Explanatory memo

The posts from below to the end of the July column are from our 'BigDog' trip to Denver and Texas in May/June 2009, and actually unfold from bottom to top of the column of photos. It doesn't make all that much difference except to the sense of some of the headers! (and maybe to the people in the photos..)

Stepping up!

Garden-variety hanging out

Obart, Lulu, Jon, Erica and fine dining

Cuddling with Uncle Jon and Erica

Jiving in Abilene

Westtexas Stilllife 2009 (Paul, blueberry juice, farm, moustache)

Texas barbeque, Kyle-Style

Artsy-looking reflections in the river

Jay, Jim, Evan and Cassidy on the San Antonio Riverwalk

Family reunion in Round Rock

Grandpa-by-association removes a nose

Texas waterholes in Austin and San Marcos

Tres hermanos and 1/8

Cheeeese

Tom and Sharon getting married

Bron, Jim and Cassidy at Tom (Jim's step-brother's) wedding in Austin, Texas

Daydreaming of freedom

Bliss is an apricot on a Texas summer evening in the garden

Hats off to you too, Miss Tiffany

Have pod, will travel/push/steamroll toes

I'm not sure about this hairstyle's pain rating..

Halfpint

Visiting with Grandma Evelyn

What on earth is that?

Land of the Big Dawgs......

Cassidy's first two word phrase appeared here in Bryan, Texas - when she saw these two gentle giants, she shrieked with pleasure and said 'big dawg', with a proper Texas accent, and that became the phrase of the holiday...Sierra, the dog in the second holiday, shadowed her round like a mother dog the entire time we were in Bryan

Conference hotel, Denver, with Shep and Christie, and then with Nadia, Bronwyn's daughter

Having fun out in Boulder, Colorado

Let's go rafting! - Boulder, Colorado, with Christie and Shep

Yes? ..Yes of course...it's for you!

I shall consider that very seriously....

Cassidy with Nate, Bill and Ann's son, in Denver, Colorado, Memorial Day weekend