Phil in his home away from home, 282 Lindley Hall.

  At Sandbridge in August, Rob, Cricket, and Cindy.

The group at Sandbridge.

  Before the rains came, we had several nice days.  No, Corona did not pay a product placement fee.  [Added 1-7-07]

This was the first rainy day.  [Added 1-7-07]

  What are these men doing?  The trash can and Scrabble® box are a makeshift tripod.  Bill and Greg are trying to figure out how to get their cameras to do a timed exposure for our group photo.  [Added 1-7-07]

  Surf on the day we left.  It hadn't yet reached the stage of being a Weather Channel "Storm Story" and it probably never did.  The eye of Hurricane Ernesto was still quite a ways south of us.  The waves were way over the high tide mark of earlier in the week and a couple feet below the point where they'd roll under the first row of houses.  We were in the second row, which was lower than the first.  According to CNN, Virginia Beach received 9 - 11 inches of rain.

Phil in the surf.  The strange thing was that the water was a lot warmer than it had been all week, warmer than we could remember it ever being.

  Phil on Santa Monica Pier, honest.  This was in September, on a visit to the Institute for Creative Technologies at USC.

Phil with two of his friends and co-workers from Atlanta, Herbert Charles of Morehouse College and Dave Bernard of The Intellection Group.  We're on Santa Monica Beach.  It seemed like the place to be at the time.

  At Thanksgiving, some of us visited the Shiloh Battlefield.  L-to-R: Greg, Phil, Rob, Mike, Roland. [Added 1-7-07]

Mike and Phil at the location of Ruggles' Battery, the Confederate artillery that broke the Union defense of the Hornet's Nest.  Mike says the 2007 re-enactment will have more cannon than the original battle. [Added 1-7-07]

  Mike's cabin, reflected in the pond at Thanksgiving. [Added 1-7-07]

At Thanksgiving we helped Mike with his firewood collection.  We moved a lot of wood bucket-brigade fashion.  It was work but I really enjoyed it, doubtlessly more that I would if I had to heat my house that way. [Added 1-7-07]

  Sandy and Chessie.  They know they aren't supposed to go into the kitchen, but the rule really seems to mean, no hind feet on the linoleum.  [Added 1-7-07]

Quite a hat!  [Added 1-7-07]

  This picture of Greg is the first of a series of Christmas pictures.  Phil was given a camera and, in Greg's words, had a case of "new camera syndrome."  Many of those new pictures didn't work out.

Rob.

Ken and Rob work to build a trebuchet.

Rob and his Uncle Dana entertained us with some Jell-o "refreshments."  [Added 1-7-07]

Cricket relaxing after supper.

Bill and Greg discuss the physics of fireplaces.

  The family on Christmas.

Rob, Dana, and I drove around the area of Cass Tech.  Here are a bunch of pictures.