The tiny dot is Dee hiking up to Zach's from Bear Paw.
Back view of Zach's.
Front view.
View of Gore Range...
...where we would like to hold the ceremony.
Or on the balcony...
...still with a great view.
Zach's interior - for the lunch reception...
Scenery
- Scenes from local hikes and the ceremony site - bluest, clear skies and a brilliant display of fall foliage - it was magical...Click on image for full photo.
Getting Ready
- The day started with a calm sun-rise walk with two friends, and then it was hair, make-up, dress, veil, and GO!!!...Click on image for full photo.
D&G
- Before and after the ceremony, we had the chance to have some alone time (albeit with the photographer). Still, even with everyone in view, we were in our own world with only the two of us...Click on image for full photo.
Ceremony
- We had the perfect clear day under the majesty of the mountains to take our matrimonial oath, witnessed by our loved ones. The ceremony included elements from Thai water blessing and string tying traditions, along with our personally written vows...Click on image for full photo.
Reception
- Zach's Cabin was the perfect, peaceful and picturesque setting for an intimate luncheon. Highlights included a simultaneous champagne corking before the first toast, and the cake was a scrumptious finale...Click on image for full photo.
Friends & Family
- All the extraordinary people in our lives who could be with us - from our childhood to our days in Peace Corps...Click on image for full photo.
Scenes Misc.
- Pictures from the rehearsal dinner and other weekend activities. Good times...Click on image for full photo.
SEAsia 2005
Boat Quay and Financial District. Lots of waterfront restaurants and bars under the shadow of world-class financial services. (Dee used to work in one of the tall buildings during her i-banking days.)
At Raffles Hotel where we did not have a Singapore Sling.
Welcome to Bangkok. (Graham made me take this picture.)
Exotic (and hairy) fruit.
G's first coconut juice. (Dee made me take this picture.)
Grand Palace...
Coke in a bag!!!
Turkey 2004
The Blue Mosque in Istanbul is one of the most famous religious buildings in the world. This is the view from the main courtyard.
The Blue Mosque is most magical when flood lit at night.
The Bosphorus Strait connects the Mamara Sea with the Black Sea and is also the division between European continent and Asia Minor.
People ferry back and forth between the European and Asian sides of Istanbul.
The “Open Air Museum” in Goreme, Cappadocia (Central Turkey), preserves ancient churches built into the rock formations that kept them well hidden from religious persecution.
“ImaginationValley”, Cappadocia, displays the volcanic erosion in different shapes and forms.
“RoseValley”, great hike and spectacular views of the geological formations of the Cappadocia region.
This should really be called “Phallic Valley,” but monks used to live inside these formations. We stayed in our own cave dwelling in the town of Urgup.
Chavushin is a Greek town that was built into rock faces a thousand meters high.
Pamukkale is a spring saturated with calcium bicarbonate, forming hard chalk-like pools cascading down the mountainside. It now suffers from over exposure to tourists and most of it is under UNESCO preservation. Even in winter we were only allowed to walk through it in bare feet....brrrrrrrr.
The pools fill up with not-hot-enough spring water for our frozen feet, but winter is probably the best time to see it without the high season throng of tourists.
Ephesus, on the Agean coast, is said to be founded by Amazons. Centuries later, it is believed that the Virgin Mary spent her last days here.
It is evidently the largest and best preserved ancient city around the Mediterranean.
