Images
I.M. Pei
Fourteen years ago, when Angela and I visited Paris, I took this photo inside the Louvre pyramid. I posted it to Flickr with the attached caption.
Pei passed away yesterday at the age of 102 after having forever changed architecture around the world.
My Favorite 9 Photos of 2017
Ok, well, it was pretty much impossible to narrow this down to nine photos. These cover at least some of the highlights of the past year. They may not all be the best photos (even of mine), but they certainly cover a lot of what happened over the past 365 days in just nine pictures.
From left-to-right, top-to-bottom:
- Ainsley looking out over the bow of a Disney Cruise ship last January as we left Miami.
- Pagodas from an ancient temple in South Korea.
- Harry and Maggie hanging out on our stairs.
- Angela, Wyatt, & Ainsley watching the eclipse (well, what we could see of it through the clouds).
- My finished guitar boost pedal.
- Me sporting my first bow tie, which my family gave me for Father’s Day.
- My finished Gundam kit.
- Angela and the kids on one of several Fall hikes we did with our moms.
- Hargie being ridiculously cute.
Bike Riding
It seems like a small thing, but of all the things I’m most proud of this year, it’s getting both kids riding bikes (without training wheels, etc.). For Father’s Day this year, we went on an hour-long ride on one of the greenways in Brentwood, TN.
Playing Some D&D
D&D Encounters — Week 1
Playing the first encounter of the undermountain adventure.
Whiskerino — Day 90
This is my photo tribute to a picture by Trey taken on Day 20 of Whiskerino.
And if that map looks familiar to you (or, perhaps, not all if you’re not a D&D fan), that’s because:
Battle at the Lighthouse
I played D&D at Mike’s place on Sunday evening. We play-tested a new LFR adventure before its release later this year.
The areas above represent the bottom and top floor of a lighthouse the party was storming to take back from an evil skull lord. What’s a Sunday afternoon without pretending to defeat pretend evil?