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Three From Cambridge
Someday words will come back to me and I’ll again post actual sentences. In the meantime, here are three photos I took the day of the snow storm as I walked along the Charles River. When I say “I” I mean my brother Brian.
Saturday Night Potluck
Photos from last night’s dinner at our house.
Saturday Night Potluck
Photos from last night’s dinner at our house.
Fresh Cut
A Day’s Difference
A Day's Difference
Katie’s Americorps Experience
(Feb – Mar 2007)
Hi Mike,
Thought you and the blog would like to hear about daughter Katie’s amazing experiences in Americorps. I’ve put together a slide show using a bunch of Katie’s photos. (It was done with jalbum, which we all have come to know and love.)
Americorps has paired up with Habitat for Humanity in doing their re-building projects on the gulf coast, which explains the first slide.
Katie started Americorps training in Denver (first 13 slides), where Americorps has taken over part of Loretta College, formerly a women’s college, and now owned by a Japanese corporation. She and her team members took buses to downtown, so some of the shots are of downtown sights.
After training, her team drove down in vans to NM, then TX, and finally LA, where they were to work. Along the way they saw the ruined homes of New Orleans (5 shots). Then they went further south to Thibodaux, which wasn’t quite as damaged as New Orleans. At least the homes are on higher ground. (7 shots show her new digs, and 8 show food that was provided them by a local church congregation).
The last 14 shots show the actual reason they went down to Thibodaux. They built a house from the foundation on up. Katie specialized in hammering studs and putting roof trusses together.
Now that they’ve finished roughing out one house, they’ll go on to another, and maybe a third, before Katie’s team returns to Denver.
–rakkity
Katie's Americorps Experience
(Feb – Mar 2007)
Hi Mike,
Thought you and the blog would like to hear about daughter Katie’s amazing experiences in Americorps. I’ve put together a slide show using a bunch of Katie’s photos. (It was done with jalbum, which we all have come to know and love.)
Americorps has paired up with Habitat for Humanity in doing their re-building projects on the gulf coast, which explains the first slide.
Katie started Americorps training in Denver (first 13 slides), where Americorps has taken over part of Loretta College, formerly a women’s college, and now owned by a Japanese corporation. She and her team members took buses to downtown, so some of the shots are of downtown sights.
After training, her team drove down in vans to NM, then TX, and finally LA, where they were to work. Along the way they saw the ruined homes of New Orleans (5 shots). Then they went further south to Thibodaux, which wasn’t quite as damaged as New Orleans. At least the homes are on higher ground. (7 shots show her new digs, and 8 show food that was provided them by a local church congregation).
The last 14 shots show the actual reason they went down to Thibodaux. They built a house from the foundation on up. Katie specialized in hammering studs and putting roof trusses together.
Now that they’ve finished roughing out one house, they’ll go on to another, and maybe a third, before Katie’s team returns to Denver.
–rakkity
March Snow
Our backyard
Adam’s Kind
Adam,
I know you don’t normally relax in front of movies like the Zodiac , but wouldn’t you agree with me that you and Fincher have much in common?
“Just the facts: two homicide detectives, a crime reporter and a political cartoonist spend decades knocking themselves out to catch a serial killer who never (officially) gets caught. Careers, marriages, even sanity fall victim to obsession. That’s Zodiac, a meticulous, mind-bending, nonstop mesmerizer of a movie that needed another die-hard fanatic to make it pop onscreen.
And who better for the job than the brilliant, driven David Fincher, a director known to put his actors through more than 100 takes to get the nuances he wants.”
How about your review of the DVD version?
Michael
Adam's Kind
Adam,
I know you don’t normally relax in front of movies like the Zodiac , but wouldn’t you agree with me that you and Fincher have much in common?
“Just the facts: two homicide detectives, a crime reporter and a political cartoonist spend decades knocking themselves out to catch a serial killer who never (officially) gets caught. Careers, marriages, even sanity fall victim to obsession. That’s Zodiac, a meticulous, mind-bending, nonstop mesmerizer of a movie that needed another die-hard fanatic to make it pop onscreen.
And who better for the job than the brilliant, driven David Fincher, a director known to put his actors through more than 100 takes to get the nuances he wants.”
How about your review of the DVD version?
Michael