Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
New Year's greetings from Rick and Emily Francona!
We wish all of you a prosperous and happy 2011
Some highlights of our 2010
Home in Port Orford - "Living on the Edge"
The new deck - see the evolution in photos
Summer sunrise from the new deck
Summer moon
Autumn moon
View from the solarium
California gray whales off the deck - more photos
New Year at the mouth of the Sixes River
Launch of a new wind sock- more photos
Our house with a dusting in December - once every three years
Doug Hansen, Nancy Fraser and Karen Hansen
more photos
Nikki
February - high 60's
Tea Party rally - yeah, us gun-toting racists....
Emily with John and Muriel Niehaus
Rick in the annual Jerry Can race - more photos
The guys - Nikki and Pasha - in action?
A visitor to the cliff
Muriel and John Niehaus and Hazel and Lonnie Henderson
Lonnie and Rick flew together in the Air Force (a long time ago)
more photos
Rick's grandchildren....
Alexa (2), Dante (6), Dominic (10) and Bella Marie (3)
wish you "Felice Anno Nuovo"
Some of our travels in 2010
Mexico - a week in the Sea of Cortez (more photos) and a week in Cabo San Lucas (more photos)
Rick with fellow USAF linguist Ron Chapelle in Cabo
Cabo hosts Cathy and Paul Peschiera at Finisterra
Zion National Park, Utah - more photos
We also toured Kolob Canyons, Dixie National Forest and Snow Canyon State Park near St George, Utah
(click on name for more photos)
Bryce Canyon National Park - more photos
Hurricane Ridge (more pictures) and Dungeness National Wildlife Reserve (more pictures), Washington
Montana - more pictures
Rick escorted four young ladies on a Rotary Group Study Exchange to four Caribbean islands
Now his "Rotary daughters" - Lillah McBride, Shelly Kane, Monica Holzmer, Heidi Ellis
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 Dominica |
 Martinique |
 St Vincent and the Grenadines |
 Barbados |
Rick with Barbados hosts Vic and Ferida Fernandes
Ferida was Miss Barbados 1988
Cricket on St Vincent - more photos
Rick at Cumberland Bay, St Vincent - more photos
{setting for the movie Pirates of the Caribbean)
Polo on Barbados - more photos
The Defense Language Institute 69th Anniversary Ball - Rick represented the Hall of Fame members (inducted 2006)
Pictured here with commandant Colonel Dino Pick and his Arabic instructor in 1974 Niniv Ibrahim - more photos
Rick traveled to Los Angeles to film an episode of "The Deadliest Warrior" (to air in June) - more photos
On set with an RPK - the type he used in northern Iraq in 1995 (see inset)
Fellow cast members Kilong Ung,
Sabah Khodada and Jonathan Khan
In what is now an annual tradition, we joined friends Beth Myers and Jim Mills at their
ranch
near Creston, California
for a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend - more photos
In Sonoma wine country for the Mazzocco holiday party
more photos
One of Emily's team members - Lisa Cortes - from her Rotary trip to Argentina in 2008 got married
Dinner with actress Liz Montgomery
Wine tasting in Sonoma Valley with the Peschieras
more photos
Visiting Mike and Cheryl Merritt in Carmel - this was a reception for Mike's birthday - more photos. Mike and Cheryl own and operate Twigery in Carmel
Christmas Dinner with the Merritts in Carmel
Cheryl, Mike, EMily, Chris, Rick and Michael
Birds
A sampling of our bird sightings - see the Francona Bird Pages for more
Wood duck
Raven
Red Crossbill
Black-headed grosbeak
"Fred" the tree swallow
Evening grosbeak
Hooded merganser
Visitors
Nancy Fraser and Cathy Peschiera with Emily
Cathy and Paul Peschiera from Eugene, Oregon
Roy and Karen Butts from Dragoon, Arizona - more photos
Nikki Hampton - the daughter we never had...
More photos
Hal and Francie Kibby from Sisters, Oregon
Suzanne St John from Carmel, California
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Rick
and Emily Francona - P.O. Box 1421 - Port Orford, Oregon 97465 rick@francona.net / emily@francona.net www.francona.com www.franconaadvisors.com |
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