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JULY 2, 2004
A Few July Evenings by the Lake
The house sits up on a bluff with the lake below it, and a few July evenings running we walked down through the trees to watch the sun go into the water. It's…
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JUNE 5, 2004
Backyard Bonfire on a June Evening
A backyard bonfire tonight, at a house that backs onto a lake — the yard steps down from the deck through rock gardens to a pergola right at the water. We got…
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MARCH 23, 2004·Grand Rapids, Michigan
Just Another Tuesday Photographing the Cats
Just another Tuesday photographing the cats, which is what happens when neither of us leaves the house all evening. The tuxedo one was up on the loft ledge…
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OCTOBER 24, 2003·Grand Rapids, Michigan
October at Home with the New Kittens
Didn't go anywhere today, and didn't need to — the new kittens are still enough of a show that a gray October afternoon in Grand Rapids goes by fast just…
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OCTOBER 5, 2003·Grand Rapids, Michigan
October Afternoon at Home with New Kittens
Stayed in with the new kittens most of the afternoon. The black-and-white one has claimed the carpeted stairs and spent a long stretch draped over the top…
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AUGUST 30, 2003
Labor Day Weekend in San Francisco, Flowers and Fish
Labor Day weekend down in San Francisco, and the fog had the coast to itself. Started at the beach — flat gray water, the cliffs and their houses fading toward…
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AUGUST 15, 2003
Our Michigan Wedding
We got married today, on the dock, under a pergola the florist had covered in roses — white, orange, deep pink — with the lake flat behind us. The chairs went…
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AUGUST 10, 2003
Waterside Lunch in Oranjestad, Aruba
Aruba keeps surprising me with how Dutch it is. Walking through Oranjestad we passed a billboard for a place called Lekker advertising Holland Chinese cuisine,…
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AUGUST 2, 2003
A Summer Wedding by the Water
The ceremony was on the dock, right at the edge of the lake, under a pergola threaded with roses — white and orange ones, some hanging low enough to brush a…
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JULY 1, 2003·Lake Michigan
Boating and a Birthday on Lake Michigan
Out on the pontoon boat first, before the party. The water near shore was flat and green with the trees hanging right down to it, and the wind kept blowing…
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