Brian

Catrina and Joanna

Alex. Shot with fill-flash. He was annoyed and wasn't happy. Poor kid.

Lake George

Lake George

Harry, Lake George

Lake George

Summer 05, Kissena Park

In the backyard

Soccer, Fall, 2005

The joy of running. A bit of technical details: I was shooting this using Aperture priority. F-stop set at f8 and the shutter recorded is 1/50 sec. Also, I used continous and dynamic focusing.

Acorn Street, Beacon Hill, Boston

Probably the most photographed street in Boston. Cobblestones look good on photos, but not friendly for walking.

Boston's best underappreciated museum...

MIT museum. I consider it a children's museum. Whimsical machinery or toys are on display almost every where. The machine behind is called "Machine with Wishbone." Click the picture and view it in 100% and you should be able to read the caption.

Union Oyster House

America's oldest restaurant, where the food is good and the light is dim. And if you like, like I did, you can order a 2 lbs lobster, boiled, for a mere $45.95 (I knew it's seasonal price, but I did not know the dollar price, most expensive dish I ever ordered), baked potato included. Harry is no seafood eater, he just enjoyed looking at the monster.

Quincy Market

This is Alex first serious posing, other than the usual Power Ranger grand standing.

Boston Children's Museum...

Rock climbing, a sport not too young to pick up.

Russell Crowe in Blundstones

I am just watching the Late Night Show with Conan O'Brien. Russell Crowe is the guest promoting his latest flick, "Cinderella Man," (which makes the show a repeat, and I confirmed that with my TV Guide) and talking about his phone whirling incident. I saw him wearing a pair of #500 Blundstones, the stout brown pull up boots. I have a pair of #510, the black ones myself. They are really comfortable and durable. The total opposite of the over-priced and under-performed Birkenstocks. I own a pair of London, and I resoled that a couple of times; the most expensive shoes I ever bought not even counting the resoles. I just checked my PayPal account, I paid $78 on Sep 17, 2001 for my Blundstones. Now, I would have to pay like more than a $100 to get them shipped to my home here in New York.

Boston Children's Museum

Here is Harry playing in the "Construction Zone." He enjoyed crashing the toy trucks there. Harry the destroyer. You can find out more about the musuem here.

Holiday Inn Select at Woburn, next to I-95

Harry is resting in a full sized bed in suite room 437. The rate was $80 a night, and $96 for Monday and Tuesday. So we ended up paying about $300 for the 3 nights we spent there. Unlike the Holiday Inn Express we stayed in last time near CamelBack, PA, this one didn't have a microwave or refrigerator. But this is like the cheapest one closest to Boston. This one also offers free Wi-Fi access so I can get my Internet fix while on the road. I have been bringing my G3 iBook for all our family trips, it works as a DVD player on board of our Odyssey. I have yet to figure out how to get the iBook's audio play on the car's audio system.

Peabody Children Museum, New Haven

Peabody Children Museum where dinosaurs roam free. Children just love dinosaurs, so always go where the dinosaurs go if you have young children.