Author: Vivian

Vivian’s Flickr Page This is my new Flickr page. (Sorry, Ian, the photo uploads are so much easier on Flickr than on this weblog. And I tried to use one of the other entries on this blog to turn the above into an actual link, but failed miserably.) I’ve posted a bunch of our San…

Terry and I will leave tomorrow morning for a week in San Francisco. He has a conference. We’ll be staying in the Hotel Nikko, if anyone needs to reach us. I’ll have my computer and an internet connection there. Tim is staying home alone – scary! Brady has begun a Flickr site, for posting photos….

Brady was briefly featured yesterday in an article in the Metro section of The Washington Times, the right-wing paper in D.C. Nothing political, though. It was about American University’s “Freshman Service Experience,” where Brady is a volunteer leader. Here’s the url: http://www.washtimes.com/metro/20050823-104208-2930r.htm.

It’s noontime, and the temperature is already 27C, the “humidex” is 34C. Forecast high for today: 33; for the rest of the week, 34. This is a reprise of the weather we had for most of the last week in June and the first week in July. We had a few days of clear, warm…

Is it just cooling its bum? Or does this mean new snappers are on their way? Seen from the verandah window yesterday morning. The creature sat there for more than an hour and she was not sunning herself (wx was cloudy). [Edited by Ian: Made the front image smaller, click the image to see full…