Photo Gallery
Some of my favorite pictures of people, and from places I’ve been
Family
Me with the latest round of purple
The husband
Son and I getting our hair colored
Mom and Dixie Dawg
R.I.P. Kansuke- crossed the rainbow bridge July 13, 2023
R.I.P. Sasha- crossed the rainbow bridge 8/13/22
Molly on a cat
Leo and Virgil. Yes, I can tell them apart. Nobody else can.
The new baby, Kaya
Bragging Rights
Thomas Sanders, after his performance as the Beast in Gainesville, FL, 2019
Thomas Sanders as Sweeney Todd, Oct. 27, 2023
Charles and Allie at St. Petersburg Pride, 2018
Tuomas, at his childhood home in Kitee, Finland
Holopainens, and the art group in Kitee, Finland, 2016
Tuomas Holopainen in Kitee, Finland, 2016
Brandon Sanderson at LibertyCon 2012
Meeting Tuomas for the first time, at my first Nightwish concert, 2011
Adventures in Maine
Waterfall at Camden Harbor
Mary Day, French, and Angelique in Camden Harbor
Porthole on the French, looking across to the Mary Day
Maine humor
Mary Day schooner off the bow
Heeled over on a windy day
Deer Island Bridge
Anchor hands
The wood stove
Lobster on deck
Lobster bake
Lewis R. French at anchor
Adventures in Finland
Bikes in Kitee
Old Finnish
Kaunis päivä Kiteellä (Beautiful day in Kitee)
Kiteen jarvi (Kitee Lake)
Nightwish's first demo tape, in the Nightwish museum
Birch tree
More birches
Kiteen kirkko (Kitee church)
The cookout hut
Headbanging
Ice cream in Kitee
Work in progress, during the International Kitee Music and Art Festival, 2016
My board in the 2017 show
The main building at Röskö, where Nightwish recorded two albums
Looking out the window toward the Röskö lake
Cliffs in Röskö
Lake in Röskö
Mayflies in Röskö
In Joensuu
Helsinki
Humor in Helsinki- "Seagulls! Stop it now!"
Adventures in Poland
Graffiti in Kraków
End of the Nightwish concert
Beast in Black performing Ghost in the Rain
Nightwish performing at the Tauron Arena; Kraków, Poland, 2018
In a tea and cake shop
In a Polish supermarket
Bike adventures
Wind in the wheat
The day we found a kitten
Giant statue hugging a tree
Tree outside a castle
Zamek w Kórniku
In the garden outside Zamek w Kórniku
Downtown Śrem
Statue of the Little Match Girl
The path goes ever on...
Lake in the woods
"We Were Here"
“Me hymyiltiin ja tiedettiin
kuinka mielettömäksi kaipuu kasvaa nopeesti
Mut hymyiltiin ja hyvästeltiin
sillä täytyy uskaltaa elää vaikka rakastaa”
From the song Rakkaus Tekee Vapaaks, by Johanna Kurkella