This photo of Anne is the only one I took on our wedding day, June 9, 1990. (Our friend Rich Green was the 'official' wedding photographer, and I should someday digitize his wonderful photos in the wedding book he gave us.) I don't remember taking it, but must have done so at our home, where family and some friends gathered after the reception. It would have been nice to discover more photos of the day in these slide boxes, but I'm very glad to have this one.
I did take some photos on three occasions before the wedding. One set of pics is of a visit we made to Rich at his apartment in Rogers Park, Chicago.
While we were in Chicago we had dinner at Rostad, our favorite Thai restaurant, with its view of a mural near Lincoln Square:
Back at Rich's apartment I took these two photos; I'm not sure why I took the second one, unless for the geometric patterns:
On another occasion where I pulled out the camera, Anne, Michelle and Becky (no record of Aron in the photos) came over to make breakfast, or as it turned out (since I seem to have just woken up) breakfast in bed. Somehow Michelle ended up with pancakes on the breakfast-in-bed tray herself. Kitty joined her for one photo:
Here you see Anne with a freshly made pancake and me with breakfast:
And here we are together, minus whichever girl was taking the photo:
The third photo occasion is when I chaperoned--i.e., just went along with--Becky's Sheridan School class when they went on an excursion to Terry Andrae State Park--in early June, judging from the flowers in two of the photos . Here we are on the bus on our way:
Terry Andrae with its beach dunes has turned up several times in these posts--I'm glad to say with better photos, since many of the following are overexposed. Among the few decent ones are the flower ones: some columbine growing in the park and me in front of lilacs at the Nature Center:
I also like a couple of the ones of Becky jumping off sand dunes:
And here are the other shots from the day, including a few of the teachers (or maybe other parent-chaperones):
The next set of photos I find in my slide box was taken shortly after the wedding: we are having more pancakes, this time in our miniscule back yard. (In later years we were able to buy an expanded area.) We're making use of a wedding present: a set of cheery plastic plates and cups that came in a picnic basket.
Anne had planted the little garden circle with flowers; in the second photo I'm not sure if I'm planting a flower myself or why anybody took this picture:
A few days after these photos we left for our honeymoon driving trip with the kids to California: Southern (I attended a science fiction conference in Long Beach while the other hung out at Disneyland) and Northern (we visited Anne's parents in Sacramento). For some reason I have slides only of the first days of the trip, from Wisconsin to Santa Fe, but I'll show these and a visit to Road America that fall in my next post.
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