hayride to the pumpkin patch

No interest in animals, just machines...

Sauvie Island is pretty

Elsa had a cold

Mount Rainier

On Charles' birthday we went to Mount Rainier for two days (in Washington State, a 3-hour drive from Portland). For pictures please click here

Belgium -- June 2009

crossing the Rhine by train

the Atomium in Brussels

mom is OUT (beach on the North Sea Channel)

Unfortunately our camera broke, so we have no still photos to post from the family visits in Brussels and Bavaria, or from our stay in Austria

Menden -- where mom grew up

the house CB grew up in

the house next door (with the "devil's tower") - with Olaf

with aunts and cousins' kids

Menden (Germany) June 2009 -- people shots

Elsa at the public pool where grandpa volunteers

someone damaged grandpa's table

in the train at Menden Bahnhof

walk in the Hoenne-valley (zwischen Binolen und Feldhofhoehle)

Silver Falls State Park May 2009

Oregon in April

in our neighborhood park

Oregon coast -- Elsa's first experience being mobile on the sand

Friday Harbor (WA) in March

Rare picture of all four of us (on the ferry, with Mount Baker in the background).

Limekiln lighthouse