Welcome
to the L-Ames website
2024:
Portland OR, Aug. 2024
Solar Eclipse in Texas, April 2024
2023:
Houston TX, March & Sept, 2023
Super-bloom at Carrizo Plains, Calif, Apr. 2023
Europe (Czechia & Germany), May 2023
Cobb CA, Aug. 2023
and miscellaneous photos from the year.
2022:
day-trip to SF, Nov. 2022
MidEast Tour, Oct. 2022
Portland, OR, Aug. 2022
Glenn Ave. Block Party, Aug. 2022
2021:
(Also: salmon in the Los Gatos Creek, and Christmas in Willow Glen)
2020:
Remembering Liv (1947 - 2020)
2019:
The Christmas lights of Willow Glen
Halloween, with over 1,000 trick-or-treaters.
Europe in the fall, visiting both Norway and Barcelona Spain
We visit the redwoods with Liv’s brother and sister-in-law
Roadtrip to LA w/ sister to visit nephew
VivaCalleSJ street festival, May 2019
India, Feb & March 2019
grandkids come for Uncle Leif’s birthday
grandkids on a rainy Feb day: go to the museum!
2018:
Thanksgiving, and a ride on the Niles Canyon Train-of-Lights, Nov. 2018
Halloween, with over 1,100 trick-or-treaters.
Houston Texas, Oct. 2018
Norway and the women chemists’ reunion, Sept. 2018
Portland Oregon, July 2018
Ventura and the Channel Islands, April 2018
[and a presentation on the Los Gatos Creek Trail, May 2018.]
2017:
Grandsons Jules & Pasqual thru the year
various festivals and tours: Glenn Ave. Block Party, VivaCalleSJ, Dia de los Muertos, Day on the Bay, Coyote Meadows tour, Los Gatos Creek
Willow Glen Trestle “Redetermination” hearing in Sacramento, 10/27/17
Road trip, Houston to LA, Oct 2017
Big Sur bike ride, Sept. 2017
solar eclipse in northern Oregon, Aug, 2017
bike-ride, Scranton PA - NYC, plus a week exploring Manhattan (June-July 2017)
Willow Glen Trestle: celebration of listing on State Historic Register, June 2017
Hearing in Pasadena on the WG Trestle, May 2017
Cherry blossoms in Washington DC, with stops in Houston TX before & after (April 2017)
2016:
Grandsons Jules and Pasqual thru the year
Liv’s whirlwind 5-Cousin tour of the Bay Area, Oct. 2016
Cruising down the Danube river,
and visiting Norfolk England (August 2016)
The Fourth of July
Visiting my sister Margaret in Houston TX, (June 2016)
and a retrospective on her late husband Dave.
Logan & John’s wedding, 6/19/16
The bathroom remodel (Sept 2015- Sept 2016)
and Liv’s escape (April 2016: the Liv & Laura “Norwegian Wood” Tour)
2015:
trip to Arizona and the Sahauro High School class reunion
Honored by San José Parks Foundation
Nature hikes near Ashland, Oregon
Liv’s Norway trip
Utah arches, hoodoos, and canyon-lands
link to NASA website on the DSCOVR (Triana) satellite, which I worked on in 1999.
2014:
Christmas in Willow Glen
Pinnacles National Park
Halloween
bike-ride, Minneapolis to Milwaukee,
and home via the California Zephyr
burrowing owls
Texas
Retirement Party from
Lockheed Martin after 30 years
my talk at the
Colloquium: “How to Become a Mad Scientist, in Two Easy Steps”
2013:
Christmas lights of Willow
Glen
Halloween!
whale-watching in California
Europe: Denmark, Sweden, and Norway
biking: century around-the-bay; Mt. Hamilton; and SF with Liv
quest to save historic train trestle: photos
and video
Niece’s wedding in Argentina
2012:
Around-the-Bay bike-ride (w/
coworker Jeff Green & his group, and Leif) & turn-by-turn
instructions
bike-ride, Pittsburgh to
Washington DC
camping in Death Valley with
Michael Ellis
2011:
exploring the Pacific Northwest
without a car: PDF; individual photos
2010:
Italy & Norway
2009:
Napa Valley / Russian River
bike ride
Odd’s 90th Birthday
2008:
Larry, Leif & coworker
bike around Lake Tahoe, 2008
Arctic Cruise in winter
2007:
Leif's
robot
Larry & Leif bike
from LA to San Diego, 2007
2006:
Larry
& Leif bike to LA, 2006
2005:
Halloween,
2005
Larry & Liv Bikeride thru New England, 2005
Wildflowers in Death Valley, 2005
2004:
Christmas:
family
portrait, Christmas Eve, 2004
Christmas Day bike ride, 2004
Christmas Day Family Portrait, 2004
Larry’s Bikeride to Los Angeles:
Larry's bike ride to Los Angeles (Aug. 2004)
Trip to Europe:
the
overall route map;
Switzerland/Liechtenstein/Austria;
England; and Norway.
2001:
Alaska
1995:
Los Gatos Creek Urban Stream Restoration Project
photos: 1993-96
technical paper
Oral histories
Liv, as told to her sister Marit, 2/23/20 [(low-res) (high-res)]
Larry, as told to his sister Margaret, 6/28/20
How to Become a Mad Scientist -- in Two Easy Steps, July 2024
Ardis Gonzales, Part 1 and Part 2, Aug. 2022
Michael LaRocca & the Remilllard Brickyard, full and condensed, 7/19/2017
Rod Diridon:
- at Green Drinks, 5/14/2018
- Oral History of Los Gatos Creek Trail, 1/15/2019: short (41 min) / medium (1h20) / long (1h34)
- History of County Parks at Taco Tuesday, 4/12/2022
Also:
Liv reading to Jules and Pasqual from a Norwegian book on trolls, 12/25/19 (also lo-res);
and an informal inventory of heirlooms & artifacts, July 2020.
And:
Margaret’s heirlooms & artifacts, Oct. 2020 [and the Mudman movie!]
Jean Dresden’s SJ Park Advocates on Google’s “Downtown West”, 11/5/2020
Larry’s favorite recipes
and how they’re made
~the Ames family