Autumn Spectacle at Lionshead Beach

I took this photo with the Canon Sure Shot from the balcony of our condo overlooking Lionshead Beach early in November, 2005. The autumn foliage was especially bright that fall, and the Japanese maple tree in the right foreground was particularly spectacular.

Pujols at Bat

Back in September of this year Mary Ann won a drawing for four tickets to a St. Louis Cardinals’ game. When we got there, we found that we and two friends had fantastic seats about fourteen rows behind the field boxes just to our right of home plate. It was a great vantage point from which to snap this shot of Albert at bat. Even though the Cards lost by one run, we had a great time, thanks to some anonymous donor to the G4U (Goodies for You) fund drive. Our thanks to the donor and to whoever sold those tickets to Mary Ann.

Henry Giving Grandma the Raspberries

Mary Ann took this picture of Henry during our October, 2009 babysitting trip to New Jersey. At nearly one year, he was in his vocal stage then, testing all the noises that he could make with his mouth. That’s when he discovered the raspberry, replete with drool, and delivered it to Grandma as she adoringly photographed him standing behind his jump seat.

“Motif No. 1”, Rockport, Massachusetts

While Mary Ann and I were in Boston in July, 1967, for the wedding of our dear friends Barb and Tom Flaherty, we took a side trip to Rockport on Cape Ann, just north of Gloucester. There I shot this photo of the famed “Motif No. 1”, the red boat house on the pier. I took several shots of the boat house, using an ordinary point-and-shoot camera, but somehow I’ve become attached to this one because of the ancient, rotting hull in the foreground.

Crystal Trees

Winter in Innsbrook takes on a dark beauty all of its own. I took this shot looking out at Lake Aspen from our deck after an ice storm in January, 2007.

Jazzy Jamee

In October, 2002, something about our 16-month old granddaughter having fun at the baby grand piano compelled me to grab my Sure Shot and look for a photo op. I was not disappointed. She turned toward me and, with the moves and facial expressions of a jazz pianist, gave me exactly what I was looking for.

South Haven Sunset 1

This breathtaking scene presented itself to a group of our Chicago friends, Mary Ann and me on a September evening in 2008 while we were celebrating a reunion weekend in South Haven, Michigan. It was on one of the last rolls I took with our Canon Sure Shot.

I couldn’t resist trying to capture the vibrant purple, red and gold hues in the sky that evening. The outline of a friend’s multi-hulled, Navy Seal power raft at the water’s edge made the scene all the more enticing.

Lake Aspen Autumn Gold

When our friend Tim saw the view across Lake Aspen from the deck of our condo in Innsbrook Resort, he exclaimed, “You have a million dollar view!”

I captured this scene late one autumn afternoon as a beautiful sunset in the western sky cast a magnificent golden glow on the trees up the slope from the opposite shore of Lake Aspen.