2001 Chronological Activities

• January
  • The Christmas Vacation, continued from 2000
  • A Foggy January
  • A Sunny January
  • Annabelle

• February
  • Let It Snow!
    • Snow before sunrise
    • Daylight Activities
    • Business as usual
    • Snowy plants
    • Snowmen
    • Warming Up
  • It snowed again on February 16th:-
    • It's starting to snow
    • Morning
    • Garden under snow
    • Front street views
  • The Earthquake effects from February 28th and later

• March
  • New Museum of Flight exhibits
  • A trip to Olympia on a fine (almost) Spring day:
    • Nisqually Delta
    • Olympia's Capitol Campus
  • Tux the linux penguin at home

• April
  • Spring arrives in the garden
  • Mum's Funeral:
    • Yvonne's last photos of mum
    • The journey to Sydney
    • The Easter Saturday Barbecue with the nieces and nephew
    • Bardwell Park Railway Station has been a familiar sight for many years
    • Hyde Park an oasis of calm in Sydney
    • Mum's Funeral
    • Lentil the Cat
    • Partial Family Dinner
    • Mum's backyard and signs of autumn
    • Another Family Dinner at Cronulla
    • Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Earlwood, our family parish for many years.
    • Scenes in and around Bardwell Park
    • Balmoral Daze
    • Earlwood and Bardwell Park views
    • A cruise up the Hacking River for Anzac Day
    • Kelly's New Hair
    • Another Kookaburra
    • Time to leave
    • The Journey To Seattle

• May
  • May Flowers
  • Ride to Port Townsend
  • Sunset over downtown Seattle
  • Sunset near Snoqualmie Pass
  • Spring in Leavenworth
  • Sunset at Golden Gate Park, Shilshole
  • May blooms in my garden
  • Sunset on Mt. Rainier
  • The new bike - a BMW R1150RT

• June
  • Bill & Pat Gillingham's 50th wedding anniversary
  • Another sunset at Golden Gate Park
  • Simon Bennett's Graduation Ceremony
  • Mt. St. Helens from the eastern side
  • Boston for the Usenix Conference, June 24th to July 1st
    • Introduction to Boston
    • First walking tour
    • Second walking tour
    • Darkness falls as seen from my hotel room
    • Boston scenes

• July
  • July Gardening - Bark
  • July 30th was a good day to ride the Cascade Loop
    • Washington Pass
    • Lake Pateros and Wells Dam
    • Lake Chelan

• August
  • Laurel Ridge Annual Garage Sale - August 11th
  • Rosslyn & Cle Elum Reservoir
  • August 17th in the garden
  • Rosario Head and Baker Lake were the target for August 29th

• September
  • Yakima Canyon and the Columbia River
  • Mt. Baker from the south and north on September 11th.
  • After September 11
  • Another sunset
  • Giraffes arrive

• October
  • Grand Coulee Dam tour, October 3rd
  • Snoqualmie Falls
  • St. John Vianney Parish 30th Birthday
  • Autumn Colours in late October

• November
  • Thanksgiving at the Darnell's
  • November 28th and it's snowing!

• December
  • KPLU's Christmas Jam Jazz concert
  • Snoqualmie Falls following a day of rain
  • Cruising Lakes Union and Washington to view the Christmas lights
  • Sunshine on Christmas Eve
  • Christmas Day
  • St. John Vianney Church Christmas decorations
  • Last sunset of 2001

The Christmas Letter