Nora, your Aunt Belén asked for pictures of you as you were getting dressed for the first time to leave the hospital. Of course I went a little overboard. After you were fully dressed, I took what is definitely my favorite photo of you so far. I’ve made a little video slideshow of the dressing process.
All the photos in this slideshow are available for closer perusal in this Flickr set.
At the in-laws last weekend, we went through some family photo albums to find some pictures for our wedding video. It’s fun to see pictures from 20-30 years ago of people that I know so well. Here are the cutest ones of Marga. I guess it’s only natural that her sister should be in all [...]
A picture from the archives takes us back to the summer of ’04. Avuncular Love – Uncle Ramón and Aunt Inés embrace (and embarrass?) their eldest niece, Marga, in August, 2004. In Spain, the extended family is often very closely knit. Ramón and Inés have lived in the same apartment building as Marga’s parents for [...]
Part of finishing up our wedding video responsibilities included choosing photos of each of us as children for the obligatory “before they met” montage. This post is dedicated to the adorable little Spanish girl that became my wife. In Spain, baby girls get their ears pierced more or less immediately. As far as babies go, [...]
What a gorgeous wee bairn! And excellent sartorial taste already. Congrats, again.
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That is indeed a wonderful photo of Nora. I just can’t stop being excited for you guys. Forget all those things I said in the first few weeks about how hard it is to have a newborn.
George Catlin painted ominous, swirling clouds of black smoke that loom out of the distance and drive the Indians before them. The artist was an eyewitness to such terrifying events, and described the fire’s “thunder rumbling as it goes.” But he also wrote that prairie fires made for “some of the most beautiful scenes that are to be witnessed in this country, and also some of the most sublime.”