Our Favorite 2008 Pictures

Marathon, FL

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We have been to a lot of places and seen a lot of things this year. Libby and I sat down with our thousands of pictures from 2008 and picked 36 as our favorites. Here they are in random order. Captions describe left-to-right, top-to-bottom. Happy New Year.

1. Son John attempts the illusion
2. Super hero Libby on a Bahamian beach
3. Rose Buddies monument in Elizabeth City
4. Dick caught napping in the Smithsonian
5. One of Mel Fisher's treasure artifact in Sebastian Florida
6. At the fish market in Washington DC
7. The King of Bhutan
8. Libby and daughter Jenny in the American Art Museum
9. Rub a dub dub three men in a tub; John, father in law Dick, and Dick -- Rockland Harbor Maine.

1. The year's best picture -- Libby and Dick take lunch in Key West
2. The year's best sunset -- Block Island, RI
3. The Butterfly Conservatory -- Key West.
4. Dick's nightly ritual blowing the conch horn at sunset
5. Lovingly quaint house and garden in Hopetown Bahamas
6. A beach on Ocracoke Island North Carolina.
7. Albert Einstein paternal figure Washington DC
8. Dick's encounter with Hillary Clinton -- National Building Museum, Washington DC
9. The shell warehouse, Key West

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1. Jenny tries the illusion.
2. Libby and sister Nancy thrill with speed -- Buzzards Bay, MA
3. A classical family pose, The National Mall, DC
4. Tarwathie under sail, Narraganset Bay, RI
5. Four Osprey occupy a buoy, LaTrappe Creek, Maryland
6. A wonderful garden, Hopetown Bahamas
7. Fog rolls in, Isle La Haut, Maine
8. Libby gets the guided tour, Cambridge, Maryland
9. A dolphin loafs, Abacos Bahamas

1. Dick writes a blog, Belfast Maine
2. Bayside Maine
3. The yacht club we belong to, Bayside Maine
4. A apropos sign, Beaufort, South Carolina
5. Grandson Nick, Jewel Island Maine
6. At the fish market, Washington DC
   
7. Pure beauty, location unknown
8. Nick surveys the heights, Acadia National Park, Maine
9. New Providence Cemetary, Bahamas, graves are sunken to prevent flowers from blowing away.