Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Family. Show all posts
A Few Mid-Winter Break Pictures
A little frozen fog
Trip to "Hidden Falls"
Portaits (Anna's didn't turn out because she kept her hood up)
Crosstraining
New Breakfast of Champions
So ... what do you do when you make a truckload of crème brûlée for New Year's Eve and never get around to eating it at the party?
Some of you may have seen Bill Cosby's sketch on chocolate cake for breakfast?
Well, there's a new breakfast of champions.
Scrapping the bottom of the Ramekin!
Some of you may have seen Bill Cosby's sketch on chocolate cake for breakfast?
Well, there's a new breakfast of champions.
Scrapping the bottom of the Ramekin!
Christmas 2009 Slideshow
As usual, double click on the slideshow for a larger version at the Picasa albums site.
(I'm still working on catching up on the late summer and fall pictures ... someday perhaps.)
Some Random Bits from Anna's Camera
This is what happens when you buy your kids pawnshop video recorders. Free journalism! These were some of the ones of Charis I got off of Anna's camera.
The Great Illinois Trip of 2009, "Part IV: Wandering Chicago"
Going back a ways now ...
The fourth segment of the Great Illinois Trip of 2009 began when we broke up for different day trips. Half of the clan went shopping and the other half rode the bus to Lincoln Park.
Lincoln Park was amazing!
First we took in the conservatory.
Beautiful gardens:
Then we moved on to zoo, which was free and also amazing!
Some of the animals:
When we met up with the other group, we took in the museum of stained glass on Navy Pier.
Finally, here are some miscellaneous shots from the day:
The fourth segment of the Great Illinois Trip of 2009 began when we broke up for different day trips. Half of the clan went shopping and the other half rode the bus to Lincoln Park.
Lincoln Park was amazing!
First we took in the conservatory.
Beautiful gardens:
Then we moved on to zoo, which was free and also amazing!
Some of the animals:
When we met up with the other group, we took in the museum of stained glass on Navy Pier.
Finally, here are some miscellaneous shots from the day:
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Guess Who?
Well, we have our first broken bone in the family.One of the children and I were in the Children's Hospital ER till 12:00 last night (very busy evening, of course). But we learned a lot about the amazing healing power of clavicles and got some Tylenol 3.
Guess who?
Click here to find out.
OK, It's been a while
I'm working on getting back up and running with some blog updates.
It's been a bit of a busy start of the year.
In the meantime, here is a slideshow of Balsbaugh life:
It's been a bit of a busy start of the year.
In the meantime, here is a slideshow of Balsbaugh life:
Nora Photo Shoot
OK, it's a bit uncanny, but this is just Nora.
I point the camera and she does the rest. No direction from me. No posing or positioning.
Grams and Grammy, these are worth double-clicking on the slideshow to see them larger. From the Picasa albums site, click full screen in the top left and then play the slideshow.
Boy are we in for something when she grows up :-)
These were from our recent trip to Echo Cave, just down the bluff from us all these years but hitherto unvisited.
I point the camera and she does the rest. No direction from me. No posing or positioning.
Grams and Grammy, these are worth double-clicking on the slideshow to see them larger. From the Picasa albums site, click full screen in the top left and then play the slideshow.
Boy are we in for something when she grows up :-)
These were from our recent trip to Echo Cave, just down the bluff from us all these years but hitherto unvisited.
A Little Bass Action
Anna landed this on her "Lil' Critters" pole with the help of her friend, Becca.
I was standing nearby with my fly rod yelling, "Just walk it up onto land! Just walk it back!!!"
It was probably 3 1/2 pounds -- enough to keep the fishing bug intact.
The Great Illinois Trip of 2009, "Part III: The AIC"
Now that the summer dust has begun to settle on the new job I can finally get back to some blogging!!!
So, picking up where we left off in the story of the Great Illinois Trip of 2009, we come to our day at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Though I love the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, our friendly upper-Midwestern collection, I must say, the Art Insitute of Chicago was pretty amazing -- even without the new modern wing having opened.
For me it was a time to encounter many old favorites or icons for the first time in person, including:
But even more fun was to discover some new works to delight in, like:
There was also a very nice exhibit of Yousef Karsh photographs. If you don't know Karsh, click here and you will recognize many of his iconographic photographs of famous people from Einstein to Bogart to Che Guevera.
The kids are always troopers in a museum and do, I think, get a lot out of our trips ... up to a point.
So there was a lot of this:
But also some of this:
And fortunately a few rooms like these:
The observation of the day, however, came from the youngest speaking member of the household on this painting:
We had finished the Chronicles of Narnia, oh, a month or two before the trip. And Nora called his one her favorite because it reminded her of the New Narnia at the end of The Last Battle.
Bravo, Baby Girl! "Further up and further in!" I love it.
Some of the best memories from Chicago have to be the trips back to Roscoe Village. No exception here. After the museum, we strolled down to Millennium Park and were captivated by the Cloud Gate.
Here is the entrance to the park:
Here is the Cloud Gate sculpture:
And here is a little slideshow:
Finally ... three more shots I really liked from the train ride and walk back to Roscoe:
So, picking up where we left off in the story of the Great Illinois Trip of 2009, we come to our day at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Though I love the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, our friendly upper-Midwestern collection, I must say, the Art Insitute of Chicago was pretty amazing -- even without the new modern wing having opened.
For me it was a time to encounter many old favorites or icons for the first time in person, including:
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, George Seurat
(detail)
Nighthawks, Edward Hopper
American Gothic, Grant Wood
The Child's Bath, Mary Cassatt
But even more fun was to discover some new works to delight in, like:
African Triptych
The Indestructibles, Philip Evergood
Clown with Dream, Walt Kuhn
Strange Worlds, Todros Gellar
The Black Place, Georgia O'Keefe
There was also a very nice exhibit of Yousef Karsh photographs. If you don't know Karsh, click here and you will recognize many of his iconographic photographs of famous people from Einstein to Bogart to Che Guevera.
The kids are always troopers in a museum and do, I think, get a lot out of our trips ... up to a point.
So there was a lot of this:
But also some of this:
And fortunately a few rooms like these:
The observation of the day, however, came from the youngest speaking member of the household on this painting:
Bordighera, Monet
We had finished the Chronicles of Narnia, oh, a month or two before the trip. And Nora called his one her favorite because it reminded her of the New Narnia at the end of The Last Battle.
Bravo, Baby Girl! "Further up and further in!" I love it.
Some of the best memories from Chicago have to be the trips back to Roscoe Village. No exception here. After the museum, we strolled down to Millennium Park and were captivated by the Cloud Gate.
Here is the entrance to the park:
Here is the Cloud Gate sculpture:
And here is a little slideshow:
Finally ... three more shots I really liked from the train ride and walk back to Roscoe:
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