Descriptions of the thumbnail pictures

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Head shots of Amber

On top of Angel Island (that's why it's so windy), October 2005.

My 'official' ERG portrait, taken at the annual welcome party at Professor Norgaard's house, August 2004.

In front of the gates to Kew Gardens (world's largest botanical garden), London, August 2005. I have always wanted to visit Kew - that's why I'm grinning!

At Khana Peena Indian Restaurant in Berkeley, March 2006 (to farewell my housemate Andy, who was moving to Germany).

In Mt. Tamalpias State Park, near Stinson Beach (CA), November 2005. Rex and I had a great hike.

Climbing a redwood tree in Butano State Park, November 2003 (this was a hiking / camping / bonding trip with all the first-year ERGies).


Scenery photos

The coast near Big Sur, CA, October 2002. (Dave and I were driving up Highway 1 from San Diego to San Francisco).

Echo Point and the Three Sisters, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia (January 2005).

A dandelion field near Old Snowmass, CO (April 2003).

Sunset from Grandma's house in El Cerrito, CA (March 2003).

Wildflowers in the Maroon Bells Wilderness, CO (August 2003).

An oak forest at McLaughlin Reserve, near Santa Rosa, CA (March 2005).


Closeup photos

Ferns in the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia (January 2005).

Downingia growing next to a vernal pool at Jepson Prairie Reserve, near Dixon, CA (June 2006).

Indian Paintbrush and lupine in Maroon Bells Wilderness, CO (August 2003).

Sunset from Grandmother's house in Solana Beach, CA (June 2004).

A cane toad in one of Mom's running shoes on our verandah, Cape Hillsborough, QLD, Australia (January 2005).

A bouquet of wildflowers that I picked from around the RMI interns' house, Old Snowmass, CO (April 2003).


Friends and family

Carol, Grandmother, Mom and me at the memorial plaque honoring Grandmother's work to plant Torrey pines along Highway 1 in Solana Beach (summer 2003).

Eli, Malini, Amber and Adam getting ready to ride their bikes over the Golden Gate Bridge (January 2004).

Rex, Amber and Cliff eating the first crop of lychees ever produced on our tree, Cape Hillsborough, QLD, Australia (December 2004).

Cliff, Amber and Rex on Smalley's Beach (Cape Hillsborough, QLD, Australia) about to disembark on Amber's 25th birthday bushwalk (January 2005).

 

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Last updated July 8, 2006.