Quote of the day

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

- Mark Twain

Welcome baby Odin Anderson Bowen

My brother Philip and his wife Paige welcomed their first son Odin Anderson Bowen into the world this past Saturday, and he came home from the hospital this afternoon.
  

Treats at the zoo

I took Anna and Benjamin to the Toledo Zoo this weekend, and of course the adventure was as much about the ice cream and cotton candy (respectively) as it was about seeing the animals...

  

Not fair!

Usually I post pictures taken by me, but today I'm going to post a picture of me...

This is a picture of my girlfriend Ann and I eating a perfect dinner on a balcony overlooking Puerto Vallarta Mexico in April 2008.



Now to the unfairness: We haven't seen each other in 2 weeks and tomorrow, we get to spend 30 minutes together at a gate in the Detroit airport, and then go our separate ways again... :-(

Northwest rules won't let us change an itinerary to actually spend the evening together with out buying a whole new ticket, so here's hoping for the right combination of delays and or cancelations to "strand" us in Detroit for the night.

Wish us luck!

Happy Girl

I did a fun portrait shoot this weekend. I keep coming back to this one as my favorite of the shoot (sometimes emotion trumps picky details like focus and composition!)

Charity ride with Greg LeMond

Three time Tour de France winner Greg Lemond working on his bike as his son Scott waits. "My dad has 20 bikes at home, and they are are ALL broken!"



Riders on the Orono Alliance for Education's charity ride gather around Greg LeMond at the start of the ride.



Greg LeMond leads the riders out.



Greg LeMond chats with riders at the half way rest on the ride.

Head to head (more soccer)

I've been having fun going to some Orono youth soccer games... and learning a bit about shooting sports... the Nikon D300 autofocus has some amazing vodoo magic for dynamically tracking a moving object that is quite amazing!