Photos are in chronological order, with the latest on the top
My apologies about the lousy slideshow software for the 2007 photos... I'll get rid of it soon...
The church pageant, some scenics at -52 F, but strangely, no Christmas present photos.
Some nice peppers and corn this year.
We visit Leanne in North Carolina and Isa has her 50th birthday.
Joe makes his very first dinner with king salmon, and the garden is doing well.
Phil and Ben invite us to fell some logs and float down the Yukon River on a raft.
We see a golden plover, bears, moose, and Siberian arnica.
We go down to the Yukon River to look at the ice floes, and Joe decides it is summer.
Snowmachines go skipping across a pond, the ground shows itself, and Joe takes part in
the junior carnival.
Isa experiences a bout of MS ("Martha Stewart") and organizes a treasure hunt in the snow and an elaborate
party game for the kids - along with cake written in a Star Wars language.
Archives
Joe's first year in organized sports.
Scenics around town from March and April 2007.
Santa does his American thing and gets JoJo his own personal firearm. Grandma visits from Florida.
This year's church Nativity pageant was organized by Isabella, who did a great job. JoJo was
one of the wise men.
The elementary school Christmas pageant, in which JoJo portrays a holiday moose.
JoJo went to his first reconcilliation on 19 December 2006 at the Catholic church here in Galena.
Africa photos
Here are some of the photos from our trip to Africa during the summer of 2006.
During our first days in Africa, JoJo went back to school for two days at Parkview Junior School
in Johannesburg with his cousin Blake.
We drove out to Kruger with Blake and JoJo in the back seat of Robbie's Audi.
Storks, elephants, baboons, and a chocolate-colored giraffe.
A beautiful sunrise along the river and a pride of lions basking in the sun.
We start with a herd of Cape buffalo and the day gets better and better.
We accidentially see a serval.
An elephant charges the car and scares Isabella.
One final morning in the park.
A gallery of family photos taken while we were in Johannesburg in mid-June.
Photos from the Durban branch of the family.
Our friend Jane and a beautiful view of Durban from Mario and Clara's apartment.
We watched whole herds of hippos at St. Lucia.
Some photos from our visit to St. Lucia.
The landforms in Hluhluwe and the homes in Zululand.
Nice animals, including an Alaskan tree monkey.
Photos from JoJo's eighth birthday, which included homemade pizza and snowshoeing.
Leslie and Ron hosted the family at her house in New Jersey. It was a blast.
We spent a few days in New York over the holidays. JoJo got to ride Balto!
Grandma got to indulge her grandson, and we went walking through the canopy of a subtropical jungle.
Proof that 2005 was one of the best garden
years ever.
Isa wanted people to see how we prepare fish strips. Here you go!
Some nice stuff from the first real summer that we had to spend at our new home.
Including the fabulous video showing JoJo dancing on an ice floe singing to his aunties in
South Africa.
JoJo's seventh birthday, attended by his friends and his grandma from Florida.
Some nice scenics of Galena, photos of Mom and Leanne visiting cold, cold Galena, and JoJo opening
his Christmas presents.
A heaping helping of garden shots from the new house, taken during August and September 2004.
See Isa with a giant cabbage!
JoJo was baptised on 19 June 2004 at the Catholic church in Galena. His godparents are
Tim Bedony and Karen Lehmkuhl, a couple who atttend the church. Afterwards, we planted a tree in the
front of the church and watered it with his baptismal water.
Here are some photos of JoJo playing the role of the shepherd in the church
pageant at St. John Berchman's Catholic Church here in Galena. We also have
the usual doting photos of JoJo during the elementary school Christmas pageant, and
since we are a fair distance from the oppressive apparatchik at the ACLU, we actually use
the word "Christmas." Are we not intolerant slobs or what?
Isa's sisters Carla, Clara and Elena came to Florida during the summer of 2004 to visit the
American side of the family in July. They all stayed courtesy of my mom, who
had a home ready for them when they arrived. Everyone had a good time.
Some photos of the new house taken in the summer of 2004
JoJo's first day of kindergarten.
Our trip to Disney World in July 2003.
JoJo playing in the snow, and JoJo's fifth birthday party.
Many pictures from all over, starting with California and then showing us in Florida, in Galena
and during break-up.
Four examples of JoJo's first writing.
A potpourri of pictures from the summer of 2002, including the fabulous photo of JoJo asleep
at the kitchen table.
Here are some photos of JoJo's fourth birthday, as well as a photo of JoJo stuck in the snow
at the dog sled races.
JoJo's first Christmas pageant, and some odds and sods in the winter.
When the snow arrived in October, JoJo was thrilled. We went out and pulled him around on
the sled in the snow near our house.
We arrived in Galena in July 2001. We immediately set about exploring the community.
These are a series of photos taken by Ron Dalby on 4 April 1998, when JoJo was about 3 weeks old and
JoJo's parents were more svelte. Grandma and Grandpa were also there to be with JoJo.
I've worked through to the year 2007, where I am now confronting bad decisions. I used some canned software to create a slideshow
effect, which worked poorly. I have to replace it - but first I need to get to my mom's photos. One day I'll even do the weeklong
photo session like I did in the late summer of 2006.
18 Dec 2011
One of my personal goals this winter is the recreation of the photo pages. It's been about four years since I was here
presenting the photos to the family, and the issue reaching a peak with my mom's 80th birthday. I'm facing several boxes
of photos which need to find a home online, and this is the place to do it. Now I've got to get it together and
start scanning. Wish my luck.
25 November 2011
