Family good times, girls growing up, a tad of adventure. Below is a gallery of 2003-04 images (actually stretching into early 2005); click on any image for more info and a slideshow.
Elise & friend Toby in Cambridge UK, summer 2003. We spent 6 wks in Europe as part of my research.
Joy, Elise, Matt, and the Eisen gang at Abdi’s, a restaurant where J+E worked, August 2003.
Practicing the Kojosho animal and element postures in the Berkeley fog.
Jim, Mr. Absher, and Kojosho buddies at fall Berkeley Camp, Sept. 2003.
Joy, Elise, and Jim in the Canyonville United Methodist choir, November 2003. This is as big as it gets!
Jim’s odometer turns another digit, December 2003…he’s, um, 33!
Our cats (L-R George, Ira, and Aubrey), basking in the sunshine.
Jim’s graduate seminar students at an end-of-term party, March 2004.
Elise and Bongie at the Youth Achievement Awards, May 2004.
Joy and Elise on the plane en route to NM, June 2004.
Cousin Peter’s high school graduation, June 2004.
Elise/Joy/Bailey & their Uncle Bob in burn area en route to Cliff Lake, 8/04.
Bob, Elise, and Joy in the ancient Cliff Lake raft, just before Joy fell in!
ACCF summer camp students cutting ribbon on bridge they built, 8/04.
Cousin Lyra and Swazi friend Thamsanqa in SB, September 2004.
Jim and a buddy in the Bahamas, Oct. 2004 (another tough work assn).
Our resident artist Elise humanizes the Halloween pumpkin, fall 2004
Student participants in ACCF field trip to burn area, November 2004.
The ocean behind our home in Santa Barbara (Isla Vista), where I'd run and work out often...this one from Nov 2004.
Beagle Bailey enjoying the field outside our home, November 2004.
Elise, Bongie, and Joy at Bongie’s place in Pasadena, November 2004.
Uncle Dick, the Proctor patriarch, w/ daughter Dorothea & hubby Craig, also Nov 2004.
A view of trees in the mist from our trailer in Oregon, December 2004.
Our humble abode (w/ a 78 acre back yard) near Canyonville OR, 12/04.
Cousin Lyra with Joy, Matt, and Elise on Christmas day, December 2004.
Elise, Joy, and Matt after completing a new cedar entrance gate, 12/04
Jean, Carl, and Emily at C+E’s birthday party, January 2005.
The girls and the boyfriends (Ivan and Matt) at Joy’s birthday party, 1/05.
As I learned in early 2005, Jim soon says goodbye to the Santa Barbara sky…
...and hello to Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon!