Retired Beauty Queens

northeastern New Mexico, August 2008. No, we didn't really get this close.

Broomfield, CO: Somehow, I can't help thinking of a moth-eaten quilt

Rocky Mountain National Park, August 2008

the view in our back yard this morning, photo by my housemate Kathleen - July 2008

good morning, sunshine! - Arvada, CO, July 2008

Prague, June 19, 2008

June, 2008: Dresden

June, 2008 - a roof full of sky: renovations in downtown Lecco, during a bout of sunshine, which has been unfortunately and unusually rare this spring!

everything old is new again: Teeran and me at our Woodstock graduation, 1981

Brinda and I went on the old wooden roller coaster on the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk - which was scarier than I remembered

carousel, San Francisco

the glamour of corporate travel: Curious George and the Mussoorie Monster show what it's really like - another day, another conference room

Enrico on his first visit to Colorado, April, 2008

Ross self-portrait

Great Horned Owlets scoping out the office space at Sun's Broomfield campus - April, 2008

I stuck this Ashleigh Brilliant card on my diary in 1982. Eternal truths...

Ross and cat, Mussoorie, Nov 2007

the view from my office in Broomfield, CO - Feb, 2008
Himalayas to Alps to Rockies - mountains are obviously a theme in my life

Boulder, Colorado - Feb 6, 2008

^ we went to Torino, and I haven't had time to write about it yet. Now I'm in California...

^ another piece by artist Rashmi Dogra - a tin valise, again with a Kathakali dancer's face - this was my Christmas present for me!

purse hand-decorated by artist Rashmi Dogra with a Kathakali dancer's face - Ross' major Christmas present this year

I have not tried dragan (dragon?) fruit yet - never heard of it before. Note the strawberries, cherries, and plums - none of these were available in India a few years ago.

mother & daughter cowboy boots, custom-made in Mussoorie

another gorgeous winterline sunset, Mussoorie

The Taming of the Shrew - Bollywood style!

Lake Como, Nov 2007

Valtellina

Venice!

San Francisco, Sep 2007

ev'rybody knows I love my toes...

when geeks do urban planning - Broomfield, CO - Aug 2007

flowering balcony in Pescarenico, July 2007

Lecco, June 2007

at the beach - July 6, 2007

artichoke flower, used decoratively at Bar Cova in Lecco.
I never knew they flowered like this (if not eaten)

~ Jun 13, 2007 - An ostentatiously stupid vehicle for an Italian mountain village

stormy weather - Jun 2007

FemCamp Bologna, May 26 - Amanda interviews Mafe

Colorado sunset - Boulder, May 18, 2007

raindrops on roses - indeed some of my favorite things

Milan Design Week 07 -
this was taken in the courtyard of Castello Sforzesco!

Apr 15, 2007

this year's tulips - Italian garden 2007

Colorado, March 2007

Infant apricots on the young tree in our garden. late March, 2007

^ Alpini in Lecco, March 2007

For my home page, I naturally try to select from among my very best photos. When I change the front-page photo I then try to "retire" the old photo to some appropriate page. But sometimes there isn't (or isn't yet) a good home for a particular photo. So a good photo disappears, never to be seen again.

I can't bear to see anything go to waste, so this page is hereby instituted as the museum of ex-front page photos.