Happy New Year Family and Friends!
In lieu of a family newsletter/website/cards this year, we’re doing a single blog post to summarize our year in photographs. Hope you enjoy it and please feel free to leave comments 
Winter 2011
Winter in Phoenix is very brief. Does this look like January to you?
In February, Steve’s 66 Mustang was photographed for an upcoming feature in Modified Mustangs and Fords.
Steve and his sister Michelle also visited their dad in El Dorado Hills, CA.
Spring 2011
In March, Steve went to Hawaii.
Nathan and Roberta had fun at home.
So did Jeff.
Nathan tried out bird photography.
The hummingbirds didn’t seem to mind.
Roberta’s cousin Karen, Nathan and Roberta visited the Tucson Botanical Garden, where there was a butterfly exhibit.
The butterflies liked Karen’s hat.
In April we went to the Finger Lakes region of Upstate New York to visit Roberta’s parents and sister.
We stayed on Seneca Lake.
When we got back, Steve and Nathan built the cats a “condo.”
Fred the cat seems to enjoy it.
Summer 2011
In the summer we flew to Denver to visit Steve’s family.
We had fun feeding the lorikeets at the zoo.
Can you tell those are the Rocky Mountains behind Steve and Michelle?
We also visited Fort Collins. Here’s Steve with his niece, Quinn…
… and his sister, Nicole.
In the summer we had a wild dust storm that left everything coated with beige dust.
Here’s a squash blossom that opened the morning after the storm:
In August, Steve, Roberta and Nathan enjoyed a day at the Phoenix Desert Botanical Garden with Jessica, a student intern from France who was working with Steve.
Fall 2011
Nathan was quite proud of his garden this year, particularly the datura plant.
In October, we visited the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix again, this time to see the David Roger’s Big Bugs sculpture exhibit.
Talk about web sites…
Nathan went to the Wildlife World Zoo with his school in November.
For Thanksgiving, we went to Sierra Vista to be with my cousin Karen and her family, Bill and David, as well as some of David’s friends.
Check out this giant cottonwood tree we saw at the San Pedro park. That’s Nathan and Steve standing under it.
Steve had a big year. He received a national award in his field, plus he attended the graduation of his doctorate student.
Over the holidays, we visited Roberta’s sister and her family in Hershey, PA and then Roberta’s parents again. She says, “It was beyond fabulous to see them twice in one year!”
We had a white Christmas.
It was great to have opportunities to visit with everyone.
This site is so professional. And you’ve certainly traveled a lot this year! I was disappointed to see only one photo of you, but did enjoy learning more about your family.
Have you been working? Writing for publication? (I haven’t yet read what you’ve written in the other areas.)
Have you seen any of the DSC gang?
Thanks for including me in this mailing. I’ve signed up for your new blog postings. Oh, I’ll forward an interesting email from my brother.
Happy New Year!
Carmela
Carmela,
Thanks for stopping by. I have one proposal in for writing work. We’ll see if it gets accepted.
Cheers,
Roberta
Dear Roberta and Family. I wish I could do what you did as your Holiday greeting. What class enabled you to do so much? I’m very envious and wish that I was more computer illiterate. I still do notecards and send them to friends but nothing like your website! Any suggestions as to classes I should take wouild be greatly appreciated. And a Happy New Year to you and your family. Still miss our chats in the U of A office re entomology!
hugs, Ceis
Ceis,
It’s good to hear from you.
This particular blog is a free WordPress blog that I set up to use for odds-and-ends projects. It really isn’t difficult, although I did have an excellent mentor when I first started. Let me see if I can find a tutorial for you.
-Roberta