I was inspired to create this page for those of you who live too far away to see my family in person. I have always enjoyed visiting the sites of others who have done this. The images are arranged in reverse chronological order. As I add pictures to this page I try to insert them where they belong in the date sequence, so the most recent additions may not always be at the top.

Snapshots  Originally I intended this page to be a place for family photos, but it also seemed an appropriate place to show other photos I want on my website, so I have created a new section at the bottom with links to more pages of photos. Now that the boys have grown up and departed—and I am using my cellphone more frequently as a camera—this section will probably grow the fastest.

   Click on any picture to enlarge . . .

2024

Pride flag by front door

We have 2 dogs. Now that I'm retired my life is walking them twice a day.

Our son Ben and his Chinese roommate, Dongyi, moved from Taiwan, where they had lived for years, to Lisbon, Portugal. Because he lives in non-English-speaking countries Ben was learning to speak Chinese in Taiwan and now he will have to learn to speak Portuguese.

    Quinn turned 3 in February

2023

    We met Arthur & Wilma, Jon (Arthur's son) & Jack (Jon's son) for lunch in Worcester—Ben was with us

    Quinn & Casey – a new photo Patti took

    Quinn turned 2 in February

2022

    The whole family gets together

    Pepper sleeping in Ben's college chair

Patti celebrates her birthday with Brenda and Paula in Vermont

    I made a webpage of our dogs, Casey and Quinn

2021

Quinn is our new puppy, a Labradoodle like Casey

    My new hat

    Patti's Facebook photo

    Casey wears a jacket on our walks when it's cold

2020

Pride flag by front door

    Our 2020 Holiday Card

    Our sons Alex and Ben

    Alex and Laura

    Ben on Facebook

2019

    Alex and Laura get married!

    Ben at Alex's wedding

    Ben speaks at Alex's wedding

    Alex and Laura in the Catskills, where they will wed in August

    Alex and Laura announce they are getting married

    Nice photo of Patti I just came across - not sure when this was, perhaps at our last house that we left in 2016

2018

    Our 2018 Holiday Card with photos from our trip to Italy

    Our wonderful cat, Mandy, dies at age 17

    Mandy and Pepper relaxing on deck

    Eric on the Boston Common on Memorial Day - I retired this year!

    My good friend and colleague, Margarette

    Ben at UC Berkeley Campanile with Patti's cousin Ellen, who lives there and teaches at UC

    We took an extended family trip to Italy in June/July

    Eric and friend, Margarette, doing 20-mile Walk for Hunger fundraiser—Margarette and I have done this for 20 years now

2017

    Patti and Eric

    Eric's mother, Immy, died this year at age 98

    Eric vists his mother, Immy, at her place in Boise

2016

    Our 2016 holiday card

    Patti and I remodeled and moved into another house in 2016; here are photos

    Ben conducting a class at Twitter in San Francisco (I got this from a TV news video)

    Patti, Alex, and Laura in Brooklyn

    Alex and Laura in Brooklyn

2015

    Patti's brother, Ed, died this year

    Visiting Grandma

    Patti and her brothers, Ed and Arthur

    Alex and Laura

    Alex and Ben, spanning about 25 years

    We bought a new house to remodel

    We had one of our worst winters for snow (also on Facebook)

2014

    Our 2014 holiday card

    Our good friend, Daniel, passed away from ALS in 2014

    Patti in Jamaica

    Ben in Jamaica after shaving off his beard

    Ben and Patti in Jamaica

    Ben in India

    Ben in Japan with Mayuko

    Alex and Laura

    Eric - I had recent photos of everybody except me, so here is my selfie (that's Quincy Market in Boston)

2013

    Our 2013 holiday card

    Patti, Eric, and our niece, Heather

    Patti and I with Peter and Karen at Marina Bay, Quincy, MA

    Patti at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather wedding chapel in Las Vegas, where my parents were married in 1942, now a historical landmark

    Eric, Patti, and Alex with Grandma in Boise

2012

    Our 2012 holiday card

    The family in 2012

    My brother David passed away this year from Alzheimer's in 2012

    Casey is our new puppy!

    The whole family on Patti's birthday in our family room – Eric, Ben, Patti, Alex, Laura

    Alex and Laura spent the 2012 summer in Europe!

    Alex's cat Monstar is staying with us this summer while Alex is in Europe (we call her "Baby")

2011

    Our 2011 holiday card (GW campus, Washington, DC)

    Ben's graduation from George Washington University

    On GW campus in Washington, DC

    Eric, Ben, & Patti's brother Arthur in Georgetown (we were in DC visitng Ben when he went to GW)

    Hurricane Irene destroyed our sailboat on a trailer in the back yard

2010

    Our 2010 holiday card (Paris)

    We took a trip to Europe in 2010

    Eric & Patti in a London pub

    Eric in London

    Patti and Eric rode Segways in Boston

    Ben in Amsterdam

    Mandy in the little cat-house she ignored for years

    Alex's cat Monstar (we call her Baby) stayed with us part of the summer

    Patti & cousin Morty

    Patti at our nephew Eric's wedding

    On the Palindrome date (01-02-2010) I slipped in the icy driveway and broke my arm

2009

    Our 2009 holiday card picture

    Hayley in our driveway before plowing

    Patti with college friends in Colorado

    Patti with Eric's high school friend Skip in Idaho

    Eric with mother at her retirement center in Boise

    Ben in Barcelona

    Alex, Patti, Ben, Eric at Gadsby's Tavern, Old Town Alexandria, VA, celebrating grandma Immy's 90th birthday

    Patti at the Newseum, Washington, DC, part of a slideshow

2008

    Our 2008 holiday card picture

    Posing with Red Auerbach at Quincy Market in the days after the Celtics won the 2008 NBA title

    Eric & mother Immy in Boise

    Ben

    Hayley   (we go for daily dog walks)

    Eric & Patti at a wedding

    Ben

2007

    Our 2007 holiday card pictures

    Immy and her three boys—Ed, Eric, and David (see us in 1955)
   

Alex, Ben, and Eric in back Rosenfields (Ed, Arthur, Jonathan, Megan, & Jon) in front

2006

    Our 2006 holiday card picture

    Alex

    Ben, the thespian

2005

    Our 2005 holiday card picture

    Patti & Eric in Old Saybrook

    The boys and their cars.

Alex

Ben

    Pepper, our new kitten

2004

    Our 2004 holiday card picture

    My family of origin—David, Eric, Ed, & Mom (Immy)

Eric & Patti at a party with friends Jim & JoAnne.

2003

    Atlantis Hotel, Bahamas – our 2003 holiday card picture

    Alex

    Ben

    Alex in the Bahamas

2002

    At sunset in Mallory Square, Key West – our 2002 holiday card picture

    Hayley at 8 months

    After several months apart, Hayley had a reunion with some of her siblings

    Mandy grows up

    Hayley is our new puppy

2001

    On the Cape – our 2001 holiday card picture

    Alex from his Hingham High football team photo

    Mandy, our new kitten

    Patti described this as my befuddled professor look

2000

    Our 2000 holiday card picture

    Ben dancing with Carli

    On Liberty Island (the Statue of Liberty), New York City

    Alex and Eric

1999

    Our 1999 holiday card picture

    Alex playing basketball in driveway

    Bel and Hunter

    Right before haircut

1998

    Hingham in the fall – our 1998 holiday card picture

    One last long hair fling at age 50.

    At a Bar Mitzvah in New York

    Mysty, one of our 2 cats    Bel, our golden retriever

    Ben (holding Mysty) and Grandma (holding Hunter)

    Grandma Immy (my mother) on a glacier in Alaska

1997

    Hingham Harbor with Bel

1995

    Vacationing in Seattle – our 1995 holiday card picture

    At our nephew's graduation party

    Ben and Bel

1994

    The family with Grandma (Immy) and Bel

    Ben and Bel at World's End, Hingham   

    Ben with a couple of his architectural wonders
    Wooden blocks    Paper cups

    Ben and Bel, our new puppy

1993

    Jessie, our Australian Shepherd, was with us from 1978 to 1993.

    Ben, 1993

    Eric's dad, Jack, died this year

1992

    Alex starts school in September

    In Sedona, Arizona

1991

    Dick Tracy and Phantom Of The Opera go trick-or-treating

    In our yard

    Ben

1990

    Both sets of grandparents visiting, pictured in our living room

    The family, 1990

    Alex, 1990

    Ben enjoys some watermelon

    Alex at Lion Country Safari, Florida

    Ben and Eric

    Brotherly love

1980s

    Alex is the third Pence generation to wear these chaps, 1989

    Alex and Ben in jammies, 1989

    In our living room, 1987

    Alex plays with bubbles, 1987

    Eric, Patti, and Alex, 1986, at my parents' in Boise    Eric and Patti, 1986

    My brother, David, and his daughter, Heather, 1984

    Eric, Patti, and Jessie, 1983

    We move to Hingham, 1982

    Eric, Patti, and our dog, Jessie, 1981

    Patti and Jessie, 1980

1970s

    Our wedding, July 29, 1979.

				We were married at an antique house in Waltham, MA, named The "Vale" (click for photos of the estate)   Special songs for Patti and me
	With our folks	Eric's family	Patti's family

    Patti and Eric sailing, about 1978

    Patti, 1978

    Patti and her dog Ben, 1977

    Me at friend's apartment in New York, 1976

    Jan and L.A. at my 2nd Fenway apartment, 1976

    My best friends Jan and L.A. at my Fenway apartment, 1975

    With college friend L.A. at my Fenway apartment, 1975

    As a Berklee College of Music student, 1974

    Me visiting Seattle, 1974

    David, Eric, & Ed, at parents' house, about 1971

    In parents' Idaho front yard with brother Ed, 1970

    Playing my Martin guitar in my parents' driveway, 1970

1960s

    With my buddy Bill and brother Ed, 1969

    With Seattle friends, 1969 (4 of us have reconnected on Facebook in 2010)

    On the ferry from Seattle to Victoria, BC, 1969

    With Seattle friends, 1968

    Letting my hair grow, 1967

    Playing cards in dorm as a college freshman at University of Idaho, 1966

    High school senior picture, 1966

    As a Boys State delegate, 1965

    14 years old and licensed to drive in Idaho, 1962

    Using that greasy kid stuff at age 12, 1960

    With neighbor Bobby as beatnik musicians, 1960

1950s

    My class pictures from grades 1-6 at Payette Eastside Elementary, 1954-1960

	1st grade Miss Hisa	2nd grade Mrs. Hickerson	3rd grade Mrs. Barrett	4th grade Mrs. Hill	5th grade Mrs. Betts	6th grade Mrs. Williams

    My family-of-origin visits Washington, DC, 1956 (this photo, Ed wasn't with us that day) and New York City

    The Pence boys—Ed, Eric, David—about 1955

    Grandpa & Grandma Boyer (my mother's parents) in 1951

1940s

    Eric, 1949

    David & Eric, 1949

    Pences, 1949

    Eric (at 1 month) with Mom, 1948

    My parents in their San Francisco days, 1945

1930s

    Immy and Jack (my parents) when they met in college in 1938—good looking people

My 2 brothers

   I grew up with 2 brothers and thought besides photos of my current family and parents they should be pictured somewhere on this page.

    My older brother David and his daughter Heather. David died of Early-onset Alzheimer's in 2012 at age 66.

    My younger brother, Ed, lives in Los Angeles and is also retired and never married. He lives with his partner/girlfriend, Aganaze.

Snapshots     ( main Gallery page above )

My cellphone photos

My cellphone is like a camera that I have with me at all times, and I am using Perl and Ajax to display these photos I have taken with it on webpages. They are all shown in slideshows.

Otis Hill Walks – I walk every day with our dog around our neighborhood Kindness Stones 2015 snowstorm – also on Facebook 2011 snowstorm – also on Facebook 2011 Hurricane Irene – also on Facebook 2005 snowfall Previous house   – this was the first house in Hingham we lived in 1982-2016 before we moved to this house Commuter boat photos Boats in Boston Harbor Fan Pier development photos – I saw this every day when I was commuting by boat Dog walks – in memory of Lucy Florida vacations photos San Francisco, 2005 Washington, DC, photos Clinton photos Ice sculptures Leon's Bentley Salacia ferry photos Seth Thomas clock Mom's apartment Boise visit Segway photos Old Saybrook 2006 St. Patricks Day Party

      More photo pages on my website

Italy, 2018	–	from a 2018 trip to Italy
Europe photos	–	from a 2010 trip to Europe
Blizzard of '78	–	I walked around and took these photos after that famous storm; they've actually been used in a couple of books
Super Bowl Party, 2004	–	these were taken by friend JoAnne's brother, Paul
The Big Dig	–	these were taken by a friend of mine of the Big Dig highway construction project
Mypics	–	my first digital photos
Aerial photos	–	some great aerial photography I have found on the web
Boston aerials	–	aerial photos of Boston I have found on the web

Remote photo pages

Wynn White Photography	–	my friend Wynn provides some beautiful photography and some great digital imaging resources, and best of all for me, all the way from Japan he has helped me with some of my images on this website (see more from Wynn on my Friends page)
The Lyman Estate	–	the antique house Patti and I rented for our wedding in 1979