I was in San Jose for the last 10 days for some meetings and to attend SPIE. While I was there, I went for a short hike through the redwoods in Big Basin State Park. It was fantastic–if you’ve ever been to Muir Woods National Monument north of San Francisco, it’s very similar only with [...]
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As promised, I’ve put my pictures from our trip to the Burlington, Vermont area last July in a gallery. The main reason for our trip was to attend the wedding of Richard McCormick and Cielo Mendoza, but we also found time to visit the Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream factory near Waterbury and I did [...]
In July we went to a wedding in Burlington, Vermont. I was sorting through our pictures recently (I’ll put them in a gallery soon) and came upon some shots I took on a hike along the Nordic skiing trails at Bolton Valley. One of the sights along the way was labeled on the map as [...]
Back in June Melissa, Matthew, and I went with the rest of my family to the island of Virgin Gorda in the British Virgin Islands. I actually uploaded my pictures from the trip not long after we got back, but never got around to writing captions for all the pictures. I kept thinking I’d get [...]
On our recent trip to Florida, Melissa and I were lucky enough to get to see the launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery on STS-120, a mission to the International Space Station. I have wanted to watch a shuttle launch for nearly as long as I can remember, so it was a fantastic stroke of [...]
