A brand new baby girl!

Annette | November 30, 2009

She’s growing so quickly. Babies have a way of doing this.
Here is the newborn Ryan, in early September:

And here she is now, not quite three months old!

She’s already a beauty, and, if she’s anything like her twin cousins, old GrannyT**t is gonna be on the run for the next thirty years or so. [...]

DANGER! DANGER! DANGER!

Annette | November 21, 2009

It seems that you take your life in your hands if you try to get in between a hungry Princess Ava and her Happy Meal, even if it’s only to get her to smile for a quick picture:

Princess Ava’s school pictures………

Annette | November 4, 2009

This little girl is a natural before the camera, which clearly loves her – who doesn’t?

When good families go redneck………..

Annette | October 15, 2009

They’ve recovered now, but their long weekend in the backwoods caused a temporary, but sincere, regression. Princess Ava was seen frolicking quite regally in a creek, which is now sanctified water. Young Master Cole discovered that the animals’ souls would bend to his will, with only his thoughts as the weapon.
(His father, of [...]

An American icon ………….

Annette | April 7, 2009

A picture of Helen Thomas at an awards ceremony in Washington State last week.
She is wonderful. I love this photograph.

There is an ocean out there, I can see it from here ………

Annette | March 15, 2009

For a structure that was demolished as the sixties became the seventies, it sure does show up regularly in odd places. I don’t remember where I found this image, but it’s not one that was in my great postal collection – the one I sent with Larry to distribute to any Atlantians who might [...]

You can screw in public in Milton, FL…..

Annette | March 7, 2009

but there’s a whole lot you’re not allowed to do in their little park.
A recent visitor had a comment for the good folks of Milton who decreed what isn’t permitted in their park.

I dare you……….

Annette | March 1, 2009

…… to watch this video without ending up humming, with a big, goofy grin on your face:

Nothing compares to free speech……..

Annette | February 28, 2009

…… except maybe free spelling lessons.
Looks like “No Child Left Behind” left someone behind:

Think you’ve seen sand sculptures?

Annette | January 9, 2009

Sure, we’ve all done them at the beach.
But, this site shows us how the pros do it.

See this………..

Annette | January 5, 2009

It just aired on MSNBC. Its North American premiere.
I’m not sure I’ve ever heard a more damnable story. It is shocking. It is sad. It is filled with beautiful people. It is a murder tale that is about love.
Honestly, I’ve never seen anything like it.
“Dear Zachary” is a love letter [...]

Real women catch fish……….

Annette | January 2, 2009

A long time ago, in 1974, I believe, down in the Florida Keys on holiday, I caught my first fish. It was, of course, memorialized by an ardent fan:

Nice hat, huh?
Yesterday, as 2009 began, the year in which Miss Ava will turn four years old, she caught her first fish. Like me, she [...]

Princess Ava went to a tea party

Annette | December 29, 2008

and showed the ladies in hats how it’s done………..

The face of Christmas

Annette | December 25, 2008

Three years old, and Princess Ava had to be reassured that the Santa thing did not mean that he was coming to take away her gifts.
She was greatly relieved, and that probably means that Santa will live to bring toys next year…………………..

This morning, on this day of days,

Annette | November 4, 2008

Princess Ava received a gift of a couple of magic wands. No true Princess would be complete without her wand, and someone just happened to have some lying around. So little Sleepyhead was presented with her wands, and now, with her Mommy, is on her way to the voting place so that Mommy [...]

Who was the most beautiful princess……….

Annette | November 1, 2008

………. on Halloween?
Why, Tippy Toe Princess Ava, of course.

When you need a bit of good luck………..

Annette | October 29, 2008

…… the best you can get is Princess Ava sending you a smile.

Princess Ava is having a good day…………..

Annette | October 28, 2008

Somebody – and I ain’t namin’ names here -

Annette | October 21, 2008

but somebody sure makes pretty babies.
Here are the Boys Of The Year:

On a day like today,

Annette | September 22, 2008

when good men walk in the woods and wonder, when their female counterparts design bigger and better recipes for nachos grande, when the memories are, perhaps, too vivid, when he hears, over and over, in his head, Jeff Buckley singing Leonard Cohen’s “Hajellulah,” it occurs to me that it is time to look at some [...]