Our site is primarily intended for family and friends . . . but a warm welcome to anyone else who happens to drop in for a look around.

Parts of this site are now, and probably always will be, under construction with new additions coming as often as I can get them finished. I'll also be adding a Flash 5 version of the site in the near future. So if you click on a menu link and end up on an admittedly "neat" construction page, I apologize for the inconvenience.

We designed this site to be viewed using MS Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher. Sorry, don't have the time to make it cross browser compatable, so again my apologies for those who visit using something else. Also, the site should be viewed at a resolution of 1064 X 768.

My wife Clarkie and I have many varied interests. In the winter, our favorite time of the year, we're avid downhill skiers, we've just discovered, (rediscovered in my case), snow shoeing, and we love to take our two dogs, Valkyrie and Jack Daniels, for walks in the woods and near-by parks.

In the summer we bike, golf, hike, go canoeing and enjoy exploring new places. Over the years we've documented our activities through my love of photography, so we have hundreds of photo's to remember our adventures by. I'll be posting some of them for all to enjoy, but will try to use good judgment and show only our best.

We've found dozens of web sites that we visit frequently. To share these sites I'll be adding them to the Favorite Links section so that those of you with similar interests can check them out if any are new to you. Look at the links to pages for Chicago, Astronomy, Skiing, Guitar Stuff, and FairTax, you'll see what I mean. If you have a favorite site that I should include in the links sections, just send me an e-mail with the URL, I'll check it out and add it if I think it's appropriate.

Thanks for joining us, we hope you enjoy our site.

Clarkie and Jim