Mexico 2009

Zaylan on the deck; never tired of flossing

Anthony; usually ready to eat.

Zaylan with Dave Behr's Canoes

A summer day in Fairbanks, AK; box of juice in hand

Zaylan at Dave Behrs City Home

On Phinney Road, Cape Cod 2008

Mid day bike ride to Craigville Beach

Paul Phinney, born in 1764, buried in a cemetery on a road that bears his family name.

Long Lake, scene of the 2008 Cole family reunion, where two of us flipped the sailboat, leading to a long paddle home pushing an inverted sail.

Me & AC, June 2008

Me, AC, & Judy: June 2008

Picnic on the lawn with Anthony and milk bottle.

Zaylan Patrick Cole, Thanksgiving 2007

First grandchild Zaylan was born in Juneau in the Fall of 2006. Generally has a sweet disposition with lots of energy.

Kennicott Mine from above

Climbed up aove the long-abandoned mine for a look "down" at the ruins of the mine buildings and the glacier moraine beyond. Labor Day Weekend , 2007.

Kennicott Mine from above -- not a very long hike

Mama Said

Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this Mama said
(Mama said, mama said)
Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this my Mama said
(Mama said, mama said)
I went walking the other day,
Everything was going fine,
I met a little boy named Billy Joe
And then I almost lost my mind
Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this Mama said
(Mama said, mama said)
Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this my Mama said
My eyes are wide open
But all that I can see is,
chapel bells are callin for everyone but-a me
but I don't worry cause
Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this Mama said
(Mama said, mama said)
Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this my Mama said
And then she said someone will look at me
like I'm looking at you one day,
then I might find
I don't want it any old way,
so I don't worry cause
Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this Mama said
(Mama said, mama said)
Mama said there'll be days like this,
There'll be days like this my Mama said
Mama said, mama said
Hey! Don't you worry,
Mama said mama said
Hey! Don't you worry now.
Mama said mama said,
Hey! Hey!

Pat at Cleary Cabin 2007

Swapped a cabin at Findlay Forest that I built in 1974 for this cabin at Cleary in 1978 with Robert Ford. Serious lack of maintenance and care over the years since then, but many retirement plans to fix long term problems. Thanks to April, David & Mei Behr for all their work so far!

August, 2006. Lying on a bench at the tail of a KC 135 watching the refueling of one of the Navy Blue Angels; near Edmonton, Alberta. It looks like I'm leaning out of the plane, but it's actually a glass bubble. Got the chance to ride along with the Alaska Air National Guard. Flew from Fairbanks to Edmonton and back -- without landing.

Blue Angels behind Alaska Air National Guard, flying Over Alaska

Close up of refueling near Edmonton, Alberta

Erica Johnson, around 1983, at Martha Kowalski's house. Whose birthday?

September, 2004

PC and Erica, at Uncle's house in Fairbanks.

Farmall Cub, at the ancestral Quakertown, PA farm

Still running in 2003, but soon to be sold after nearly 50 years of service, just before the estate sale of the farm our parents bought around 1946.

On the Farmall Cub in the mid-1980's back on the Quakertown farm near Steinsburg, PA 

Fairbanks 1st Tired Iron Snowmachine "race"

  

Moose outside Terrence's house

  

Farm House in 2003

  

1950's at the Farm with Grandfather Owen Costello

  

A Maxfield Parrish Christmas