Anniversary

I'm going to be out of town on our anniversary, so we celebrated it last night by going to The Bluffs, having some wonderful food, drinking some splendid wine, and listening to some superb jazz played live for our enjoyment.  It was very pleasant.  I guess I'll sign up for another fourteen years.

Strix got a new Olympus camera recently (kind of an anniversary present to each other), and these are some of the pictures I took with it after the battery charged just to try it out.

The younger of our two cats, Paganini, or Pag for short, watching the birds outside.

This is Hedwig, the stuffed owl that we have purched over our living room.

These are shots of a hand-painted ceramic chess set that my biological father made, and which I received when he died.  If anyone knows where I can get the molds for this set, please let me know.  On of the pawns is cracked from when the cats knocked it off the table.

Pag looks so contented because he knows that he can't be blamed for the broken chess piece.  It happened before he joined the family.

A strange macrame thing just inside our front door that we never bothered to take down.  I'm sure 70's-era crap will come back in style eventually.

A sword my brother got me for Christmas a few years ago.  I recently wore it to my first SCA event.

Some "weeds" that I let grow freely outside my front door.  They have a velvety feel to them and I like them.