Blogger Makes Me Very Irrrrrritated

So I understand no one could see the pictures.  Awesome.  Perhaps I will try to fix them at some later point but sadly don't have time right now; if you really want to see them try the links at the bottom for lots more photos anyway (especially the second one).  In the meantime I'll try to remember that throwing my computer doesn't cause the internet any pain.

Thinking Sunny Summer Things

Hey all, we're back to the weekly grind out here.  And it's January.  So instead of me whining, it seems like an opportune time to do a summer retrospective.  And show off my dear boyfriend's mad photography skillz.  Apologies if this takes forever to load (no worries for Janet and the supahcomputah!)

August 2010

Wizard Island, or, the remains of Mt. Mazama's
eruption cone

Crater Lake at Sunset

20 Minutes of South Central Oregon Sky

These wacky guys are very very very old lava vents.
Mariel, take it away!

He is incapable of staying out of any water,
even if that water is 45 degrees
(at least there is no ice this time)

Another one for Mariel: this was an old lava
vent, and when everything else eroded, the igneous
didn't (did I get that right?)

I am a lava bubble!

How to void the warranty on your Volkswagen Golf
(and send your girlfriend into a conniption fit)

So if you notice I may have scraped the passenger side
mirror along the entire inside of the tree.  Eli reminds
me every 0.5 seconds that I am the only person he
knows to ever hit a tree at 1 mph in broad daylight.
Who wants to loan me their keys?

The Corkscrew Tree.  We had a picnic in it.

Redwoods are enormously wonderful trees.

You should visit if you haven't already. 

The Oregon Coast is not shabby either.

Of course, Eli is now here:

The Bahamas

So as far as we're concerned, he can just go...

...swim with the fishies.

This has been [largely] an Eli Stevens production.

Not that I'm biased, but he's pretty dang awesome.

Go here

or here

for further proof.

We now return to our regularly scheduled mid-winter doldrums.  I'm already starting my paper-chain countdown for next summer (hint: it involves whole other hemispheres!!)