drippingwith
tinsel our
Victorian
Christmas tree~07
Candle Craft
Johnny~
Jerry
29.12.07
Christmas in Lake Forest Park
drippingwith
tinsel our
Victorian
Christmas tree~07
Candle Craft
Johnny~
Jerry
Christmas in Lake Forest Park, Wa
Snow
on
Christmas Day!
click on photo
l to r:
Jerry Wray
Will Giuliani
Joan Giuliani
Nathan Wray
Johnny Skjelbred
Ray Skjelbred
25.12.07
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15.12.07
Remembering Bill
Bill was Santato the children in
the village in Thailand
where Jane and Bill
lived last December.
Darling man!
Our love to Jane and Jessica
throughout this difficult holiday
season.
Only posting
The Tree of the Day from now on
...but I'll be back after New Years.
with pictures of Bob & Kathy's Thanksgiving
...and their grandson, little Zachy!
..also any holiday or other pictures that you send me...
...as well as some golden oldies I've dug up.
bye for now.
13.12.07
12.12.07
11.12.07
10.12.07
Christmas Tree of the Day
Only 14 days until Christmas!
I will post
a new tree every day marking
the countdown.
Send me a photo
or your own if it's up and trimmed?
Ray on youtube
Here's Ray Skjelbred (5 years old(front/left)
his father Reidar
his cousin Bodil
and Reidar's mother
at the Skjelbred farm
in Drammen, Norway
Here's Ray Skjelbred a couple of weeks ago
in Sacramento playing Dance of the Witch Hazels
Copy the url below to see and hear him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGohwHNCnf0
9.12.07
8.12.07
Remembering Bill
Thoughts about Bill Heine by Susan WrayPastel of Beech trees
also by Susan Wray
Among my memories of Bill is the time my kids and I lived in Central Green apartments, neighbors of Jane and Bill, Jessica and David. Alvin, a little Indian neighbor boy, mistook the moniker " Uncle Bill" for "Taco Bell." Around the same time, David mistakenly called Uncle Johnny 'Onald Junky". Both nicknames stuck with us. I remember around the holidays Jane and I plaintively crooning Christmas carols and suddenly Bill, in perfect harmony, joined us and made us sound good. Many years later, I traveled to San Jose on business and Bill picked me up from the airport. We went for a walk on a beach that was littered with big round stones and Bill explained his belief in the Big Bang theory. He was often thinking deep cosmic thoughts. In Thailand with Jane and Bill, when we would eat together, Bill mostly held court on one scientific theory or another. His brain was already cranking at breakfast. He was a dear man and I always thought he had beautiful hands. I'm grateful my kids and husband got to spend time with him this last year of his life.
7.12.07
4.12.07
Remembering Bill
1) Bill and Jane carving pumpkins at the Wrays
2) Jerry and Bill walking on the Wray farm.
3) Jerry and Bill walking on the Wray farm
1.12.07
I love this card!
1960s
colored pencil
on construction paper
artist unknown
...if anyone has any photos or stories or anecdotes about Bill...please send them to me and I will post them to THE FAMILY BLOG
Remembering Bill
I took a long walk and thought about Bill.
What a gentle (always the first word that comes to mind), kind, tolerant, peaceful man.
I think of his artwork; his sensitive drawings, his beautiful photographs (and of course the photograph of him as a Thai Santa last year with all the kids around him).
I think of what a great dad he was to Jessica and David...and what a supportive husband and friend he has been to Jane.
I think of Bill the imaginative inventor and what his life has been ....and these last years of being retired and metal detecting on Asian shores...and his expertise in computer science...and enjoying his peanut butter on a muffin and muesli at Tommy's...and being with you....and enjoying his retirement.
I loved him very much....and my sympathy is with you.
Elsa
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