Some pics relating to Cynbe, put up mostly for his ladylove :) 94Jan29

<p><a href="jpeg/alvis+brigit+krissy+cham.jpeg">
  Quartzfest 92, Fayetteville AR</a>:  Alvis, Brigit, Krissy and Chameleon.

<p><a href="jpeg/books.jpeg">
  Moving into my house, about Jan '94</a>.  I've got my books
  moved in, just need the shelves now!  Looking SW toward
  the atrium wall, the fireplace and a bit of the outside
  deck visible.  I resisted scanning this one at 600dpi so
  you could try reading the titles :).  Yes, the obvious
  solution to the heating problem occurred to me.  ICK!!!

<p><a href="jpeg/cabal+legion.jpeg">
  Cabal and Legion at a Renaisance Faire</a>.  Cabal was one
  of my final Qwestwizards and a great guy, Legion is an
  adept artist among other things, I have a wonderful
  offhand sketch of me she did without any visual clues
  whatever :)

<p><a href="jpeg/dad-sleeping.jpeg">
  Jan '94 or thereabouts</a>.  Mom caught Dad in an uncharacteristic
  posture at Shima Goya, their Saltspring Island "country shack".
  Behind you see part of a wall of glass which in daylight shows
  Ganges Harbor, Active Pass and Mt Baker.

<p><a href="jpeg/family+doug.jpeg">
  Doug is a cousin or something</a>.  My sister was one of seven
  siblings, and I haven't hardly been back to Ontario since
  I was 6, so I get confused.  Doug runs a 100+ foot charter
  boat for a living at present, hence the sweaters he gave us
  all while visiting Seattle in 94.  The view is from in front
  of the Seattle Art Museum's main (original) location atop
  Volunteer hill, looking west to a view washed out by the
  antique silver halide acquisition technology, and the
  people left to right are Mom, Dad, Doug, my brother Jerry,
  and I.  Photo by Doug's female half, so she's missing.

<p><a href="jpeg/family1.jpeg">
  A small family get-together</a> at my parent's condo in
  Seattle.  Most of the clan is in Ontario, or failing
  that British Columbia or such.  Counterclockwise from
  right, me, my Mom's sister Virginia, Dad, gf (?) of Virginia's
  son, Virginia's son, my brother.

<p><a href="jpeg/family2.jpeg">
  More Jan '94 family stuff</a>, this time in my house.
  You can see a bit of the two-stories-of-glass atrium
  effect, and one of my scrumptious wonderful poplars
  at the left.

<p>Quartzfest 92, Fayetteville AR:
<a href="jpeg/fiona+teddybear+st.germain.jpeg">
Fiona, Teddybear and St Germain.</a>

<p><a href="jpeg/firiss.jpeg">
  Firiss!!</a>  My eldest sortasister and one of the world's coolest
  people, who taught me most of what I know about wizzing and a
  lot about just plain life in general.  One fifteen-year-old I
  was happy to take maturity lessons from.  She thinks she's
  "not photogenic" and did her best to keep me from getting a
  picture of her, but my sortaMommy (the world's wisest person
  and wonderful to hug besides!) gave me this one anyhow *grinbounce*!
  She's at UTexas Austin now.

<p>
  Quartzfest 92, Fayetteville AR:  Irielle mailed me all of these
  Quartzfest pictures.
<a href="jpeg/irielle+merlin.jpeg">
This is her with Merlin.</a>

<p>This is out of my wallet:  It's 
<a href="jpeg/jeff-1965.jpeg">
  the photo on my Green Card</a>.
  I was using this to get into the US after each Canada trip,
  in my beard-and-long-hair days.  I remember once the border
  guard looked at this picture, leaned out of the booth and
  looked dubiously at me, finally asked my brother on the
  passenger side, "Is this really him?"  Luckily, my brother
  said "Yes" ... :)
    Now that I've shaved again, you'll notice I haven't
  changed a bit.  Prolly wear the same shirt, too.  But
  I lost those glasses... they might be the pair that fell
  off in Ganges harbor the time we ran aground... that's a
  fun story.  For now, just note that there are two channels
  leading into Ganges Harbor, and the east one is _not_ good
  to attempt in a keelboat...

<p><a href="jpeg/jeff-mar11-1992.jpeg">
  Whee!  The very end of the longhair/beard era</a>:  I shaved it
  all off a day after this driver's licence photo was taken.
  Now I can't remember what I had for lunch by licking my
  moustache any more ...

<p><a href="jpeg/judi.jpeg">
  My housemate, her graduation photo</a>.  She handed it to me
  randomly one day and I stuck it in my wallet and it fit
  perfectly, so of course it has been there ever since.
  She loves Disney anything, fuzzy stuffed anything, her
  two cats, the dog she's about to acquire, stagecraft,
  clothing design, Eleanor of Aquitain, and backrubs.
  Especially backrubs... :)

<p><a href="jpeg/lanya+dandelion.jpeg">
  Lanya+Dandelion</a>: This is actually a cheap, trashy picture I picked up at
  a mall or streetfair or some such, stamped on metal foil...
  and the foil gives is a magical, impossible-to-focus-on
  quality that's exactly right for the subject matter --
  and makes it essentially impossible to scan in -- and
  it is the spitting image of Lanya in her Unicorn Lady
  persona (she was usually the Unicorn Mare) petting
  Dandelion, the baby unicorn... both used to hang out
  mostly on Furry, but they and I chatted once on Qwest.
  This sits permanently on my "office" wall.

<p><a href="jpeg/laura.jpeg">
  Laura</a>, my youngest sortasibling (not to be confused with Laura
  Holmbeck who was Goddess of Qwest, not Laura Cash, for
  whom Laura's Zeppelin on Qwest was built.)  She's the
  quiet one.  She was delighted a plink at piano a bit,
  she was at about the same point when I visited in
  Aug '92 or so.

<p><a href="jpeg/quartzfest92.jpeg">
  Quartzfest 92, Fayetteville AR again, most of the crowd</a>.
  Irielle didn't label them all, so I'll try, left to right:
  two I don't know, Krissy in white in front, Alvis behind
  her, St Germain behind Alvis, Shylara/Killa in front, Cool
  peeking behind her, me in the background, Howard hugging Fiona, 
  Chameleon the redhead behind Fiona, Teddybear taking most
  of the rest of the foreground, ... um, I've lost the rest
  of the names.

<p><a href="jpeg/sandy.jpeg">
  My ladylove</a>, through a fax, darkly.  :)

<p><a href="jpeg/shai.jpeg">
  Sarayaxie</a> of early Qwest, who came all the way from Missouri
  to Seattle by bus just to see me.  Prolific creative writer,
  invents languages of her own, wonderful roleplayer...

<p><a href="jpeg/sister+daughters.jpeg">
  My sister Jackie plus daughters plus unidentified dog</a>,
  looking Northish on nice waterfront park in Sarnia,
  Ontario near their home.
  Left to right, Denise, Maria, Jackie.  '94.

<p>'94 in sitting room in my sister Jackie's home in
  Sarnia, Ontario.  
<a href="jpeg/sister+offspring.jpeg">
  Left to right, Maria, Christopher,
  Denise, Jackie, my brother Jerry
  ("I'd rather search the web world-wide than walk 10 feet to
  talk to [someone]") Prothero</a>.

<p>
  This one and the next are at very high resolution because
  there didn't seem to be any point of scanning them at all
  if I wasn't going to preserve the visual impact.  This one
  is '94 on my parent's Saltspring Island retreat, looking
  northish down the driveway from uphill of the house, at
<a href="jpeg/ssi-deer-1.jpeg">
  a pair of deer wandering by</a>.

<p><a href="jpeg/ssi-deer-2.jpeg">
  Another '94 one of deer</a> on my parent's Saltspring Island
  retreat.  This one is from the deck outside the house
  looking southish.  Saltspringfolk dearly love both
  deer and gardening:  The deer are protected by law, and
  the gardens by the sort of rails+netting arrangements
  you can see int he foreground.  The deer are standing
  more or less where the pond for Dad's Japanese garden
  will go:  Phase II of the house will be over the hillside
  at the left, which shaded off ever more steeply into a
  near-cliff of woodlot.  You can't really see it here, but
  the woods just off to the right are full of strategically
  placed and mostly-buried boulders and carefully cultivated
  moss and such -- the eventual backdrop for the garden. The
  foreground area is part of Mom's landscape domain, which
  is traditional rock-garden, not Japanese.  She's currently
  getting into heather in a big way, and starting up a
  multimedia db to track her landscaping around the house.
  (Everything you see was basically rocks and bare dirt
  when she started.)
    A disused part of the driveway continues beyond the
  deer to the woodbin and greenhouse.  Off beyond the
  left edge of this photo a the vista of Ganges harbor,
  (with Dad's sailboat in view when it's in) Active Pass
  and Mt Baker in the distance;  The house itself is on
  an area called Mt Belcher, but nothing gets seriously
  considered for mountain status in the PNW if it isn't
  pretty continuously snowcapped... :)

<p><a href="jpeg/steve.jpeg">
  Steve, my only sortabrother</a>.  He's in college now with his own homepage
  and will likely destest this photo :)

<p>
  These are the same except one is ridiculously low-res,
  and the other is ridiculously high-res.  Both are of
<a href="jpeg/suit1.jpeg suit1big.jpeg:">
  me in a suit</a>, on the only occasion in the last
  quarter century in I've worn one. (Stepping-down
  party of the departmental chair.)  My Mom
  wasn't about to let the moment go unrecorded!

<p><a href="jpeg/toaster.jpeg">
  Wondersib!!!</a> :) :) :)  The middle in age of my three
  sortasisters.  She's changed since this photo was taken,
  and in particular her hair is currently a mixture of about
  six colors from bright red to violet, the exact layout
  changing just about weekly ...

<p>
I work in an anatomy lab, so I suppose I need to include
one token image with a lot of
<a href="jpeg/wonderbra.jpeg">
anatomy</a>.  This one was sitting
by the scanner, no doubt as some sort of calibration/test
image... :)