Dead flowers

You will learn to hate these flowers- I’ve got dozens of shots of them that will probably find their way onto the blog at some point.  

Another lock wall

Lock wall on the Columbia or Snake river. These often feature hundred-foot long cracks zagging down them. Unsettlingly, some of them spray water violently, like in the movie “Earthquake” with Charlton Heston.  

Lock walls!

Big cement boxes the boat goes in and out of. Makes scary flooding noises when you sleep, like maybe the boat really is going down this time.  

Paris, 1962

The rest of my family lived in europe for awhile. I wasn’t born until ’67 so I missed out. Here are a few pictures my parents took.