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Family Photos 2008: The Rest

We finally got the rest of the photos from what Zoë still refers to as “THE COLDEST PHOTOSHUTE [sic] IN HISTORY.” And, just like the first batch, they came out beautifully.

Here are a few of my favorites…

The Girls
Emma -- Into The Woods
Emma — Into The Woods
Zoë
Zoë
Emma
Emma

As for the photos of the entire family, my reluctance to be in very many of them came back to bite me in the bum because that didn’t leave us with many to choose from. And, sure enough, even though my daughters can’t take a bad pictures, throw the Boiled Parsnip into the mix and I’m either squinting…

Squinting
Squinting

…or smirking or making some other family photo blunder. For instance, in this photo I’m either trying to explain something of great import or I’m distracted by a small shiny object just outside the frame.

Explaining
Explaining

Who knows which? And who cares? I just wanted to get some beautiful photos of my beautiful daughters, and I think I succeeded because, as of today, the girls are the first thing you see when you visit Wynona Robison Photography.

Speaking of which…I really can’t thank Nona enough. She was brilliant to work with and the results were absolutely incredible. (The Boiled Parsnip notwithstanding.) I told her that if people ever ask her for references, she can just forward them on to me and I’ll spout flowery adjectives at them for as long as they’ll stay on the phone.

Country Club Nurse

by Dorothy Cole (1967)
Country Club Nurse

She was known as Nurse Sanders at the Club where only the super rich and most famous people were allowed to become members. How could she get Captain Joseph Mackenzie to realize that she could never be one of them?

They were the glamorous super-rich–could she help heal their broken lives?

Caring for an overindulged young socialite at the wealthy Chanticleer Club, Nurse Erda Sanders soon finds a new romance among “the beautiful people” — as well as plots and counterplots threatening not only her principles but lives!

A few things…

  • My niece, Elisabeth, is getting married tomorrow. If you want to find me at the reception tomorrow night, I’ll be the dashing, devil-may-care playboy standing in the parking lot with a white, double-breasted dinner jacket, a cravat, and slack arms.

  • A according to a 2005 report from the Internal Revenue Service, you need to earn at least $100.3 million in Adjusted Gross Income to be counted among the “super-rich.”

  • Noted without comment: Chanticleer.

  • And, finally, I leave you with an early draft of a song by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim.

Erda

The most beautiful sound I’ve ever heard.
Erda, Erda, Erda, Erda…

All the beautiful sounds of the world in a single word:
Erda, Erda, Erda, Erda…
Erda, Erda…

Erda!
I’ve just met a girl named Erda,
And suddenly the name
Will never be the same
To me.

Erda!
I’ve just kissed a girl named Erda,
And suddenly I’ve found
How wonderful a sound
Can be!
Erda!
Say it loud and there’s music playing —
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying —
Erda…
I’ll never stop saying
Erda!

Erda —
Say it loud and there’s music playing —
Say it soft and it’s almost like praying —
Erda —
I’ll never stop saying Erda!
The most beautiful sound I ever herd —
Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrda.

Psychiatric Nurse

by Fern Shepard (1967)
Psychiatric Nurse

Tracy’s new asssignment posed a double problem: A memory of past heartbreak, and the terror of impending tragedy.

Bittersweet Homecoming

Nurse Tracy Ross had many reasons for going home. Her mother needed her…and she needed a rest from the terrible strain she had been under. But her welcome was marred by the shocking realization that you can’t go home again.

The problems she fled were neither as immediate nor as difficult as the ones she faced now. Back in her home town, she found herself working with a doctor with whom she had once been violently in love. That was hard enough in itself…but even more difficult was the terrible secret she carried within her breast. Ethically, she could not reveal it…but if she kept it hidden, many lives were doomed to tragedy!

Alternate Titles:

  • Nurse Chlorophyll’s Conundrum
  • Nurse Carter of Mars
  • Bedpan of Jealousy

Ice Venture Nurse

by Lydia Balmain (1983)
Ice Venture Nurse

Sarah Barford gets the job as nurse on board the Arctic-bound exploration trawler Ice Venture much against the wishes of the expedition leader Dr. Kurt Rothwell who wanted a male nurse. She assures him that she is well used to dealing with men in hospital. But these men are neither ill nor in bed…And the sarcastic and difficult Dr. Rothwell seems intent on making Sarah see that he was right all along!

It’s odd that they don’t mention anything about her falling for the dwarf werewolf fisherman depicted on the cover…