 921 m).

Further snowfall by mid April made for a total snowfall of at least 460 inches.

We attend a Rick Steves "Europe through the Back Door" reunion with our friends and Italy guide Robin (on right) in Edmonds, about 40 minutes from Kirkland.

Blog for Italy tour - http://bekihicol.blogspot.com/

Another walk in the woods.

Get together at our house, from left Trevor, Margaret, Nels, Laura, and Brandon.

Laura, Rachel, Levi and Jean.

Brandon has all five tops going!