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Fun with Cameras and Mirrors

For no particular reason, I thought I'd take some self-portrait shots while in London. Well I guess it was because while I was all dressed up for the conference I thought it would be nice to have some photos. Here are some of the results:

     

 

  

Even More Cambridge Pix

The last couple of days I've had my younger sister-in-law and her partner in town visiting, so we've been trekking around town once more. The weather has been grey, but largely pleasant enough, and I got to see some new sights today too.

We toured King's College Chapel, and this time I got to see it from the tower of Great St Mary's across the street...

St Mary's itself looks a bit like this (on a much nicer day, of course)...

many other gorgeous sights today, including the Bridge of Sighs at St John's College:

and finally (for now) a lovely view of the Robinson chapel lit up from the inside.

Cloudscape at Haleakala

Browsing through photos from last year, here's one that caught my eye. Clouds swirling around Haleakala at about 10,000 ft. with the sun trying to break through.

Reno to Seattle

Images Gallery

Some photos I've taken this year.

Photos Uploaded

Just a note to say that I've uploaded a couple of photo albums - King's College Chapel and Advent Service 2007 - that you can see in the sidebar on the right.

Victoria Trip Photos

See the Victoria March 2007 album on the right.

More seaplanes and mountains, I'm afraid. Some cool shots flying back.

More UK Adventures

Once again I am in the beautiful, busy city of Cambridge in England for a technical meeting with a whole raft of people working on the Silent Aircraft Initiative. I've never been much of a fan of traveling alone, and this is my first trip alone since the last time I was here back in June 2005.

The flight over was fun - it's always fun being pampered in business class - especially on the incomparable British Airways. This time around I had a rear facing window seat, which allowed me to snap a few pictures of Mt. Rainier to the south after we took off. Here's one:

Mt Rainier is that fuzzy dark grey blob to the left in the layer just under the pink.

Anyway, it was also the most perfect way to see the wing of the 747 do its thing.

An added bonus of this trip is that I get to meet Maggi Dawn again. If everything works out OK, we're having lunch today. Then this evening it's off to dinner at Magdalene College, followed by the all day meeting on Friday at, of all places, Robinson College, which is where Maggi hangs her professional hat.

I'm hoping to get to The Imperial War Museum at Duxford again, as their fantastic remodel of their old main hangar, "Airspace", is now open, although not totally complete. I may get there today or possibly Saturday on the way back to Heathrow.

House Building Progress

I'll probably post the odd photo or two of house building progress, but for now I've put up a photo album (right sidebar) cunningly disguised with the title "House Progress" so you can see what's happened to date (mostly dirt moving and concrete pouring.)

For those of you not from the US it should be an interesting view of how houses get built here.

Only three months to go now...

Here's a photo of the model home master bedroom (very similar to how ours will be) - a view from the master bathroom across the master bedroom (ugliest bed cover EVER@!) to the other side of the "master retreat". That's a three sided gas fireplace that separates the main bedroom area from the sitting area.

Flickr ec2005 Photos

I just uploaded all my remaining good convention photos to Flickr.

They're tagged emergent convention ec2005 San Diego, so check 'em out if you like. In addition to the Blogger's Lunch that have been there for a while, there are some from the women's leadership lunch, some stills from the worship times and some from the learning community times.

In order to get the upload size reasonable I did compress them down a bit, so if there's one that you'd like a full sized version of, just let me know.