ATTACK OF THE SHUTTERBUG

Well, we've been up to a lot lately. Holidays, visiting family and friends, playing with the cat, formal balls, and our usual explorations of England have kept us very busy and me away from the computer. I'm feeling very disorganized but wanted to give you an update, so here ya go, in no particular order or relevance:


We got a new camera back in July, when the weather was still hot and sunny...I was having fun playing with focal length here...


...and here


Running amok with Claire and Charmaine


Lunch at The Orchard in Grantchester, a little village just outside Cambridge - Ray was there too, manning the camera


Did I mention we walked all the way to Grantchester and back?


Gotta love those German street signs...


...and their houses


Uh, yeah, that wine cask really is over a storey tall (again, applause to the Germans)


Ray and Dad enjoying A LITRE of beer each; Claire and I along for the ride in a German brewery/pub


Oh yes, there may have been this little castle towering about Heidelberg


Ray and I before the Downing College Mini-Ball; I look terrible here (those teeth! that forehead!) but Ray looks great and it's the only photo I have of us all gussied up

And to prove that I have become one of those crazy people who insists on trotting out photos of her pet, I give you Kappa, co-starring Ray, in a typical sleep sequence in the Grout household on a Saturday morning:







I will post more Germany and other holiday photos soon; just have to get them organized first (ha!)