Elise, Joy and I lost dear Beagle Bailey this year—and discovered he’s now the desktop screen image for all of us. But more adventure and great times with family and friends. Below is a gallery of 2014 images; click on any image for more info and a slideshow.
Keeping Bailey warm and peaceful in January.
Beagle Bailey sleeping between Joy and Elise in Canyonville bathhouse (under construction).
A happy moment in Bailey's long struggle with melanoma and spine troubles last spring.
Bailey's many admirers showing their love and support.
Black forest ham & goat cheese make the medication go down!
...but soon it got hard to find anything Beagle Bailey was excited to eat.
After our long last night together in early May...poor Beagle Bailey struggled to breathe while lying down.
Just the start of the outpouring of sympathy and stories...what a gift Beagle Bailey gave to the world!
PDX Bridge Pedal, celebrating his long happy life...Bailey always accompanied me on this annual ride.
Funny thing: Joy, Elise and I all have Bailey photos on our desktop...he'll always be their sweet long-eared little brother.
Kahdo in January teaching Elise, Ryoko, and Joy how to clap.
Joy and Elise eating their faaaavoooorite (sushi) in PDX.
Colin and Naomi on one of several excursions in Portland, this one to Colin's haunts near Reed College.
Multnomah Falls was coooold when Elise and I took Colin and Naomi there in March.
Elise's April art exhibit...she increasingly moved into ceramics as her medium of choice.
Bob and Mary at Mom and Dad's memorial in the Canyonville cemetery, with beautiful flowers Bob brings every Easter.
Elise, Mary, Naomi, & Colin at our nearby haunted house in May.
Elise, Colin, and Naomi en route to Hoyt Arboretum.
Kahdo and his daddy Brooke enjoying July sunshine at Bob & Merrilee's former home in Eugene.
Elise, Joy, and Bongani at the PDX Blues Festival in July.
One of those family video favorites: Elise as a wee lass in the tub.
Elise, Joy, and Bongani in Columbia Gorge, July.
Time to clean out the storage area...including about three million stuffed animals.
Joy, Mary, and Elise in PDX on Elise's 27th birthday, Sept 1.
Elise's ceramics on display in November at student art show in downtown PDX.
Kahdo and Brooke playing with a candle at Thanksgiving in Eugene...his hair keeps growing!
Moving into Mary's lovely new light-filled home in the SW Eugene hills in December.
Bongani, Joy, and Elise after doing old-fashioned family decorations on the Christmas tree.
Kahdo and his new loud Christmas truck.
Many of the women in our clan -- Lyra, Ryoko, Mary, Joy, and Elise -- in the kitchen of Mary's new home preparing Christmas dinner.
The bathhouse, just one structure in our Canyonville plans, finally coming together in 2014...soaking tub to appear in time.
Bathhouse exterior coming together too; the big trifold doors open all the way up in nice weather.
Tri-City Elementary School field trip to ACCF, May.
Mary, Naomi, Peter, Bob, Elise, and Colin getting ready for badminton and camping on our land in August.
The parade for Canyonville's annual Pioneer Days in August always ends with a bed race.
Longtime friends Brody Guthrie and Terry Hergert in the Canyonville gym where we once played basketball...and now Brody as principal keeps it in good shape.
Local Girl Scouts setting off on an Alder Creek Community Forest adventure in October.
Hello, bobcat! The wildlife camera sits at an intersection on our forest we call the Saddle, and lots of critters pass by.
Hello, black bear! This one and siblings posed for frequent photos in fall.
Riparian area replanting day, late November. The aim: to replace blackberry brambles with a variety of trees...we planted 10 different natives.
Imagine, if you will, a common house! This will be the large gathering structure in our overall plans...let's see how much progress we make in 2015.
Lewis & Clark students visiting the Douglas County Museum in February.
Students from one of my classes hiking on our Canyonville forest in April after setting up camp.
In summer we developed a new digital scholarship platform for Lewis & Clark College…
...and delivered a workshop on a related initiative, Imagining the Global, with participating overseas programs in Japan, Vietnam, and Germany.
The end-of-semester Environmental Studies "poster" celebration, now branching out to include digital media!
Hooray for trail running! Here we are at our perennial destination, Pittock Mansion, above PDX in January.
Now onto music, starting with none other than Michael McDonald playing at (can you believe it) Canyonville in August...
...then there's Soul Vaccination, playing Jimmy Mak's...
...and Ray LaMontagne playing McMenamin's Edgefield in August...
...and Salif Keita, a Malian artist Joy, Elise, and I have long loved, playing Aladdin in September...
...also playing Aladdin in Nov was James Vincent McMorrow...quite a nice year of musicians coming through the area...stay tuned for more music in 2015...