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September 8, 2008
This link to Shutterfly came my way. You can create your own photo website. It’s easy to do, takes very little time, and it’s free.
In organizing my photos, I thought I’d introduce you to my family.
This is a photo of my sister Sonja, taken in her computer’s PhotoBooth.
Sonja
Mother of 10 year old twins, superb chocolatier, school teaching assistant. Sonja edits the articles in this blog and transforms them from something that made sense to me, into something that could make sense to someone else. Sometimes, she tells me they make no sense at all. She unwinds in her kayak.
Sonja in her kayak.
You met Sonja’s husband, Xavier, in the article The Beauty And Power Of HDR Photographs. Xavier is a fabulous chef, trained in his native France. Presently, he teaches cooking at a college in his town. He Loves His Computer, so we relate on many levels. Besides his cooking skills, his claim to fame inside the family stems from his impressive skills as a travel agent. He’s also the only one of the men who will spend any kind of time at Value Village.
Xavier at the VV.
Here he is on YouTube, for an interview of his school and teaching practices.
My brother Patrick is a father of three whose first words to you on the phone are “Are the tops of the trees moving?”. If they are, it means there’s enough wind to keep a windsurfer afloat. He’s also an expert sailor. His computer is almost physically attached to his body, except when he’s on water.
Patrick Mason
Patrick is the co-owner of Social Media 404. We all know that the social networks provide anyone with an idea or a product to sell with a huge potential market or following. But how do you incorporate that into your daily activity? So you have a Facebook profile or a MySpace page? Should you also be tweeting over at Twitter? Do you belong at LinkedIn? And once you’ve identified your spot, how do you manage the conversation? Patrick, along with his partner John Sheridan, work with individuals and corporations to customize the answers to those question for each application.
Here is Patrick’s beautiful wife, Holly.
Holly
A born hostess, Holly loves to entertain and will never feed you on paper plates. She is famous for her to-truly-die-for brownies and her ability to entertain 20 people in style with an hour’s notice. Holly is mother to her 3 kids, a speech therapist, and tries to fit in her 15 minutes of deep relaxation each day without looking at the clock the entire time. When she asks Patrick how she looks, he will only and invariably answer “As beautiful as the day I married you”. Very wise answer. And I know he really means it.
You met my Mum in the article My Mother Died. Here she is when my parents were married. Does anyone think Patrick and my Dad resemble one another?
My parents in 1960.
And this is my Dad. We made pie for the first time this summer. Here we are, the proud parents of our first pie.
Me and my Dad and our pie.
It was pretty good, though the crust was a little thick. It took us a few tries to figure out how to roll the thing out, with Sonja feeding us tips by phone. Although Apple doesn’t know this, my Dad is their greatest ambassador. He loves his iMac, has tons of pictures in iPhoto, and uses iChat to show us the piece of clothing most recently left behind by his grandchildren, so the parents can identify its rightful owner. Obviously, computer addiction is a genetic trait that his children are similarly afflicted with.
This is my husband Bill on the day we got married.
Bill Scaman
It was October 31, 1992. Bill is a farmer in his heart. He understands the soil, moisture, and the cycle of the seasons in ways he can’t really articulate. I’ve stopped asking what “When the ground is fit” actually means. Small things annoy him… small parts, small cars, small challenges, small risks… . He’s a modern farmer who can work huge acreage with enormous machines, and produce crop yields that are shocking. Other loves include good red wine, BBQ, and TV because he falls asleep almost instantly. He’s had his children sitting on his head to watch Barney because he’s taking up the whole couch, and dripping Popsicle juice down his neck, and he won’t wake up. Turn off the TV or say the word “overflow” anywhere in the house, and he’ll be up like a shot.
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My, isn’t your sister lovely!
A stunner!
The offers are pouring in. I’m just filtering through them for you so you’re not inundated with proposals.
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Alright…I just have to say it…
you and your sister look alike, your dad and brother definitely look alike and my, Bill is all grown up now;-)
Lovely photos…hi to all!
The photo with your Dad is tooo funny Chris. Seriously looks like you have found the murder weapon and are awaiting the pie police to come and pick you up.
I think you look a lot like him you know.
Ta, and thanks for sharing
Daniele!!
Bill is indeed all grown up, poor guy. Do you know this is the only picture I could find of him? He’s very photo-aversive.
Gina,
Hi! Always love hearing your comments. That photo is comical, ay? We look like we think we’re quite clever. Dad is probably just glad he survived an episode of cooking with me. He called it “guerilla piemaking”. I’m just proud to have produced something that looks like a pie. I have failed so many times, you have no idea. I could never roll the thing out.
I think I look like him too, It’s amazing how often I see my parents’ faces in my own these days. I wonder if Patrick and Sonja do as well, in their own faces. Or you in yours?
It is interesting that as we age we see our parents in our own faces.
I could say ‘the parents of our youth’ but I was always at a loss as to what my mother actually looks like. I mean I have an image in my head and would know her on the street, don’t get me wrong, but I think the image is from a photograph I have and when I try to actually remember what she looks like, feature by feature, I find I cannot. The edges are soft and blurry and fade away if I try to focus on them to make it more distinct.
People say I look very much like her and that Kati looks so much like me and yet I have a difficult time seeing this. Possibly easier for me to see the resemblance with the younger and not the older….perhaps that is my all too large ego
Also I have some more recent shots of Bill (certain he is cursing me right now