Sonoma Wine Country
Sunrise from the deck
Another gorgeous day on the south Oregon coast
From the solarium
Skies on a clear summer night - note Orion's Belt
Grey whale about 500 feet off the deck
Grey whale sounding
Restored B-17 over the house as it goes from airshow to airshow
Visitors
Suleyman and Oya Girit from Istanbul, Turkey
Ulli Fenner from Germany
Top: Marion and Helmut Krueger from Germany, Mary Mallik from Australia, her daughter Nic now from Texas A & M
Bottom: Rick and Nic - Emily with Mary and Nic
Helmut and Marion Kreuger
Fairly routine USAF aerial refueling training over the house
Life on the Edge
The "super" full moon
First fire of the season
Dinner in San Francisco with long-time friends and former neighbors Karl and Margie Finkelnburg of Alexandria, Virginia
Happy hours with Mike and Cheryl Merritt at our studio and at Il Fornaio in Carmel, California
A special treat - a visit from our goddaughter Laura Morehouse - shown in 2012 and with Rick in 1991
Friends and USAF colleagues Jim and Carol Morehouse
and daughters Sarah and Laura
Oldest grandson Dominic - hitting .579!!
Out this year - and available (click on image)
The ride turned 100,000
RIP - General Norman Schwarzkopf
Rick served as his interpreter during the Gulf War
Special treat - impromptu concert by singer Katelyn Clampett
(our Carmel landlady's granddaughter)
Rick did a few interviews for CNN over the Benghazi debacle
Scotland
(for more, see Scotland)
Amstruther
Balmoral - the Queen's summer residence
The Firth rail bridge
Glamis Castle - home of the late Queen Mother
Rick and Emily on the 18th fairway at the Royal and Ancient course at St. Andrews
St Andrews
Stirling Castle
The unicorn - symbol of Scotland
We like the grape motif
The RMS Discovery (Antarctic exploration ship)
At the Green Machine factory with Celia Norton
(our hostess on a Rotary Exchange program) - she visits us in 2013
Tullibardine Distillery
Even Emily liked it
Highlands
Falkirk Wheel lock replacement
Highland dancer and piper
Rick wearing the tartan of the Ancient Urquhart
If you care, this is where the royal couple met
Rick, as you all suspected, is a big royalist....
Tullibardine Distillery
England
(for more, see England)
West Mersea, Essex - home of friends Jeremy and Lizzie Dumas
Jeremy was the British Defense Attache in Syria when Rick was the U.S. Air Attache
Emily on board the M/Y Ivy Green - the Dumas' boat
The flag is Jeremy's regiment - the Royal Artillery
Jeremy and Lizzie with the dinghy Whitey - transport to the yacht
York Minster
York Minster
York Minster
York friend (and guide extraordinaire) Andrew Hawksworth
Castle Howard (used to film Brideshead Revisited)
Rocky Mountain Swing
Montana - Wyoming - Colorado - Utah - Idaho
(For more, see Rocky Mountain West)
Aspens
Aspens
Aspens
Estes Park, entrance to the Rocky Mountain National Park
Aspen
Friend (and excellent guide) Joyce Golhofer with Emily
Elk
Nice
Clark's Nutcracker
Montana
(for more Montana, see Montana)
With longtime friends and USAF colleagues Carol and Dave Elliott of Gallatin Gateway
Pronghorn antelope
At the Elliott range
Rick with a Kimber .45
Emily with a .22 Woodsman
Fires were still raging - this is a suppression aircraft
Wyoming
(for more, see Wyoming)
Yellowstone National Park
Bison
Coyote
Mount Shasta, California
Mexico
(for more, see Mexico)
Humpback whales playing in the Sea of Cortez
Sunset over the Pacific - sort of like home
Emily at sunset from our villa
(we and 49 of our closest friends own it)
The villa
Paul Peschiera, Emily,
Cathy Peschiera
and Rick at our favorite hangout
Oriole
Sonoma Wine Country
(for more, see Sonoma Wine Country)
Hop Kiln Winery - built by imported Italian masons as a kiln for hops
Kunde Winery
Our favorite zinfandel producer
Sonoma City Hall
