Season’s Greetings

 

December 2003

 

Rather than complain in my holiday letter about all the bad things that have happened this year, I’ve decided to share a photo essay of good times instead.

 

These photos may possibly amuse, perplex, or frighten you depending on your level of involvement.

 

Shamelessly,
LRH

 

 

Last Xmas

 

Pre-Xmas festivities at nephew Dave & Von Tuton’s house in Blair, NE.


Back: LRH, Kathy Tuton, Gary Tuton, Bob Forbes & Winston, Lori Tuton,
Dave Tuton.
Front: Von Tuton & Gracie, Chris Tuton, Dad, Mom, Kevin Tuton, Cory Tuton

 

More pictures of
 Dave’s family

 

More pictures of
Mom and Dad

 

60 Memories
A scrapbook for my folks’ 60 Wedding Anniversary

 

Niece Lori Tuton
and LRH at
Lori and Bob Forbes’
 house in Kansas City

 

 

Lori and LRH
Xmas Day at Bill and Mary Coble’s in KC

 

New Year’s

 

Gift-giving and general revelry
 with friends at LRH’s in January.

 

The Pine Knot enjoys

her new Knotty Piner cap.

 

 

Steve Shelley, Suzie Elliott, Connie Villiers, Judy Schoenfeld

 

Suzie admires her new calendar as
Connie Villiers, Sara Plath, Wendy Taucher and Steve Shelley look on

 

 

Steve anxiously anticipates his next gift after being cruelly disappointed with the last one.

 

“Where’s my pony?”

Sara is amused

Mitch is not

 

Brigantine

 

Easter in Brigantine with aunt, uncle and cousins

 

On the beach with Dean Clopton, Nancy and Russ Diaz, Lorraine Clopton

 

Atlantic City in background

A “Huddle Shot” with the

 porkers after Easter Dinner.

 

Other pictures of the Clopton/Diaz clan

Another Brigantine Beach shot – this one on Labor Day.

 

There was a great tide pool this year, suitable for waders like myself.

 

San Diego

 


LRH & Flamingos at the Marriott Coronado
San Diego in April

Friend Connie Villiers and LRH at the San Diego Zoo


Topiary rhino head behind us

LRH and her favorite
Beavertail Cactus at
The Quail Gardens

 

I see a resemblance

 

 

LRH & the “Nikigator” in Balboa Park
One of many Nikki St. Phalle sculptures in the San Diego area
I had to chase away several children to get this picture

You think I’m kidding, don’t you?

LRH at the

Wild Animal Park

 



LRH & Connie Villiers in the backyard of
Barbara Thomsen and Nancy Clarke’s house
(The Infamous Channer Sisters)
at Mira Mesa
waiting for the cab to take us to the airport


More pictures of the trip to San Diego

 

Martha’s Vineyard

 

Chilmark Beach on
Martha’s Vineyard in May

 


It was COLD on that beach, but glorious!


The Girls Go Shopping in Edgartown
Ginger Blake, Wendy & Evalyn Taucher, LRH

 


Aquinnah Cliffs & Lighthouse
(where John, Jr.’s plane washed up)

 

Seafood Supper

 

Sara’s Seattle Sister Sends Spectacular Seafood Supper

 

 

At table are Eddie Coen, Mitch Tebo, Ginger Blake,
Connie Villiers, Sara Plath, Dennis Paoli, Stuart Gordon

 

For Sara’s birthday in June, sister Laura FedEx’ed a wonderful package of seafood and mushrooms from Pike’s Market in Seattle, which we prepared and ate at Ms. Villiers’ abode.

 

The Menu:

Cocktails:
Salty snacks – olives, edamame, assorted piquantry,
Starters:
Kumamoto & Quilcene Oysters on the half-shell,
Steamer Clams in White Wine,
Pink Singing Scallops with Porcini and Chives,
Soup Course:
Spinach and Mussel Soup,
Mushroom Course:
Morels en croute,
Main Course:
Copper River King Salmon, baked with
Piquant Parsley Sauce and a Rhubarb Compote

Sugar Snap Peas, Potatoes and Green Onion Saute
Cheese Course:
French Bellay on pita bits with grapes, figs and pistachios.

French Le Fournols on rice crackers with peaches and strawberries.

French Aged Cantal on water crackers with apple and dried mango.

Shropshire Bleu, Danish Bleu and Bleu D’auvergne
with balsamic pears and honey almonds

Dessert:

Panna Cotta with Spring Berries
Coffee, Brandy, Port

 

Mitch demonstrates how
we all felt after eating this meal

 

 

Birthday Teas

Rachelle Keller’s Birthday Tea
at the Plaza Hotel in June


We’re all wearing tiaras.
Yes, it’s a long story. Have you ever read the Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love?

LRH, Jean Kleinpaste, Rachelle Keller, Pat Schuster, Donna Epstein

 

Lorraine’s Birthday Day at Payard in July

Donna Epstein, LRH, Pat Schuster, Jean Kleinpaste.

 

There are those tiaras again.

 

Donna’s Birthday Tea in October in Brooklyn

 

LRH, Jean Kleinpaste, Donna Epstein, Pat Schuster

 

Fire Island

 

The Book Club does what it loves to do— read on the Beach

 

Queens at the beach
Pat Schuster & LRH
practicing our wave

 

The beach at
Davis Park, Fire Island in June

One of the Nature Trails
at Watch Hill on Fire Island

 

There are always a few deer in the bushes or on the beach at Fire Island

 

Connecticut

 

Sara Plath and Mitch Tebo on the path up to William Gillette’s Castle in East Haddam, fourth of July weekend.

 

It was very hot.

 

The beautiful Connecticut River from the castle terrace

 

Central Park Celebrates its 150th Birthday
on 21 July 2003

 

Willow Tree and Bridge at the Pool in Central Park

LRH on the phone trying to work out logistics of meeting Ms. Villiers in the park.

 

The Pool on the Upper West Side

Stop Light and Tree in Central Park
The light is green. What can it mean? Drive into the tree?

 

North Farm

 

The North Woods –dense and primeval –
on Al and Pat Schuster’s North Farm
near Ellenville in the Catskills


Members of the House Party at North Farm in September.

Back: Sara Plath, Mitch Tebo, Alan Schuster
Front: Wendy Taucher, Pat Schuster, Connie Villiers

 

Alan lets me drive his tractor around the pasture
with the “Bush Hog Squealer” mower attached.

He bought this tractor on E-bay.

 

It just goes to prove
you can take the girl out of Nebraska,
but you can’t take Nebraska out of the girl

 

Reserved for Pictures of
Puerto Escondido and Oaxaca, Mexico

 

For the 2003 Christmas holidays my friends, Mitch and Sara, and I are heading to Mexico for a week at the beach and a week in the mountains.

 

And here's the proof...

A Mexican Christmas Holiday

 

 

That’s All, Folks

 

I’m always looking for more work. Here’s my résumé, if you can get me a job, I would appreciate it.

 

Currently I’m working for Eric Krebs Theatrical Management, an off-Broadway producing organization. Here’s the site I built for our show, “Golf: the Musical.” And here’s the other site I work on: OffBroadway.com

 

 

 

Happy Holidays to all from
155 West 81st Street
New York, NY