As the song says "These are a few of my favorite things";

• Sitting in front of a fire and reading a good book on a snowy day
• The fall is my favorite season. The heat of summer is over with, the leaves are changing color and the weather usually has just a nip in it, with a hint of what's to come. I like hiking on leave covered trails.
• Photography - Sunsets (Sunrises happen to early in the morning ), Landscapes, Nature and old buildings. I like both color and black and white. Best photographer - Ansel Adams.
• Traveling - Seeing the USA, staying at B & B's., the Maine coast, the west coast, the Rocky Mountains. Some trips I would some day like to do are; sail the Maine coast in a Windjammer, sail the Caribbean in a sail boat and drive the Rocky Mountains from Mexico to Canada.
• Restaurants - I like country inns, quite out the way restaurants, places with rustic charm.
• Music - The Grateful Dead - "Workingman's Dead", Pink Floyd - "Dark Side of the Moon", Linda Ronstadt, Carly Simon, Journey - "Wheel in the Sky" & "Lights". Basically anything from the sixties and early seventies. From Acid Rock to Folk and any thing in between. I like what I like.
• My favorite authors are; Marion Zimmer Bradley - The Darkover Series, Frank Herbert - The Dune Series and David Weber - The Honor Harrington Series. If it's science fiction, I have probably read it.
• My favorite game is Backgammon. I feel that I am a pretty good player and can hold up very well against a strong player.

Let see... What else do I like? Hmmmm... What haven't I mentioned. Ah...Food. Oh yes how could I have forgotten that.

• I like cooking, mainly because I don't like to eat the same old stuff over and over again, I like to experiment with different ingredients. It probably has something to do with all the chemistry classes I had to take. See my recipes web page.
• I like chicken, pork and once in a while a steak. Once in a great while fish.
• I like Italian and Mexican foods. I make a great chili.
• Oh yeah, I should have put this as number one. Lobster, steam clams, clam chowder ( New England clam chowder, of coarse. ), corn on the cob and washed down with a good beer.
• What I don't like is Chinese foods. Broccoli, Spinach, and most definitely mushrooms.

These are only some of my favorites things, but they are the ones that come to mind as I sit here writing. As time going by I will probably add some more and delete some.