Detayls

We have posted a lot of photos from our recent trip to Wisconsin.

They are all separated by different galleries for each visit or activity.

Please click on this link or the sample picture on the right to view all the pictures that have been uploaded. There are more. You will be taken to a page called detayls.smugmug.com, which is where all of the pictures live. You will see a list of albums in reverse order by time with the newest gallery shown first.

You may click on the picture for each gallery to see the rest. To return to the top just click “detayls” in the top left or go to detayls.smugmug.com again.

Above the galleries is a slide show of the most popular shots. You can vote for any picture to add it to the slide show by hovering your mouse over the picture that you like and clicking the green “thumbs up” when it appears.

Enjoy!

JoLynn and David paid a brief visit to China Camp in Marin County recently.

It was a misty moisty day and the quiet was very comforting.

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Lisa McDowell dropped in the San Francisco Bay Area in early December 2009. She waited patiently until her friend Daniel arrived and then they nipped over to Napa for a couple of days.

Lisa had spent the previous four months on an epic trip around the world starting from England in July by flying to India and gradually inched nearer to California via Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. There are some contributed pictures from her trip in a previous album here.

One of her requests was a quick trip to Wildcare in San Rafael and she virtually demanded some Dim Sum in San Francisco. Eleven years is just too long!

She had fond memories of a trip to the Harbor Village restaurant at the Embarcadero with us for Dim Sum in 1998. Sadly the Harbor Village is no more. David and JoLynn recruited Jeanni and Grier to take us to a favorite restaurant and we all had a lovely meal.

Afterward we visited the Legion of Honor to absorb a little culture before heading home to Marin

Hi, I’m Lisa McDowell (Guest Contributor and David’s niece). I left London in early August to see as much of the world as I could fit into the space of 5 months. The following photos are my best shots, ranging from India and Nepal to Australia and Fiji. Unsurprisingly I had the time of my life – enjoy!

Moira and Robyn Taylor from Wellington, New Zealand came to visit the Taylors on their way home from New York in Early November 2009.

Robyn had run in the New York marathon the previous weekend with a time of 4 hours and 27 minutes. This was only her second major marathon. Her previous was in New Zealand. Her sisters Moira and Alison and her brother Alec went with her for support. Alison and Alec then returned to where they are living. Alison is working in Indonesia and Alec in northern Canada.

We took the sisters to the top of Twin Peaks in San Francisco to get good views of the bay and then took them for a Chinese meal in Chinatown. We traveled on a Cable Car for a few blocks on the way.

On Sunday we all went out to Tony’s for oysters and seafood in Marshall followed by a visit to Point Reyes Station.

What could be finer? A day out with Mitchell and Helen in West Marin with BBQ Oysters and sea food to eat. A visit to Point Reyes Station with coffee from the Bovine Bakery. Some browsing at Toby’s Feed Barn.

Then home to introduce Tas to Mitchell and Helen. Perfect.

Connie and Jim Infield came to visit Helen from Germany in May, 2009.

Jim fixed everything in sight if it so much as looked at him funny. Everything is now gleaming and healthy.

We enjoyed their company and all the stories that were related. My favorite moment was watching a slightly sick Connie eat a Godzilla size 24 oz burrito and then demand a dessert. True class.

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The Clancy clan decided to hold a Barbeque at Stinson Beach on March 28, 2009.

This turned out to be the first gorgeous sunny day of the year so everyone else came too! We had a wonderful time and watched with some amazement as a bunch of young teens got busted for some infraction. The Park Rangers lectured the poor kids until their ears started to bleed and then issued them tickets for around $150 before delivering them into the arms of their thrilled parents.

(No pictures – would you try and snap the long arm of the law in the commission of their duty?)

The frisbees flew and the hot dogs disappeared. It was a glorious day.

These are some photos JoLynn took at WildCare’s Gala, which was held on February 6, 2009.

Most of the staff and a good number of volunteers showed up to help, so we had enough help so everyone could enjoy the event and socialize without something falling through the cracks.

The dancing was much livelier this year, because some professional dancers were hired, and they made the dance floor a little less intimidating.

Trish Carney’s Robins image was chosen for the weekly image review on Nature’s Best Photography.

Nature’s Best is a Nature photography quarterly magazine. You can see the review by clicking on the picture.

Notes from the field: “I knelt down across from the rock and braced myself since I was tripodless and tried to get some shots of the birds taking off from the rock. I was shooting at ISO 400 and using a shutter of 1/2500 and I have many blurred frames and frames with half a bird exiting frame!”— Trish Carney

Trish has started a blog for the bobcat sightings and other wild encounters.

I love her stuff.