what I never want to forget.

New York Part 1...

Times Square...

Happy Hour

The view from the 86th floor of the Empire State Building.

Our hotel: The Wellington and The Central Park Cafe where we dined at 2:30 in the morning.

The view out our hotel suite window looking down onto Seventh Avenue

Our stroll through Central Park

Our visit to Ground Zero

How thirsty we were...

more to come.

bags are packed.

not sure how i'll sleep tonight...

road trip to SF

First Stop: AT&T Park. Home of The Giants.

Golden Gate Bridge.

Some R & R at Lisa & Frank's place.

love the colors of the city.

Photography Workshop with Shannon Sewell.  You can see the day's outcome here.  the kids were fabulous.

This was workshop #2 for Lisa & I.

Mother's Day breakfast.  perfect.

I felt it was important for mom to have a special corsage.  can you see it?

Avery snuck her card into her suitcase and brought it along on the trip for me.

Top of the morning love.

An after breakfast walk to dad's growing up house just a few blocks away.  The current owner invited us all in for a tour.

Great Grandma Galli's house.

The only question that remained at the end of the weekend was: when are we going back?

last night...

we hiked.