Darien

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Shadow the kitty.
Shadow the kitty, only 13 years young.
Mmm. Plant. So good for scratching with.
Shadow eyeing me suspiciously.
Catherine and Emily Sauter at the Sekse house a few days...
Erika and Kristian Sekse in the Sekse kitchen.
Again, a picture awesome for one thing: probably the...
A fantastic shot of Catherine, good enough to demand...
Catherine finding something below deck on a fine day on...
Chris Samsen's (step-father's) boat anchored in Scott's Cove.
An absolutely fantastic portrait of Kelly swimming in the Sound.
Cat and Sharon in Scott's Cove.
Catherine, Kelly, and Sharon in the water of Scott's Cove.
Sharon, very excited to be at the wheel of such power.
Catherine on the bow, heading out of the Darien harbor.
Kelly on the back of the boat, with a Noroton Yacht Club...
The party on the Samsen boat on the 3rd of July.
Kris, Kelly, Sharon, and Cat on the Sekse boat, being silly.
Sunset on the sound in July.
Sunset #2. This would have been a lot better had I had...
Unfortunately, a blurry shot. Off the coast of Norwalk...
Kelly and Sharon off Norwalk on the 3rd.
Sunset #3
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The pictures of the fireworks themselves didn't come out...
Firework #2
Catherine and Kelly at Catherine's "Goodbye / I'm moving...
Chris Samsen, being terrifying off the coast of Long...
Catherine, Kristian, and half of Kelly on the back porch.
Dad giving a toast or talking to someone at the 150th...
Sharon Anderson and Catherine at the 150th.
The Sekse family at the 150th (Per, Erika, Jeanne, and Kristian).
Catherine, Kelly, and Maggie and Shelby Brown at the...
Catherine, Kelly, and Maggie and Shelby Brown at the 150th party.
Catherine and Maggie Brown at St. Luke's 150th Birthday...
Kristian and Catherine at the 150th.
Sharon, Kelly, and Maggie at the rehearsal dinner
Kelly and Maggie at the rehearsal dinner
Shelby, Kelly, and Catherine at the rehearsal dinner
The quartet o' singers, the night before the big day
Sharon and Kat, looking fabulous
Maggie and Shelby out in Norwalk
Catherine and Maggy, taking using Cat's massive...
The bride and groom at the rehearsal dinner!
Art Brown and his two lovely daughters
We met in 1989. And now Maggy's married. Insanity, I tell you.
Sharon and a deliciously young-looking mother-of-the-bride
Pretty flower. And glass of wine.
Kelly likes the flower
Sharon's face. Up close.
Another self-photo. At the gas station, no less.
All prettied up, before heading over to the church
Close-up on the pretty pretty hair
Kelly is having nothing of Catherine's photo-taking at...
Shelby and Maggie at the reception
Biff and Marta walking in to the reception
Sharon and The Todd coming in to the reception
Maggy and David sharing a first dance
Maggy and Andy dance with Andy's mother and father
Maggy and Andy take a spin
Taking pictures behind the house
Kat, like Kelly, wasn't a fan of all the pictures
Hovell family, take 1
Hovell family, take 2
David, Maggy, and Maggie
Catherine and Maggy - friends 4eva (or something)
Maggy and Maggie
The quartet runs the song through again at the reception
The quartet again
Maggy and Andy during the toasts
David, with Pam in the foreground
David, looking at his cake
Maggy and Andy
Megan, dancing. Awesomely.
British people
The Todd and some guy in a pink tie who wanted his picture taken
Rona jams
Kel and Catherine, a touch sleepy-eyed...
Catherine making chocolate peppermint Christmas cookies....
The groundhog-ish animal spotted living under the shed...
Happy birthday, Catherine!
Celebration dinner number 10 or so at Rory's (mmm, ham...
Yay, birthday presents!
Who says pancakes need be cooked?
Just one of the things Mom convinced me to try on before...
But wait! It's actually... PANTS!
It's just... such an awesome dress/suit-thing. In all...
The Merritt Parkway. Darien held on to its fall leaves...
Catherine and Jay at Rory's on their last night in Darien
Merry Christmas all!
Pinkish white tuberous begonias and Impatiens and new rock wall
Continuation of rock wall with white Impatiens
Long view of the moss garden with goose neck starting to...
Two of about ten planters. Low one on steps was gift...
Another deck planter
One of the 3 hibiscus standards we got at Costco. Not...
Back-looking view of the rock wall ... I just love it!
A New Guinea Impatiens in the planter ... and of course,...
The area known as "the corner", more planted than ever. ...
The front of the corner with red impatiens and sweet ?...
Longer view of the corner
And the corner with two containers in front of it. ...
And a container to the left of the garage - misture of...
This container is on the front walk, in front of the...
The rest of the front walk, with a little peak at the...
Another rhodo starting out, with a hanging basket of...
First year ever that the white hydrangea survived the...
The rest of the 'flag garden' with the toucan.
And further down the flag garden
A lily in the flag garden. Yeah, Dad!
A close up of the hydrangea.
The plants we bought 10-15 years ago and were told to...
An area that I just sprinkled bleeding heart and...
Two yucca plants tucked into the frontyardA
Another view of the yuccas in bloom
The oak leaf hydrangea down near the road
Trying to get something to grow at the base of the...
Base of the driveway on the right is looking great. ...
Gotta love begonias for rich colo
Another view of the right side, showing the new Belgium block
Did the Belgium block just on the right side which is...
Left side looking a little barren
Full view of the Belgium Block
Our famous garage entrance ... but lots of potted plants
Another look at the yucca
Lots of sedum (background) and European ginger (shiny -...
The sedum spreads everwhere ... and a tall grass on the right
We've never had two blooms on the yucca before.
Pink rhodo near the front walk
White rhodo across from the pink
Pink begonias under the red maple
Looks very japanese to me, including the bird bath
Guess the pachysandra is encroaching on the front walk
The view from the back deck
Our spot in the woods to survey all that blooms
Combo view of the moss garden and the view from the deck
Closer view of the moss
First year that the Lady Mantle has bloomed ... lime green color
Wish I hadn't shook the camera ... love this picture
More moss garden
Back around to the stone wall and rock garden
... where we have begonias and impatiens
Dad making delicious bread.
Squirrel attacking the tree!
The old house location, from Ring's End Bridge
Looking back at Goodwives River Road
Out to sea!
Weed Beach
More beach
Noroton Bay beach club
Caroline Pugliese and Katherine Hunter (UVa hockey...
Catherine with Libby (hockey team founder)
Caroline, Katherine, Catherine, Libby
Breakfast of champions!
Kelly and Catherine at Colony
Tokeneke Beach Club
Sheffield Island Lighthouse. No... a different...
Kayaks at the boat club
The only two workin' boats in Darien
More kayaks
Mom and Dad at the Boat Club
Catherine, Mom, and Dad
The Post Road Diner mural
Mom and Dad
Mom and Catherine
Dad at Villa Italia
Hmm. Maybe they're French?
The famous St Luke's ushers, now helping out in FL and...
Kathy Kenyon listeing to Brian. Judy Kemp with her arm...
Let me tell you how this happened
Frank Kemp giving his version to Peter Kenyon
Meg starts in eavesdropping
Donna looking pleased that the wedding is over
Margaret Anderson (bad fall on the shoulder) and Judy...
Meg getting the Florida update.
Frank and Kathy relaxing ... and that is the south end...
Bill Anderson and Brian catching up ... and Donna's very...
David Anderson overseeing the arm brace twins
Peter getting some color competition frm Tom Glover at...
Les catching up with DiDi
Could that be water to keep Les on his weight loss...
Anne and Les with our hostess. Les looking somewhat...
here's most of the crew just before Les and Anne head back to LI
And have to get one of Peter.
Checking out the old house wile in CT. Looks pretty...
Ditto
Ditto
Strange zooming ... the black post is of the light at...
Jos A. Banks has taken over the Loft store near the theatre.
And a new Italian restaurant - Scena - is on the other...
Pretty fancy signage.
And Fairbanks finally went out of business ... the long...
Sport Shop still looking good ... but we understand that...
Looks about the same.
The new intersection of the Post Road and Leroy, taken...
Same new intersection, taken from Leroy. The major...
The "new" Christmas tree behind the Sport Shop ... the...
It's already decorated, with the star on top.
There she is ... has a way to go to catch up with the old one.
The area one block north of the post road, just east of...
View of that area looking North.
BMW put on a new face.
View from BMW towards the new intersection. Whole Foods...
Whole Foods, taken from the BMW parking lot. The cars...
Whole Foods.
Ah ... one tiny segment of the new library on the Post...
The library taken from the road that goes by the Police...
The massive library taken from the Spring Grove...
And now the polic station, also undergoing a major addition.
Lunch at Rowayton SeaFood with Tom and Diane Glover
... and Tom opens his eyes. That's Pinky Haydock behind...
Now Diane gets to squint.
The other side of the table ... Lyman Brown, Barbara...
Anne Read and I hold down this end of the table.
and round the corner with Annie Lingelbach and back to Tom.
The whole crowd.
Just hanging out at Five Mile River.
One more try ... might be the best one.