Nicky and Stephen, Met June 8, 1998, Married June 8, 2000

Sidewalk market at Pier 39 in San Francisco.

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Today we got an opportunity to experiment with one of the new toys my wonderful wife gave to me for Christmas. The original image was taken through an infrared filter and superimposed with a normal image in Photoshop. A few corrections here and there and voila!

We chose this particular park because of its dense canopy, which makes for great infrared photos. However, we haven't been there since Hurricane Wilma hit 2 months ago. The foliage has really been thinned out and many of the trees are gone.

Oh.. and Happy New Year!

 

The City and County Building of Denver, Colorado.

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We spent the second weekend of December in Colorado for Stephen's sister's wedding. Stephen spent most of his childhood growing up in the Denver area and I had never been there before. It was fun seeing Stephen's old house, high school and the first newspaper where he worked. We saw tons of deer, buffalo and bighorn sheep.

The snow covered mountains were awesome. Growing up in Virginia, the Shenandoah Mountains were nearby. As his step-dad Ron put it so well, those Virginia mountains are anthills. I was impressed.

The wedding was in Salida, a small town about 3 hours southwest of Denver. It is nestled in a valley surrounded by the beautiful mountains. A gorgeous location for the wedding. Joanne made a beautiful bride. We wish her and Tracy a lifetime of love and happiness.

We ate at the world famous Beau Jos in Idaho Springs. Their mountain pies are the best! No other pizza will taste good enough after that.

Here are some of the highlights.




Somewhere between Fort Lauderdale and Houston we captured these cool looking clouds.


Our arrival at Denver International Airport afforded us a great view of the airport.

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Who let the owls out? Who..who..who..

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Meow.

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"PARIS - Emily the cat is heading home, in style. The wayward tabby from Wisconsin who disappeared two months ago and wound up traveling across the Atlantic to France boarded a Continental Airlines flight Thursday — in business class.

Travel conditions leaving Europe promised to be a bit more comfortable for Emily, who arrived as a stowaway in a cargo container after straying from home in Appleton, Wis.

"I don't think she'll drink champagne but I think she will be happy to rest," said Continental spokesman Philippe Fleury, at Charles de Gaulle airport to see Emily off. The airline offered to fly the cat home from Paris after her tale spread around the world and she cleared a one-month quarantine.

"This was such a marvelous story, that we wanted to add something to it," Fleury told AP Television News. A full-fare ticket for Emily's seat would normally cost about $6,000 and the airline provided a company escort for the cat.

Emily vanished from her home in late September. She apparently wandered into a nearby paper company's distribution center and crawled into a container of paper bales.

The container went by truck to Chicago and by ship to Belgium before the cat was found Oct. 24 at Raflatac, a laminating company in Nancy, France. Emily, who turned 1 year old that very day, was thin and thirsty but still alive.

Workers at Raflatac used her tags to phone her veterinarian in Wisconsin, and the vet called her owners.

Emily faced one last packed day of travel before her homecoming. She was due to arrive in Newark, N.J., later Thursday, board a connecting flight to Chicago, and then be driven home to Wisconsin, Fleury said.

Emily's escort, Newark-based Continental employee George Chiladze, said he was thrilled to be taking Emily back across the Atlantic.

"I will make somebody really happy to deliver this poor traveler back home," he said."

 

A Christmas Story

'Twas the night before Christmas--Old Santa was pissed.
He cussed out the elves and threw down his list.
Miserable little brats, ungrateful little jerks.
I have a good mind to scrap the whole works!

I've busted my ass for damn near a year,
Instead of "Thanks Santa"--what do I hear?
The old lady bitches cause I work late at night.
The elves want more money--The reindeer all fight.

Rudolph got drunk and goosed all the maids.
Donner is pregnant and Vixen has AIDS.
And just when I thought that things would get better
Those assholes from the IRS sent me a letter,
They say I owe taxes--if that ain't damn funny
Who the hell ever sent Santa Claus any money?

And the kids these days--they all are the pits
They want the impossible--Those mean little shits
I spent a whole year making wagons and sleds
Assembling dolls...Their arms, legs and heads
I made a ton of yo yo's--No request for them,
They want computers and robots...they think - I'm IBM!

Flying through the air...dodging the trees
Falling down chimneys and skinning my knees
I'm quitting this job there's just no enjoyment
I'll sit on my fat ass and draw unemployment.

There's no Christmas this year now you know the reason,
I found me a blonde. I'm going SOUTH for the season!