Hey Y'all...a few photos of my new City!! Got Bike?!

Oh Christmas Tree

Thought you'd all like to see this.

One Spooky Night...

Apple Picking Time

India & Bella at Rocky Ridge Farm.

Karen & Tommy trying to adjust to their loss

Mtn. biking over Columbus weekend.

India took the first mud bath!

Cherryfield ATV Trip

Here's a cool photo from my recent ATV trip.

The rest of the photos can be seen on my Webshots page at:

http://community.webshots.com/user/trucston

BACK COVE

This 91 year old woman is a hoot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREFkmrrYiw

Member of Congress

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.......But then I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

Uncle Tommy Live on Stage!

FUN & GAMES

1. Tommy at the US Open

2. Me at the last Yankee game with Derek Jeter at Bat...

3. picture was on the cover of sports section of sunday new york times...(I'm the panic stricken one to the right of the catcher). You can see my friend Andrea's head under the catcher...was a hysterical moment. :)

First Day of School

3rd. Grade  2008

Uncle Kenny

At the state park in Lovers Key

Moosehead Lake 2008

Kokadgo billboard.

Big Spencer Mountain.

Father Daughter bonding at the pump station!!

 Northern Pride Lodge in Kokadgo on First Roach Pond. 

Bar Harbor camping trip

We had a great time in Bar Harbor.  We hiked, biked, beached it, picnicked, went to the top of Cadillac Mountain, saw Thunder Hole, picked blueberries, swam in the pool and much, much more!  Tim & I plan to go back sans child to do some biking and spend time downtown.  

Bambi Stopped by today

Ummmm I'm sorry but

did no one take notice that the image Mom chose as herself is an old cupboard?!....Now Freud would have a field day with that one! Atleast you could have chosen a red Ferrari or a Samurai sword???

Tulum, Mexico

5 days in Tulum...I highly recommend to you all!! We witnessed turtles coming up on the beach to lay eggs and essentially just laid around, read, & ate....it was BLISS!

Tatum

This is a picture of Tatum that I took during Katya's graduation party that I've been trying to email her to no avail. I figured I'd post it and we could all enjoy it!

Umbagog Kayaking Trip

Johnny A. and I did a great kayaking trip on Umbagog Lake, and I have a few photos to share at:

http://community.webshots.com/user/trucston

Unfortunately, due to a camera memory card malfunction, most of my photos did not survive the trip. We had perfect weather and calm lake conditions, and even the bugs decided to keep their harassment to a minimum.

Hermit Island

Franconia Ridge Hike

I did a nice two-day hike up in the Whites this week. You can check out the photos from my hike on my Webshots page at:

http://community.webshots.com/user/trucston?vhost=community

Italy Continued

The Wedding.....

La Vida Italia

Hi all, sorry for the non-blog-participation...life's been a bit stressful of late but I do want to share our Italy trip highlights!!  It proved to be quite therapeutic and left me wanting to move to Europe to have a baby, grow a garden and drink copious amounts of red wine!!

 

The trip was broken up into three legs:  The first being in Bassano del Grappa which is just an hour north of Venice at the start of the Dolomites. It was mostly farming land with tons of cherry trees. We stayed with Justin's friends who have a little girl Ava (Justin's god daughter) and another that was just born this week! We took it pretty easy and ate and chatted and ate, etc. but did manage to organize a little tour of a local winery  at 10am and proceeded to get quite tipsy before lunch time! 

The second leg was in Cinque Terra which i remembered being these 5 little tiny fishing villages nestled into the cliffs above the sea. It is still quite picturesque but I guess since the last time i was there some travel writer has put it on the map so there were tons of Amercians which always annoys me when im traveling.  I know its unreasonable and selfish to say that but that last thing i want while gazing at the sea and stuffing down a salad caprese is the sound of a booming brooklyn accent at the next table. This was our "alone time" segment of the trip but it didn't end up being that romantic since I hemorrhaged at dinner and had to call an emergency doctor (who arrived on bike with his doctor bag in his basket) and be rushed to the clinic. Other than that Cinque Terra was great!

The last leg of the trip was the wedding in Petrolo, which I can definitely put in my top 5 travel experiences. The bride groom generously rented this amazing Villa which had its own stone church, several outbuildings, lemon groves and vineyards for miles and miles around. So aside from the utterly gorgeous Villa and Grounds we all were all staying on, and all our friends, and all the details they organized it was the food that did it. As a gift to the bride and groom Jaime Oliver (the utterly handsome and sickenlingy down to earth british chef) had four of his chefs there and did all the food all four days...breakfast, lunch & dinner... it was a dream!!  Nothing was not thought of from the 10K run which was organized complete with medals and trophy to the winner, the poker tournament, the italian stallion stripper (for the ladies of course), the make your own pizza for lunch, the screening of the godfather on the side of the villa one night, to the dance parties everynight and the video diary room where you could leave a personal video message to the bride and groom...i could go on and on but I will digress and let you see the photos!!