Christmas 2009

Hope everyone is having a good holiday. We think Oliver had the most fun today - unwrapping and playing with his gifts (and very willing to help us with ours!). If it squeaked, crinkled, or came in a box - it was his! The photos really don't show how much he had shredded and spread the wrapping paper.

Trains

As part of my duties as a Bill Long Foundation board member I am serving as a part-time "engineer" during the display of trains at the Oberlin Public Library. This continues a tradition started by the manager (Bill Long) of the Oberlin Co-op Bookstore many years ago. Every 3 or 4 years the board sets up the train display and then runs them for a period. More information and archived photos showing the set-up of this year's display and the trains in past years can be found on their site's Trains page. Clicking on the above photos will take you to my entire collection of larger versions of the train photos (more than a hundred so far). I also serve as the website's webmaster (no surprise there).

Oberlin's Frank Lloyd Wright House

Nicki and I finally toured the Weltzheimer/Johnson House - designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948. Only 3/10's of a mile from our house - we frequently walk our dog past it - we've lived in the neighborhood for almost 30 years and we're only now taking the tour. Small, compact house on a good sized piece of land in a very quiet part of Oberlin. Many typical Frank Lloyd Wright elements. Very informal leisurely tour. I took a few photographs - hard to resist.