i honestly was there at the dinner.
i really did take pictures.
30-some-odd to be exact.
but i got clobbered over the weekend by this damn flu.
today i feel human.
after the fold come the photos. but first, our guest of honor:
Land of Enchantment
so, big props to navajo for organizing and pulling the dinner together in honor of our friend/guest/visitor/kindred bird-watcher/photo aficionado and major trooper Land of Enchantment.
forgive me if you have seen another version of some of these photos, but since they were taken, they might as well be shown! and if you have a chance, drop by navajo's original diary and take a gander at her photos.
so, the intro:
the menu:
and then the chopsticks!
now, just a few snapshots of some of the dinner guests:
jotter
RNinNC
side pocket and mrs side pocket
then there was leftcoast
and norm
long-shot of the table featuring both Lineatus &Archangel
Land of Enchantment, side pocket and jotter
then came the dinner
note -- i was too busy eating to take any photos of dinner.
then came the fortune cookies.
you get to guess which hand/fingers go with which sf kossack and their respective fortune(s).
yeah, some folks got 2 fortunes -- but not me. nope. i got just one.
anyway, onto the parade of hands/fingers and fortunes!
(navajo!)
(see what i mean? 2 fortunes.....)
dinner ended (obviously, or else there would have been no diary by navajo or this follow-up by me...)
we then cavorted outside for a good long time, in some fashion i suppose trying to entice possible diners into the fantastic place we had just eaten at, and in part because what else does one do when done eating if not talk?
LoE, leftcoast, the side pockets
the 3 "L"s...
i can't explain. i just can't. goofiness was the prevailing wind, so everyone sailed with it!
my favorite photo of the night, by far and away!
that's all.
sorry i had the flu. sorry these are being posted so late.
but, better late than never, right?
oh yeah -- i forgot to post my fortune:
until we eat again!