Photo collections and slide shows
In May 2004 my garden on Baldwin St. was featured on the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival Garden Tour!
Wherein Kate and Steve visit Christo’s “The Gates” in Central Park.
The High St. studio where I lived in Santa Cruz after selling my house in 2004. Compact and efficient - talk about downsizing!
In 2005, Kate and Steve visited the town of Comfort, in the Texas hill country, where Charlie Hoge spent a year in his youth.
Our two weeks exploring the canyons around the Hole in the Rock Road.
Interesting architectural examples seen on our 2006 trip to New Zealand.
At Home
On The Road
It’s fall, and time for the annual elk circus in Rocky Mtn National Park.
Around Boulder
A photo story of our great 2007 basement renovation project: before, during and after.
A great hike we did around the Crater Lakes area above Rollinsville.
Travels Abroad
An August week spent with my friend Bob on his boat Fridur II, cruising the harbors, inlets and islands of coastal Maine.
In October 2005, Kate and I took off for a roadtrip across America in the Syncro, with various trials and tribulations along the way.
A desert camping trip to the Dollhouse area of Canyonlands National Park in Utah.
Sailing Trips
Architecture
A week’s Syncro camping in the Utah desert just north of the Arches NP boundary, with hiking forays to see some park highlights.
A few FLW buildings we visited in the Midwest in 2008, including Taliesin East.
Bicycling Spain, Morocco and Turkey, 2008
Nine months cycling around the Mediterranean in Spain, Morocco and Turkey.
During our tour of Turkey we took a week off the bikes for a sybaritic sailboat cruise along the Aegean coastline. These are a few photos of life aboard a traditional Turkish gulet.
Another trip with Bob on the Fridur II, 2 weeks in the spring of 2007 cruising the Abaco Islands in the northern Bahamas.
This links to a page of photo galleries of the house where I used to live in Santa Cruz. Kate and I did alot of great garden and remodeling projects here.
The fabulous new cathedral designed in 2005 by Skidmore Owings and Merrill and built of concrete, glass and timbers in downtown Oakland, California.
A weekend “cabin” built near South Lake Tahoe by my grandfather in 1955, an amazing example of mid-century modern architecture.
Miscellaneous Fun Stuff
While visiting California in Spring 2009 I attended the Maker Faire, a highly inspiring convocation of inventors, hackers, cyber-artists and steam punks.
Kate and Steve spend 2 summer months touring the north and south islands of New Zealand in their hippy van.
Steve takes a brief but spectacular late summer expedition to Iceland.
A gallery of our 5 months of bike touring and traveling through Rajasthan, South India, and the Andaman Islands.
