http://www.sarahandrussell.com/ Blog RSS http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:18:01 -0400 Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040814/ sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 14 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040814/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040815/ Richland, Washington -> Glacier National Park We woke up this morning to find that somebody had tried to steal the bikes off the back of the car. The bike rack and both bikes were dumped on the pavement, and the contents of the bike bag were neatly laid out around the whole mess. We had bought a cable lock and locked...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 15 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040815/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040816/ Glacier National Park We got a good bit of rain during the night. We hadn't planned on rain, as it was perfectly clear when we went to bed. The fly was still in the car, so it was a bit of a panic to find the fly half asleep in the middle of the night. After arriving at Glacier so late in...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 16 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040816/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040817/ sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 17 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040817/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040818/ Sheridan, Wyoming -> Dickinson, ND Today was a long day of sight-seeing as well as driving. We started early-ish and drove to Devil's Tower in Wyoming. It was busy, but we walked the trail around it, more amused at the people there and their conversations than the huge tower of rock above us. But seriously, its an amazing feature. The photos...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Wed, 18 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040818/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040819/ Dickinson, ND -> Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN Note: Coffee has been a problem. Starbucks hasn't infiltrated this market yet; in fact it seems the only place to get a cup of coffee of any stripe is to sit down at a restaurant, pull into a Burger King, or make it yourself. I've been tempted to dig the espresso machine out of the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040819/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040820/ Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN -> Gurnee, IL We lighted late last night at a Holiday Inn in a suburb north of St. Paul. It was a short sleep, and we were up again around 7:00 to get back on the road. We found a strip-mall kind of bagel shop to get breakfast and coffee. It was a wonderful surprise to see the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Fri, 20 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040820/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040821/ Gurnee, IL -> Elkhart, IN We woke up this morning and turned on the local news as we were getting ready. The lead story immediately caught our attention. "two million people are descending on Chicago this morning for the annual Air and Water Show! With games at Wrigley Field and Soldier Field, be prepared for traffic tie-ups all over the city...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 21 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040821/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040822/ Elkhart, IN -> Erie, PA The day began early. Earlier than we even realized, in fact. I started awake at 7:45 in a panic. We had agreed last night to be up at 7:00 and out of the hotel parking lot by 8:00. We calculated that this really meant that we would be on the road by 9:00, because Indiana is...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 22 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040822/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040823/ Erie, PA -> Watertown, NY As we are now within spitting distance from Boston, making great strides across the country each day is not important. If we wanted to be there today, we could be. But, sticking to our planned schedule, and still wanting to see NY and Vermont, we decided to continue in short hops and along back roads for...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040823/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040824/ Watertown, NY -> South Royalton, VT We look today's shorter itinerary as an opportunity to sleep in a little. By the time we checked out of the motel and found bagels for breakfast, they could have passed for lunch. Watertown, a medium-sized city with its back to a beautiful rushing river, was buzzing with kayakers. Vans and trucks circled the downtown...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 24 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040824/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040825/ South Royalton, VT -> Boston, MA We made it! South Royalton was a perfect place to stay last night because it's only about two and a half hours from Boston. (And on a personal note, I'm thrilled to be so close to such a good friend, so far from home!) We had planned to be into Boston early...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040825/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040829/ Well, we've settled (or are beginning to) in a new apartment in Medford MA, just East of Tufts University. We have the first floor of this two family house. The owner lives upstairs with his family. These photos were taken the day we moved in on the 29th of August. We've slowly been collecting furniture and the place is beginning...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040829/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040906/ Britta came down from South Royalton to visit the big city over Labor Day. We spent all day Sunday around Harvard Square, then drove about twenty minutes northwest of our house to Concord and Lexington. We visited author's ridge in the Sleepy Hollow cemetery, and then drove on to Walden Pond, which we walked around until sunset. On Monday,...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 6 Sep 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040906/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040919/ On Sunday, I spent the early morning hours in a Police Boat touring the Mystic River. What an amazing experience and a perfect way to get acquainted with the city! I guess this situation requires a bit of explanation, so let me back up a little. In my environmental law class, the primary project of the term is a...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 19 Sep 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040919/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040920/ Thanks to family, friends, and IKEA, we've managed to cobble together enough furniture dampen the hollowness of our empty apartment. Ready for the pages of Sunset magazine it's not, but we're getting there. Our next goal is to hang some of the pictures we brought out. Having only ever lived in big, modern, complex-style apartments together,...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 20 Sep 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040920/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040925/ Feeling restless on a beautiful fall Saturday, we took off on a trip to Cape Cod. For so much talk from friends about "the Cape," we felt it was high time we saw it for ourselves. The drive was a bit farther than we expected, but traffic was light, and we had nothing better to do. We drove...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 25 Sep 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/040925/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041002/ Cee Cee arrived special delivery on an American Airlines flight into Logan Airport on a Saturday evening in mid-September. Although her food and piddle pad were completely disheveled in the cage, she survived the trip untraumatized. She greeted our faces with a chirp through the wire cage gate, shoving her wet nose as far as it would go...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 2 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041002/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041010/ Fall has arrived here in New England. We've felt the first frosts, experienced the building anticipation of the coming World Series (the mass excitement is palpable around here), and are looking forward to peak color on the trees in Boston. Apple picking trips leave each weekend from campus, sponsored by various clubs, and the pumpkin lights and hanging...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 10 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041010/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041015/ Another great opportunity to explore the inner workings of the city came up last night during my Water Systems and Technology course. A class of undergradutes were going to get a tour of the Quabbin Reservoir and spaces were still available for some of us graduate students to tag along. Since I don't have classes on Fridays, it...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041015/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041016/ Sarah told me that she saw a locomotive in Ware on her trip on Friday (see previous entry) that was "pretty, all black with a curved roof, and said Massachusetts Central Railroad." This of course piqued my interest as 1) I had never heard of Mass Central Rwy, 2) I love shortlines, and 3) I was itching for a drive...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041016/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041017/ My uncle Jim lives down in Bristol, RI, and is an avid sailor. He needed to sail a friend's boat around Popasquash Point and into Warren, where it would be repaired and stored for the winter. He offered us the opportunity to join him on this short run. The owner of the boat, Ross, was with us, as well as...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 17 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041017/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041025/ Several of you have said you'd like to see pictures of campus, so I took my camera along with me one day last week to capture the places I frequent. Since most of my classes are during the evenings, I don't spend very much time on campus. This semester, I have a Monday and Wednesday class in the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 25 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041025/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041028/ Wow, what a night! The Sox obliterated their 86 year love-hate relationship with loss, bringing the entire city of Boston into the streets with honking, hand-slapping, beer spraying, broom waving pandemonium. Now, you all know that Russell and I are not sports people. I spent the majority of the first three world series games asking Russell what was going...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Thu, 28 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041028/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041031/ We've described our apartment in words and pictures, and now here are some pictures of the neighborhood. In the last few weeks, Halloween decorations have invaded the front yards around our house, and our own front porch has not been spared from decoration. Inflatable glowing pumpkins, rivaling the great pumpkin in bulk and flair, are surprisingly popular...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 31 Oct 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041031/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041113/ Rumor has it that the earlier the snow starts to fall around here, the snowier the rest of the winter will be. If this mid-November snowstorm is any indication, we're in for a cold and white season! At this point, in our naive west-coast excitement, we're really looking forward to it. Poll us again in March and...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041113/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041117/ Having Michael in town has been fun. We've gotten out and done things that we haven't had an excuse to do yet, and--even better--he came to town full of recommendations from other people for restaurants we hadn't discovered so far. When Michael leaves, we'll be left with a list of new places to try. On Wednesday, we decided to...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Wed, 17 Nov 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041117/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041118/ This is just a quick entry to share a few photos of MIT that we took on a walk down that way with Michael. Most are of the new Frank Gehry building on campus. It's a typically strange looking structure from the outside, and the occupants inside match its eclecticity: on the main directory, you'll find everything from the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Thu, 18 Nov 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041118/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041128/ It's Sunday, the last day of the long holiday weekend. This morning we woke up to heavy grey skies--ominous and oppressive just like the papers that still need to be written and the projects left to be done before Christmas break. Despite the nagging tension, we decided that we didn't want to spend yet another day inside the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041128/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041129/ The christmas lights are up on the house! ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 29 Nov 2004 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/041129/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050123/ Well, we've survived the blizzard of '05. More snow fell last night in our front yard than we've probably seen fall--total--in our entire lives. This was a storm that even the most bitter New Englander could get excited about. By noon, with flurries still swirling, dozens of our neighbors were out shoveling snow and greeting us with...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 23 Jan 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050123/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050206/ This is the first weekend in a while where we've had one day free with absolutely, positively nothing to do. Russell had no work, and I finished my study groups on Saturday, leaving Superbowl Sunday wide open for an adventure. So what did we do? Got in the car to find some elevation and crisp mountain air. The White...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 6 Feb 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050206/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050213/ This is just a short entry, because this is a place that needs much more exploring before we can say much about it. We learned several things on this Sunday trip up the Maine coastline. First, the distances between points in New England are small, but not that small. What we thought would be a pleasantly long...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050213/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050220/ If you slice the Commonwealth of Massachusetts* into four equal vertical portions, the western-most slice--about the size of Rhode Island--is a region loosely known as the Berkshires. It is a geography of rolling mountains (consider "mountain" a relative concept and these certainly qualify) and polished towns that boast themselves to be collectively "America's Premier Cultural Resort." We had...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050220/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050409/ After an early lunch with relatives in Providence, we headed over Woods Hole to catch a ferry to Martha's Vineyard. We hadn't been over there yet, and thought it would be a good time to explore the island a bit while the weather was good and it was still the "off season." We had to wait about an hour for the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 9 Apr 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050409/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050507/ Well, it's not exactly Boston... Sarah is in Sedona Arizona this week visiting her parents, and she's sending photos back to me periodically. Sedona is simply too beautiful not to pass these photos on. I'll select a few to post here in a more casual format than normal (as Sarah is having way too much fun down there to have...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 7 May 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050507/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050528/ We headed up to New Hampshire on Saturday of the holiday weekend to climb our first New England mountain. We were pleasantly surpised when we got to the trail head and there were actually still places to park! We headed up the trail, and passed a bunch of people coming down, but didn't have much competition along the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 28 May 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050528/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050703/ Just a thirty-minute boat ride from the wharfs of downtown Boston is the Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. When Russell's parents came to visit us, we escaped the city one hot and humid afternoon to explore this little-known collection of quiet oases in plain view of Boston's high rises. While not quite wilderness refuges, the islands' evidence of...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 3 Jul 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050703/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050704/ What city in America celebrates the 4th of July better than Boston? Now that we've been here, felt the chords and canons of the Boston Pops' 1812 Overture while sitting shoulder to shoulder with hundreds of thousands of other people on the banks of the Charles, any other fireworks display, concert, or community parade will pale in the excitement...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 4 Jul 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050704/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050806/ For our anniversary, we spent a fabulous weekend in Washington D.C. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050806/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050904/ Ending the summer on a great note, Russell and I spent a week in Sedona. We did a lot of relaxing, gearing down from the summer routine of full-time employment and for Russell, slogging to work at midnight for the third shift of editing. Most importantly, we soaked up lots of sun to help us make it through another...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 4 Sep 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050904/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050913/ sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/050913/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051002/ It's Sarah's parent's first day in Boston, and after a hellish morning of trying to navigate Cambridge during Oktoberfest, we decided it would probably be best to head out of town as far and fast as we could. It was a beautiful, cool day so we struck out towards salt air, seafood, and Cape Ann. We got off of the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 2 Oct 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051002/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051013/ Well, our camera finally used up its ninth life. It's been good to us through all of our adventures over the past nine months... up and down mountains, over the waves, and through the woods. It even survived a life as an occasional cat toy. But it's no match for Sarah in a Honey Bucket. Sarah...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Thu, 13 Oct 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051013/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051022/ This weekend we took a much-anticipated trip up north to stay with our friend Michael in a cabin that belongs to a friend of his family. The cabin is up north near Ellsworth, Maine, and about 270 miles from Boston. Wanting to get as much out of the weekend as we could, we left around 7:00 on Friday after we...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 22 Oct 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051022/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051210/ Wanting to do something fun to celebrate Sarah finishing her term at Tufts, and our last weekend together before she flew back to Portland, we had bought tickets to ride on a historic train and visit Sarah's friend Britta who's at law school up in Vermont. The train ride was really more of something that I was interested in than...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 10 Dec 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051210/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051227/ It's been a relatively mild, snowless winter in Boston so far, at least compared to last year. So, when we arrived home for the holidays in Portland, we were eager to head up to the mountains to get a little snow play out of our systems--northwest style! We brought along Sarah's cousin, Mark. He's from Texas and this was...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 27 Dec 2005 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/051227/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060310/ We've been a lot of places over the last 18 months, but as you've all noticed, our postings have become fewer and further between. School and work have taken over our lives, and the New England mentality is perhaps even soaking into our bones-why leave home... what could possibly be out there to explore? This weekend, our Oregon...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Fri, 10 Mar 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060310/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060415/ It's been warm and sunny this last week in Boston, so we felt it was a good time to go see the first blooms of spring emerging from depths of winter down at the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain. What a treat it was! The trees are still just sticks with a few green buds, and a lot of the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060415/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060427/ Goslings made their appearance at Bellevue Pond in the Middlesex Fells this week. Since the beginning of April, I have been walking the trails in the Fells every morning, starting at Bellevue Pond. Three weeks back, the trees were little more than sticks, and my daily wildlife glimpses were limited to blackbirds, garter snakes, and ants. The second week...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060427/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060429/ I wanted to share a few pictures that I took in the Boston Public Garden on Saturday. We were down there with our friend Michael, who was showing his dad and grandmother around the city. The flowers aren't really out yet, but there were still a few trees in bloom, including the beautiful pink one. The grass was starting...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 29 Apr 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060429/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060430/ As May draws nearer, we have had to confront the fact that our time remaining on the east coast is finite. Although we have done a lot in our two years in Boston, we have not done it all. The most startling omission from our travels is New York City, and as we made our lists of things...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 30 Apr 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060430/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060521/ sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 21 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060521/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060522/ Boston, MA -> Philadelphia, PA After a grueling battle with traffic on the Mass Pike inbound from I-95 to Logan, to drop off Sarah's mom with our cat, and then back outbound again to I-84, we finally broke free of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts! It made us feel a little sad, but at the same time... not. The drive down south through...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 22 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060522/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060523/ Philladephia, PA -> Roanoke, VA It has been a challenge to transition from frantic moving mode to relaxed vacation mode. Deadlines, details accomplished and details left undone swirl in our heads, stirred up periodically by phone calls from the moving company and panic bursts of "did you remember to do that?!" But, thankfully, the growing distance between us and...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 23 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060523/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060524/ Roanoke, VA -> Great Smokey Mountains NP We stayed at another Best Western last night - our fifth consequtive night at the chain - outside Roanoke near the airport. We were up at a pretty decent time, skipped the white bread and fake butter continental breakfast, found the nearest Starbucks, and got on the road southbound towards Greenboro, NC, and, ultimately,...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Wed, 24 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060524/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060525/ Great Smokey Mountains NP -> Baton Rouge, LA Another long day in the car. Six states and some 600+ miles. Our behinds are melting into the car seats, and our legs are getting lazy. It's pretty quiet in the car, just the two of us. The iPod provides only so much entertainment, and we sure are looking...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Thu, 25 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060525/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060526/ Hammond, LA - Houston, TX (We're having a hard time finding a connection out here fast enough to upload the photos from today. We'll see if there's anything in Santa Fe, but it may have to wait until Salt Lake City on Thursday night. Gotta love the west.) Well, we didn't quite make it to Baton Rouge on Thursday night. We opted...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Fri, 26 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060526/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060528/ Houston, TX -> Las Vegas, NM We left Houston this morning bright and early, and pretty much on time. Grandpa got up to make us breakfast and see us off. Our car is riding quite a bit lower now, and it is noticably heavier. We're packing treasures of all sorts behind the front seats--family china, a diploma, pickles,...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 28 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060528/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060529/ Las Vegas, NM - Mesa Verde National Park First stop this morning was just down I-25 near Pecos at Pecos National Historical Park. This park covers the site of a Pecos pueblo and Spanish mission on a hill top above the Pecos River. While most of the pueblo buildings have since crumbled to piles of earth colored mounds, the spanish mission...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 29 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060529/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060530/ Mesa Verde National Park -> Moab, CO I woke up this morning to a warbling wild turkey passing beside the tent. It was early by my standards, but the sun was already high enough over the hills to the east to cast bright streaks of light on the cliffs to the east of the campsite. I roused Russell out...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 30 May 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060530/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060601/ Moab, CO -> Escalante, UT -> Salt Lake City, UT We've been really packing the last few days with sightseeing, and haven't had the time or energy to write as much. I'm going to make this a brief post for the last two days. On Wednesday morning, after coffee and breakfast bagels in Moab at an internet cafe, we headed up to...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Thu, 1 Jun 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060601/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060602/ We made it! Well, we've passed into Oregon and we have only about 378 miles left. We've traveled over 5,000 miles so far. We've not had more rain on this trip than the occasional thunder storm. But what do we hit a few miles into our great state? Rain. Pouring, driving rain. Clouds hang low on the Blue Mountains...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Fri, 2 Jun 2006 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/060602/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070323/ You all know I'm a cat person, but these little guys were pretty cute. Jeanna's hot-dog Louie is just a puppy, and he's playing with Dean's two dogs. I used the 50mm f/1.8 wide open. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070323/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070401/ We took a drive today up Hwy 138 out of Roseburg along the North Umpqua river. This is Susan Creek falls, a short .8 miles off the main road. It was overcast, but not too dark - a great day to shoot waterfalls. I used both a full grey neutral density filter, as well as a split neutral density filter for...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 1 Apr 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070401/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070417/ While I spent most of my time talking with vendors and co-workers annd friends, I did manage to shoot a few pics of the incredibly huge 2007 NAB Convention floor. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070417/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070418/ Here are some photos from John Reich and us of the house taken on the days surrounding the signing of papers. I'm posting these now in October, and I can't believe how much the place has changed already! ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070418/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070428/ We flew out to the other coast for my cousin Kim's wedding recption. It was great to see the family again, and smell the humid air. As the bride and groom were in very high demand that night, we had to find other things to entertain ourselves with. After a few drinks at the golf course bar, we all headed...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070428/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070430/ After the wedding reception in Rhode Island, we all headed up to the Whitcomb's cabin in Maine, sadly sans our friend Michael who was in the middle of quals at Harvard Med School (s'alright, bud, we understand). It rained most all the time, but we still had a great, if not too short, time. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070430/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070520/ Today was the last day in our house on 54th street, the house my parents bought in 1989, the only house my brother and I really knew. I walked around the yard and shot a few pictures as the truck was being loaded. I can remember the first time I saw the house. As the realtor was showing my parents around,...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 20 May 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070520/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070622/ These are a few pictures taken over the course of the destruction and construction of the kitchen. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Fri, 22 Jun 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070622/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070731/ Sarah and I headed up to the Head of Jack Creek with our friend Britta after work on Tuesday for a picnic. I took these while we ate at the creekside after the sun had already dipped behind Three Fingered Jack. For most of them, I used a 50mm f/1.8 with a polarizer. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070731/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070804/ Here's some pics from our trip to Jack Lake... More words to come... ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 4 Aug 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070804/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070828/ With Sarah in Sedona, and her dad on the phone as tech/moral support, I managed to install the granite counter top tiles and grout them. Having not done this before, I'm pretty pleased with the result. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070828/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070909/ On Friday night, we pledged that by Sunday night we would be able to park the truck in the garage. This might not seem like such a crazy thing for some, but our garage was so cluttered and lacking of organization that you could not even see the floor through the clutter. We began by taking everything out of the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 9 Sep 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/070909/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/071104/ This weekend we went to a wine-bottling party at RainSong Vineyards in Cheshire, just outside of Junction City. We started with 300 empty amber-colored wine bottles and a barrel of RainSong's 2006 Pinot Noir, resting on its side next to dozens of similar barrels 15 feet up on a rack in an old barn. After quick lessons on the bottle...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 4 Nov 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/071104/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/071110/ We headed over to Newport after work on Friday, checked in at our hotel in Nye Beach, and had a wonderful dinner at April's of Nye Beach. The fireplace wasn't working in the hotel room, so we just watched some TV and fell asleep listening to the howling wind and driving rain outside. We woke up to find the storm...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/071110/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/071224/ We're spending Christmas in Sedona this year with Sarah's family. Here are some pictures from the last few days, including a trip up to the Grand Canyon and a couple of hikes around the area. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/071224/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080113/ Attention all gardeners! We need your help! With the sun shining all day - the first sunny day in many weeks - we found it irresistible to dive head-first into some yard work. We took down the clematis from the driveway fence, took down the hops and it's crumbling, rotting trellis, and - with a suggestion from our neighbor - we...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 13 Jan 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080113/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080127/ We were surprised to wake up this morning to some un-forecasted snow! It's really wet and heavy, and we don't expect it to last long, but it's a nice treat anyway. It's 9:30, and the neighborhood is still quiet, without any kids out or tire tracks down our street. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080127/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080427/ Well, we usually use this site to write about our trips and hikes and things like that, but you may have noticed that there haven't been any posts in a while. Truth is, we haven't been anywhere lately. That is... besides the backyard... With the days of sun and rains putting our plant's growth into overdrive, we've found it nearly impossible...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 27 Apr 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080427/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080526/ This is going to be a quick entry, as we're coming up on the final days before India now, and it won't be long before Sarah finds me in here 'playing with the computer' and not helping to pack stuff. Besides getting the lawn in with the help of my dad (yah! a lawn!) May was really the 'Month of the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 26 May 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080526/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080628/ Well, after many hours in a plane, we've arrived in Taiwan. We're tired, disoriented to our schedule and surrounding, but relieved that nothing has gone wrong and we're in the capable hands of my parents (who have lived here for a year now). We went on a walk around Hsinchu today, through a park and through the street surrounding the...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080628/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080629/ Quick entry today, as we're running out the door for an overnight trip to the forest train at Alishan, in the middle of the island. These pictures are from our second day here, which we spent around Hsinchu. We started the day with a scooter tour of the Science Park, where many of the chip fabrication buildings here in Taiwan....]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080629/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080630/ My parents have been keeping us very busy here in Taiwan, and the days are just flying by. On Monday we went up to Taipei after my Mom said goodbye to her students for the last time. We saw temples, monuments, and one of the tallest buildings in the world. Got caught in a torrential downpour, had great chinese food,...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080630/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080701/ On Tuesday and Wednesday we took a trip to the center of the island to a town called Alishan up in the mountains east of Chaiyi. We took the High Speed Rail to Chaiyi where a taxi met us and took us to the other train station in downtown Chaiyi. Chaiyi is known in Taiwan as the best, or only,...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 1 Jul 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080701/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080802/ This Saturday was our fifth anniversary. I was flipping through our wedding pictures the other day, reminiscing about the occasion, and finding it hard to believe that five whole years have passed. Time flies. To celebrate the occasion, and in a nod to the traditional fifth-anniversary wedding gift (wood), we took each other on a camping trip, where we could enjoy...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 2 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080802/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080810/ I usually try to keep work stuff off of this site, but it isn't every day that you end up with your photo on the cover of the business section of your local paper, in this case The Register-Guard. Especially not with a BFA in graphic design. (The link has been taken down by the RG) ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/080810/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/081018/ We've been enjoying our remodeled porch for a while now, but I'm just getting around to posting some pics of it. Couldn't have done it without the work days with our parents, as well as their phone tech support/counseling. ...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/081018/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/081108/ We have wanted to ride on the Portland Aerial Tram ever since it opened in December '06. But every time we went up to Portland we would forget, or just couldn't squeeze it in. With a Saturday with nothing better to do, Sarah, John and I decided to finally try it out. The tram - $4 round trip, Tri-Met monthly passes...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 8 Nov 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/081108/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/081206/ It seems to me that, regardless of the type of project, the more dirt you dig, the happier you are with your end result. Well, I dug a lot of dirt for the new front pathway, and it's really paid off. The old pathway was a flagstone path, but it wasn't wide enough, it was pretty uneven, and wasn't an...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 6 Dec 2008 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/081206/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090208/ It's spring again! Well, not really yet, but the tulips are poking through next to our new front path, and the daphne buds are swelling purple. It's getting achingly close, and the anticipation of sprouting seeds, spreading compost, and harvesting fresh, crisp salad greens, is drawing our attention again to the backyard, which we've all but ignored since the last...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 8 Feb 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090208/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090314/ Here are some pictures of the new arrivals! Four Golden Laced Wyandottes, hatched last Sunday, so barely a week old. Pretty cute! We added a picture of a full grown bird to the gallery, so you can see what they'll eventually look like. They're good layers (though not quite as productive as a Rhode Island Red) and supposedly have a...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sat, 14 Mar 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090314/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090322/ It is absolutely incredible to see something grow as quickly as these four chickens have. A week ago, at a week old, they were asleep the majority of the time, and the rest of the time they spent between the feeder and the waterer. By this weekend, at two weeks old, we've seen them sleeping very little, and instead they...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090322/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090330/ It's week three of their young lives, and the chickens keep getting bigger. Thank goodness, because they're not looking so cute these days. Well... maybe in their own little way... but we're looking forward to the more graceful creatures they'll (hopefully) become. We've moved the brooder downstairs to the laundry room so we can take the flock outside easier for...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090330/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090407/ At four weeks, the girls (fingers still crossed on that one) have outgrown their indoor brooder and moved to more rustic accommodations in the new coop. It's a little earlier than we expected, but they seem happier with more space, and we are sleeping better without midnight scuffles outside our bedroom door. Their heat lamp in the safely latched up...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090407/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090414/ We spent a half-rainy Easter weekend finishing up the coop for the chickens. It's looking down-right homey. We planted four azaleas on either side of the front door, and Russell turned the muddy stoop into a little brick patio. I think I might just move in! The rain barrel, to the right of the coop in some of the pictures, is...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090414/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090419/ What a beautiful weekend! We hope you all enjoyed it as much as we (and the chickens) did. The ladies (still individually nameless, we're taking to calling them the gang of four, because they never move alone) hunted and pecked through the backyard and napped through the hottest part of the afternoon in their coop while we turned our attention...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 19 Apr 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090419/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090503/ It was a rainy weekend here, but we couldn't resist spending some time in the garden. Since it's been a cold spring, I haven't gotten tomatoes or peppers in the ground yet, but I broke down this weekend and bought some. We planted them in pots this year, because last year they took over the beds. Now I have lots...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 3 May 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090503/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090531/ We finally got the front sprinkler system done! Now we just have to put everything back together. It seems like this project has dragged on forever, but we're only in our third weekend. We took the parking strip raised beds out and tilled everything up the second week of May (there are a few pictures of that in the gallery),...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 31 May 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090531/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090802/ For our anniversary, we've been planning to put aside the house projects for a weekend and head up to the mountains. We used to do this all the time... practically every weekend during the summer. Everybody warned us the house would have this effect, and alas, it has. No longer quite as footloose as we used to be and out...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Sun, 2 Aug 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090802/ http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090803/ It's been a while since we've posted pictures of the chickens. Looking back at the pictures of the chicks at four weeks, they've grown a bit in the intervening months! They look like real chickens now! And at least one has started laying. By the signs, the rest aren't far behind. Here are some pictures. The first ones are of...]]> sandr@sarahandrussell.com Mon, 3 Aug 2009 00:00:01 -0400 http://www.sarahandrussell.com/090803/