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Boats at the port on the Siuslaw River (this is a block from my apartment)
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More boats
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The bridge that takes highway 101 over the Siuslaw.
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My little apartment building -- I'm in the back on the 2nd floor.
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Heceta Head lighthouse, about 10 miles or so north of Florence.
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Cape Perpetua, about a half-hour north of Florence.
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The surf does some wild stuff there...
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From one of my sunset walks on the beach (this is at Heceta Beach which is pretty much right in town)
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Some of the really nice houses along that beach!
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Further up the coast again -- this is from one of the overlooks at Cape Perpetua
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A bunch of us from work and elsewhere went out for my birthday to a Mexican restaurant with good margaritas -- here's Becca and Mica.
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Also at the birthday party -- here's Alec (an orthopedic surgeon there)
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Matt and Donna (Matt's an ER doc)
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Tatyana, our med student! (she's not usually out of focus though!)
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Here's Alec again wearing the birthday hat they originally had brought for me :)
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Hanukah: I managed to find one other Jew in Florence with whom to light candles!
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This one's out of focus, but the story is that one of the candles suffered a fracture while we were setting them up -- it obviously needed to be repaired by the expert...
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Okay, finally time to light the candles!
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So... Mary (one of the other orthopods in Florence) had some friends visiting, and decided that we all needed to be exposed to a sand rail ride on the dunes... Here I am leaning on our vehicle before the ride. (yeah it was cold that day!)
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Mary and her two friends, with our driver making sure we're all strapped in well.
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We traded around so I was in the front seat for a while -- here's the view out the front. Man, did I wish _I_ was driving!
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All four of us in the buggy...
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An evening of latke-making at Kate's
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Don't they look good??
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Just a couple of New Year's photos -- we had to search for a channel covering the festivities in Times Square...
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Chris and Alec... still searching (utimately we just missed seeing the ball drop, but oh well). Oh, and I forgot to get the camera out again for champagne, sorry!
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Okay so this has nothing to do with Florence, but my rug finally arrived from the reservation while I was down there, so it ended up on this page.
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Here's how it looks on my wall.
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