I'm fresh out of words, but here are some pictures of what's been going on:
Matt's friend Jenn came up from UCLA to spend her birthday weekend:


Tammy took me out to the bluff over Montara beach to try out a new photo-technique she's working on. It involved me standing very still in the cold for six very slow exposures for every pose, but the light really is amazing:

And here are two pictures from a December visit with Ellie's long-time friend Jessica and her new family. Jess is the first of my kid's close friends, the kids I watched grow up, to have a baby.



Jacob really liked holding him.
An experiment:
I really like
Reuters Editor's Choice Photo page, where hey have a blog of the best pictures of the week or whatever. Here is an attempt to link to them. I don't know if the addresses are permanent or if they take things down the following week - so let me know if the link is bad.

The caption says:
"Swimmers compete in the Water Performance section of the of the 2008 Cold Water Winter Swimming Championships at the Tooting Bec Lido in London, February 10, 2008. It is the first time that the competition, which has attracted almost 700 competitors from all over Europe, has been held outside Finland.
REUTERS/Kieran Doherty"