Stephen and Dan in New York with Betel

Stephen spent most of the summer helping out at the Betel Mission for drug and alcohol addicts in Queens. Dan joined one of the Myrtle Grove youth mission trips there for one week in July.

In Central Park with some other boys on the team

In Times Square

Central Park from the top of Rockefeller Center

The Empire State Building, constructed 1930, from the top of Rockefeller Center

Stephen in one of the Betel Ministry stores

The Betel Ministry building in Queens

Stephen and some of the men in at the Betel Ministry

The financial district (tall buildings in the distance) from the top of the Empire State Building

The Statue of Liberty from the top of the Empire State Building

The Chrysler Building, constructed 1930, from the top of the Empire State Building

The East River and New Jersey beyond from the top of the Empire State Building

"Seated Harlequin" by Pablo Picasso, 1901, as seen in the Metropolitan Museum

"The Street Pavers" by Umberto Boccioni, 1914, as seen in the Metropolitan Museum



Queensboro Bridge as seen from Astoria Park in Astoria-Queens




On the west edge of Central Park



On the west edge of Central Park

Historic Downtown Wilmington

First Presbyterian Church, 3rd and Orange Streets, established 1785, first three buildings burned down, this building built 1928

St. James Episcopal Church at 3rd and Market Streets, established 1729, original building torn down and reconstructed in 1839

Henrietta III Riverboat docked at Water and Market Streets. The original Henrietta cruised the Cape Fear River from 1818 to 1858. The Henrietta III has been in service since 2000.

Cape Fear Memorial Bridge at 3rd and Castle Streets
spanning the Cape Fear River, constructed 1969. A steel vertical-lift bridge, currently the highest bridge in North Carolina and features a lift span that can be raised 135 feet.

Wilmington Snow of 2010

Beth and Spencer

 

Our house



Our cul-de-sac

 


Dan by the back yard pond

  


Front yard crape myrtle

 


Neighbor's mail box





Angry sky





Back yard pine trees





Pine tree picture frame





Back yard crab apple tree




Back yard Japanese maple




Back yard pine





Dan at the entrance to our neighborhood




Beth's mother's back yard on Whiskey Creek




Beth's mom's back yard on Whiskey Creek





Beth's mom's house

 



Neighbor's mimosa tree



Neighbor's oak tree




Back yard cedar tree







Beth on our street

 

Portraits by Kanuga Lake

Kanuga Lake



Bagpiper




Right face!




Left face!