New Year's 2006
Wishing you all the best for the next year
                                   -- Rick and Emily Francona

Some highlights of our 2005


Autumn sunrise from the deck



The house - Port Orford, Oregon
On a 250 foot cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean

Emily overlooking the Pacific from the solarium

Sunset and night sky from the deck

The Annual Windsock
Installed in April - shredded by December

Winter
Sunrise and on the dock

Lots of gray whales this year
These are seen from our deck

A double rainbow after a storm

"When the Pacific isn't..."
An approaching Pacific storm
Wind gusts thus far this season have reached 101 miles per hour

Winter in Port Orford

Emily and Nikki Hampton
Nikki is a research scholar mentored by Emily

Emily with Dr Nancy Dowdy
Point Orford Heritage Society fundraiser

What a combination:
A nuclear physicist/electrical and nuclear engineer
and a trained intelligence officer
What are they talking about?
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Rick and the restoration of 36498
This is what the fundraisers are for
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Emily on the firing range in Montana
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Emily's 
website
and
blog

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Emily was awarded a Paul Harris fellowship 
during her year as president of the 
Port Orford Rotary Club

Rick's grandsons Dante and Dominic

The guys
Nikki (female) - in charge
Pasha (male)

Tough living...
Lots of miles on the car this year



Emily in Monterey
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Trip to Montana to visit Carol and Dave Elliott
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Niniv Ibrahim
One of Rick's Arabic language instructors
from more years ago than either will admit
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Chicago

Rick and Emily with Doug and Elaine Carmichael
Doug is a former USAF A-1 "Sandy" pilot

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Visitors

Top:  Airlee Owens, us, Darr and Leslie King, the Kings, Stan and Cindy Hitt
Middle:  Sandy Edens/Jenise Flowers, Nicola Mallik, Georgeann Dunn (two bottles?)
Bottom:  Emily's mother Grete Bartesch, Russ and Bev Smith (with their 1931 Model A)

 Rick's third year as an NBC News analyst.  It's a tough job....


The Ladies of MSNBC
Clockwise from top left:
Lisa Daniels - married this year to former Army Ranger -  "Hu-wa"
Erin Anderson - or as we military analysts call her, "the boss"
Alex Witt - "Weekends R Us" - no doubt who is in charge
Alison Stewart - one smart lady (note wardrobe coordination)

MSNBC Connected with Monica Crowley
 

With fellow MSNBC military analyst
Medal of Honor recipient Col Jack Jacobs
 
 

MSNBC Countdown with Keith Olbermann

NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams
 

NBC Nightly News
Turning our living room into a studio
 

CNBC - The Dennis Miller Show
Gotta love the Peacock....

Come Visit - or Drop a Line
Rick and Emily Francona
P.O. Box 1421 - Port Orford, Oregon 97465
rick@francona.net  /  emily@francona.net