tromp le monde

Tromp L'oeile has been popping up everywhere. Here at Boo's art opening we set ourselves up in front of a nice little Colorado landscape. Boo looks best
Corey

Here are my folks in the Des Moine airport. We flew to Iowa in January 25 for my Aunt Glady's funeral in Newton.
Mike
In the church where the service was held there was an amazing stuccoed wall.
My parents and my cousin Kim
More mural-tastic action in Newton. Several years ago the town commissioned an artist to paint murals around town celebrating Newton's past.



Glady's old house, where we used to visit when we were kids.
We went to Maid-Rite for a ....Maid-Rite. Otherwise known in the Mid-West as a "loose meat sandwich". You almost need a spoon to eat this thing...basically steamed ground beef that is piled onto a bun. Better than it might sound to Western ears.
Obama stopped in there several weeks ago during the Iowa caucuses.
Why didn't I buy this gem that I saw at the antique store? Ingrid Bergman!

We don't live here anymore

Josh and I drove down to Denver to spend the day. Brigid met up with us and then we met Shena and Ross for drinks at City O City. It's where the old Watercourse restaurant used to be.
Josh, Shena, Ross and Brigid out in the cold.
Ross at the Sputnik. Saturdays there a DJ plays Golden AM hits
Shena with snowflakes.

Stranger Than Paradise

These are two of my students from Photo 1. We went out for drinks and nearly got in a bar brawl with some townies.
Outside the Silver Grille Cafe
My friend Josh is back in town for the holidays. He and his sister Katie came shopping with me.
Mike and Chandler on the lake.

Dec 9, 2007

The Old and the New

German Lutheran Church (built in 1920) in Eaton, CO, from Robert Adam's book "White Churches of the Plains"
40 years later...
Denise and me in 1995
12 years later...
First snowfall in Fort Collins

Virginia

Kay and Cosimo, out in Charlottesville, Virginia
Greg Kelly
Yola Monakhov
Bill at Old Rag in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Boo Mullen in Colorado Springs
Florian Maier-Aichen photograph at the Denver Art Museum
Fox with Squirrel