Work and family demands left no time for a photo today so I dipped into the archive. Nico in his first tuxedo taken while the family was in France attending a wedding. He balanced atop a pedestal in front of the chateau where we spent the week.
This morning a colleague and I visited with a Sonos customer to observe and take notes as they unpacked and setup one of our new systems. Seeing this first hand is invaluable as we fine tune our products to maximize out of the box satisfaction. We walked and took local transit to the downtown Boston location and I grabbed this shot along the way.
Kyle’s church youth group and the chaperons who will be traveling with them to Transylvania this summer to visit our sister church there. Kyle’s soccer team suffered a very disappointing 2-1 loss, Nicolai scored a header to help his team to a 2-0 win, and I was on the sidelines this week nursing my injured knee.
Jeanine and I also cleaned up for a neighborhood social event. Photo courtesy of Maya.
Neither Kyle nor Chloe seemed very interested in being photographed, but I do rather like this shot which I caught between poses.
Kyle and Chloe just before leaving for the CCHS Sophmore Semi-Formal Dance.
Maya helped her team to a 5-2 win today showing fine form throughout the hard fought match. Pound for pound she may be the toughest of the Calabria’s on a soccer pitch.
Jeanine poses with her new beds. Later on we fill them with compost and top soil. Tomorrow they will be ready to plant.
The entire family pitched in to complete Jeanine’s new vegetble garden. I started by leveling three pads for the raised beds which Jeanine helped me to set in place. The kids transported and installed wood chips around the beds to create a three foot wide path on all sides.
As an early Mother’s Day present I built three raised garden beds for Jeanine. Tomorrow I will install them in the rototilled soil in the background. Each bed is 6ft x 3ft x 1ft tall. She would also like me to make her a new composting bin. I am trying to talk her into an elevated drum based design but she seems to be leaning towards a more traditional multiple bin approach.
Jeanine’s dear friend Aliza (center) celebrates her 50th birthday with a potluck dinner. Jeanine prepared an almond espresso chocolate cake which was simply out of this world (we got to sample the left overs).
I changed up my commute this evening and took Memorial Drive which follows the Charles River. While stopped in traffic I grabbed a quick shot of two women crew teams training on the water. Telephoto compression makes it appear that they are very close and that the river is very narrow. Just the opposite is true.
Although we get four distinct seasons here in New England, spring is by far the shortest. In a matter of a few weeks we enjoy an explosion of color before everything turns green. This scene is of the horse farm that is across the street from our house.
My favorite piece of art was without a doubt Renoir’s, Dance at Bougival. The woman in the painting reminds me of a young Jeanine.