Family Tree Taylor branch

My great-grandmother Annie Taylor, on the left as a young woman, on the right after ten kids! Below, portrait of 7 of her children (my grand-aunts & uncles) w/spouses.

Family Tree

Me (probably on my b-day b/c i'm wearing red, white & blue) with my pal Jason, in Sherborn MA.

fiery tree

Snapshot of a recent painting I did. And w/ so many kitten shots I finally uploaded one to "i can has cheezburger" http://mine.icanhascheezburger.com/View.aspx?Whatupdawg128477507670468750.jpg

National Root Beer Float Day

So I was thinking about having root-beer floats in my office one of these days, and I was wondering when National Root-beer float day is (August 6th), which is a little bit too far away, so I will let you know when I decide it's international root-beer float day (it's pretty soon).

Gratitude

Giving thanks for another day, another sunrise, another chance to make sense of it all.

Lots to catch up on--not in chronological order

On Thursday I got a call from a friend of mine, Stephanie Brower, who is UCSB's associated students president. She had been asked to introduce Hillary Clinton during Clinton's surprise campaign stop at UCSB. Stephanie asked me to go with her to be her photographer, and Tania graciously took over some hosting duties for me back at home. It was a good night, and I learned some things about photoshoots--when you're about to go backstage, DON'T ask if you can go backstage...although in this situation, the bouncers had guns, being secret service agents, so perhaps asking was the right thing to do. Hillary had some good points, it was great to meet her, it was great to see the students so involved, and I got some good pictures.

they're getting bigger!

ridiculously cute...even more to come. This will temporarily be the all-kitten blog for a while. I'm so kitten-drunk. Even when Brie wakes me up at 5am stabbing me with her bristley little tongue for my early-morning exfoliation (wait, wait, there's a spot right there on your eyelid...and your nose...). Melting!
And a happy, happy birthday to me mum, whom I love more than 200 kittens!