Happy 17th Birthday to Annalena
Etta-pus, Dave, Annalena, and Gina -- October 1994, Oakland, California
Newborn family portrait by Kristina Keefe-Perry. File under aw and awe. Tempus fugit (Latin for “time flies”), as my father-in-law Bob used to say. Tonight we’ll celebrate birthday #17 with Cole’s Creation pizza from Baba Louie’s and homemade pumpkin pie.
Berkshire Summer Vista
This Berkshire summer vista on Monument Mountain Road in Great Barrington, Massachusetts always makes me catch my breath.
Family Portrait Circa 1970
Me with my father and brothers Jan, Kris, and Charlie. Sarasota, 1970-ish.
Pie Author Headshots: You Be the Judge
My daughter’s pal Peter Boyce snapped these photos yesterday. Which one of these shots says “pie”?
with glasses
- no glasses
sideways glance
Realism
Berkshire Spring Sky Photograph by Catherine Niles
Photo by Cathy Niles
Catherine Niles of Salisbury, Connecticut posted this wonderful image on her Facebook Daily Photo Journal. It sums up how I feel about this gorgeous spring day and I’m pleased to share it here with her permission. Cathy doesn’t have a website yet, but you can reach her at cenile [at] comcast.net.
To see Cathy’s fall foliage photos from a couple of years ago, click here.
Untitled (Let's Get Lost) by Shaun Sundholm
Untitled (Let’s Get Lost) by Shaun Sundholm
I’m sad that we’re not going to manage a family vacation this summer as there’s no break between when Dave’s Jacob’s Pillow season ends and when Annalena commences her sophomore year of high school. I keep redecorating my Twitter background wallpaper in protest with road trip imagery and I impulse-bought the above print yesterday. It’s part of Jen Bekman’s delightful Summer Reading exhibition in NYC.
Annalena's Spectacular Fireworks Photos
My daughter, Annalena Barrett*, took these spectacular photos on the 4th of July at the National Mall in Washington, DC. Some she took using the “fireworks setting” on the camera and others not. I have no idea how she even knew there was such a setting. Chalk it up to being a digital native.
*Photos posted with permission (and if you find these images via Google image search and want to use them, then you, too, should ask permission ’cause the photographer may only be 14, but she is savvy).
Mexican Fireworks
As lovely as the fireworks will likely be at Tanglewood tonight, they won’t match the dangerous thrill and creative spectacle of Mexican castillos. Here are photos by our friend Lulu Torbet of a fireworks tower (castillo) in San Miguel de Allende.
…and an amazing YouTube video of fireworks in a little town called La Chona.
Kindergarten School Photo
Dave says I look like Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed.
Three Generations of Hyams Women
San Miguel de Allende, February 2009
Photos by Judith “JJ” Anderson
