vivid:[adj]  having the clarity and freshness of immediate experience; "a vivid recollection"

Welcome to my on line place
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Amateur I am so please be kind
Patterns over time you'll see
While good memories flow vividly

Updated: 052014
 
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Online since 1.999x10^3
2012	More Coming Soon Hearst Castle State Park CA 110412 Slide show San Simeon CA 110312 Slide show Yosemite's Half Dome With Taylor 081212 Slide show Lisa's Birthday 080212 Slide show Stuart in Lake Tahoe 061612 Slide show
2011	Christmas 122512 Slide show Pnut and Friends 122311 Slide show Stockton Run to Feed the Hungry 112411 Slide show Stockton Half Marathon 102311 Slide show Charise and Damien 083011 Slide show Las Vegas 082711 Slide show Yosemite Half Dome 082711 Slide show Yosemite Cloud's Rest 081711 Slide show Mono Lake and Mammoth Lakes, CA 081311 Slide show Bodie, CA 081211 Slide show Yosemite's Cloud's Rest Day Hike 062511 Slide show Pinecrest Lake, CA 060111 Slide show Flash Mob and Flowers 052311 Slide show
2010	Christmas 122510 Slide show Grand Canyon 122610 Slide show Yosemite Falls and Sentinal Dome 101010 Slide show Yosemite's Vernal Falls, 092010 Slide show Yosemite Falls, George and Orchids, 040110 Slide show
2009	End of 2009, 121209 Slide show Yosemite, 101109 Slide show Celebrations, 080909 Slide show Ellis Peak, Lake Tahoe, 070609 Slide show California Lake, 070509 Slide show California Beach, 070409 Slide show Yosemite, 061409 Slide show Flowers and Fish, 061309 Slide show See Ping Lee, 042409 Slide show Start of 2009, 041109 Slide show End of 2008, 040509 Slide show Family Portraits, 012609 Slide show
2008	Halloween Photos, 103108 Slide show Baby Fest 2, 080908 Slide show Portraits, 080808 Slide show Wyatt's First Birthday Photos, 072008 Slide show Jarrod's All Star Game, 061208, Slide show Updated Family Tree with 5 printable images Taylor's Graduation Photos, 060508 Slide show Hayden and Friends, 060108 Slide show Taylor's Senior Prom, 051008 Slide show Michael Buble, 050308 Slide show Home Photos, 042208 Slide show Family Photos, 032108 Slide show Pnut Poses, 031608 Slide show Blue Man Group, 011208 Slide show
2007 (1200x800 pixel images)	Family Photos, 122507 or Slide show Family Photos, 112507 or Slide show Thanksgiving Dogs, 112407 or Slide show Disneyland Day 3 Photos, 112007 or Slide show Disneyland Day 2 Photos, 111907 or Slide show Disneyland Day 1 Photos, 111807 or Slide show P-nut Photos, 092407 or Slide show Portraits, 092307 or Slide show Gary's Wedding, 090107 or Slide show More Puppy Photos, 080407 or Slide show New Puppy Photos Here, 071407 or Slide show Garden Photos, 070807 or Slide show Computer transplant, 070507 or Slide show Morrissey Concert in Stockton, 042707 or Slide show Roses and Other Blooms, 051507 or Slide show Foothill Tour, 032407 or Slide show Baby Fest, 031007 or Slide show Family Photos, 031407 or Slide show Bad cats, 022807 or Slide show Tour of California Bike Race, 022107 or Slide show Lincoln Basketball Cheer, 021607 or Slide show Corina, 021007 or Slide show
2006 (800x600 pixel images)	Christmas Trojans at Tracy(West), November 11 Monica and David's Baby Shower, November 26, 2006 Raiders at 49ers football game October 08 Yosemite Hike to Half Dome August 26 Backyard Life August 21 Unusual Rose and New Fish August 16 Creature found July 30 Backyard Flowers 8 July 16 Fourth of July Photos Backyard Flowers 7 June 27 Backyard Flowers 6 June 21 Backyard Water Fun June 17 Yosemite on June 16 Wilson and Leeanne's Wedding Web Photos on June 10 Wilson and Leeanne's Reception on June 10 Naomi's Birthday Party May 28 Backyard Flowers 5 May 20 Backyard Flowers 4 May 11 More Cats May 6 Backyard Flowers 3 May 6 Backyard Flowers 2 April 30 Backyard Flowers 1 April 29 Driveway Basketball April 17 More Cats and Fish April 16 Laptop Autopsy April 10 Kay's Flowers April 8 SaberCats and Third Eye Blind April 2 Cat in a Box March 19 Stuart's Birthday Cake March 14 Severe Weather March 14 XBOX Party March 5 Monica is a Doctor February 11 Corina is Two February 11 Good-bye Shima Tract February 4 Naomi and Globetrotters January 15 Winchester Mystery House January 15
2005 (26 links!)	Christmas day Christmas eve Twelve Days of Christmas Aunt Gayle style Various December 3 and 10 Yosemite on November 6 Yosemite on November 5 Fish Pumpkins in October Great America on October 22 Taylor's digital images web pages on taylor.vividlee.com My how to See P., In Memory of Santa Cruz Family and Friends Reunion Fireworks Photos on July 4 Cat Eyes in July Yosemite on June 18 Day at the Beach Flower Photos from May Yosemite on May 27 Great America on May 21 Yosemite on May 14 Flower Photos from April Family Snapshots from March Yosemite on March 3 Family Snapshots from January
2004 (digital begin)	Family Tree Project December September, October and November Assortment Taylor Fish Photos Page Fun with software Photo Projects Flowers around the house Insects around the house June in Southern California Cats, Dogs and Fish April in Bryce Canyon National Park Easter in Zion Canyon National Park March in Yosemite Valley
2003 (35 mm film end)	Christmas Mount Hoffman, Yosemite National Park Race Across AMerica, RAAM Laurel Lake, Yosemite National Park Arizona, New Mexico
2002	Vernal Falls, Yosemite National Park 50 Views of Half Dome 36 views of Mount Fuji Roller Coasters Magic Mountain, California Split Mountain, California Sentinel Dome and Taft Point, Yosemite January Photos
2001	Mission Peak, California Half Dome, Yosemite National Park Mount Rose, Ohlone Wilderness, California Pinnacles National Monument, California Tony's Running Report Taylor's Miwok Report Stuart's Poem Report Tony's Old Web Page
2000	Some flower photos Glacier Point in Yosemite Easter Legoland, CA Disneyland, CA Mount Whitney, CA Mount Tinemaha, CA Butano State Park, CA 3 Family Photos
1999	Young Cats Mount Dana, Yosemite Halloween Big Trees State Park, CA Mount Lassen National Park, CA Mount Shasta, CA Family Photos 1 Family Photos 2 Family Photos 3 Family Photos 4 Family Photos 5
1998	Yosemite Falls, Yosemite Bridalveil Falls, Yosemite
1997	Clouds Rest, Yosemite Vernal Falls, Yosemite Pinnacles National Monument, CA Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
1996	Family Photos
1995 (35 mm film begin)	Mount Whitney Family Photos
1994	Family Photos
1993	Yosemite in September Photos Family Photos
1992
1991
1990
1989 (110 film end)	Half Dome first hike to the top
1988	Clark Fork Camping
1987	Sonora Pass CA Yosemite Valley, CA
1986	Disneyland CA
1985
1984
Your Links	Wil'sYouTube videos Jarrod's YouTube videos Taylor's MySpace and other pages Faye's wedding photos Katy's (and Jeff) web page
My Links	See me here Contact me here Read how I make vividlee.com Family Tree Project Hikes Web Pages History
Fun Links	Half Dome from the Awanhee Meadow in Yosemite Valley CA Half Dome from Sentinal Dome Half Dome Turtleback Dome View looking west from Turtleback Dome Point Reyes  Point Reyes Beach from Point Reyes National Seashore CA Sequoia  view from the Edge of Giant Forest in Sequoia-Kings Canyon National Park CA Mount Wilson  LARGE FORMAT image of the view from Mt Wilson Observatory in So CA Lake Crescent  of  Olympic National Park WA North Cascades  the North Cascades National Park in WA Mount Rainier  view from Paradise Rainier National Park WA Earth from Hawaii to Alaska to California (as seen from a satellite live infrared) Earth from Mexico to Cuba to Canada(as seen from a satellite live infrared) Local weather
Other Links	Google (search the web for vividlee and you should find my web page at the number one result!) Yahoo News: Most e-mailed, look for popular news link  here ARS Technica computer and technology news Yosemite National Park, YNP current conditions in the park Yahoo Mail web based email Newegg Computer hardware shopping B&H Photo and Video store Pricewatch.com computer and tech shopping good for price comparisons Winamp Shoutcasts - Free streaming Internet radio Webshots image sharing and screen saver Taishan interesting regional Chinese web site Web Hosting by Directnic.com
Big Hikes	Cloud's Rest via the Four Mile and Panorama Trails Half Dome, Yosemite Valley National Park, CA, 8,842 feet, day hiked it too many times to remember the count  (maybe 6 times) and climbed via the Snake Dike route once Cloud's Rest, Yosemite National Park, CA, 9,926 feet, hiked from Tenaya Lake to Clouds Rest to Yosemite Valley day hike Mount Whitney(1), Mount Whitney(3), CA, 14,495 feet, three times, two one day hikes Phantom Ranch, AR, on the Colorado River at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, a three day backpack trip Glacier Point, Yosemite, CA, cross country skied from Badger Pass to Glacier Pt and back in a day Mount Muir, CA, 14,012 feet, bagged this one on the last Whitney day hike Mount Dana, Yosemite, CA, 13,053 feet, from Tioga Road entrance, day hike Mount Tinemaha, CA, 12,520 feet, this peak was attained on a Split Mountain attempt, day hike Mount Shasta, CA, 14,162 feet, this one took two attempts over consecutive weekends, the first attempt reached 12,000 feet,  the second day hike was successful! Rose Peak, CA, 3,817 feet, Ohlone Wilderness, 10 miles in and 10 miles out, two day backpack trip Clouds Rest, Yosemite, CA, 9,926 feet, hiked from the Valley floor and back in a day, 10.5 miles one way, 5,900 feet elevation gain Split Mountain, CA, 14,058 feet, day hike from the approximately 6,000 feet elevation trail head
Hikes ad nauseum	National Parks Yosemite National Park, California Valley, 3,980 [1,213 meters], hikes in or originating from Yosemite Falls, base of Bridalveil Falls, base of Vernal Falls, base of and top of Nevada Falls, base of and top of Half Dome, 8,842 [2,695 meters] Clouds Rest, 9,926 [3,025 meters] Glacier Point, 7,214 [2,199 meters] Inspiration Point Four Mile Trail(1), Four Mile Trail(2) Panorama Trail, Ililouette Falls Columbia Rock Yosemite Point, 6,936 [2,114 meters],  top of Yosemite Falls Mirror Lake, 4,094 [1,248 meters] Snow Creek North Dome Eagle Peak El Capitan John Muir Trail Tioga Road, hikes originating from Mount Dana, 13,053 [3,979 meters] Mount Hoffman, 10,850 [3,307 meters] May Lake Clouds Rest, 9,926 [3,025 meters] Ten Lakes Grand Canyon of the Tuolemne River Tuolemne Meadows, hikes originating from Lembert Dome, 9,450 [2,846 meters] Cathedral Peak, 10,940 [3,335 meters] Cathedral Lake Young Lake, Dog Lake Waterwheel Falls Mount Lyell, Lyell Canyon, 13,114 [3,997 meters] John Muir Trail Glacier Point, hikes originating from Sentinel Dome, 8,122 [2,476 meters] Taft Point Ostrander Lake Other Chilnualna Falls Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA Mount Lassen, aka Lassen Peak Bumpas Hell Kings Canyon, Sequoia National Park, CA Sawtooth Peak Crater Lake National Park, OR Wizard Island Rainier National Park, WA Wonderland Trail, circuit around the mountain Olympic National Park, WA Mount Olympus Grand Canyon National Park, AZ Phantom Ranch California Fourteeners Mount Langley, 14,015 [4,272 meters] Mount Whitney, 14,495 [4,418 meters] Mount Russell, 14,086 [4,293 meters] Mount Williamson, 14,015 [4.272 meters] Split Mountain, 14,058 [4,285 meters] Middle Palisade, 14,040 [4,279 meters] Mount Sill, 14,162 [4,317 meters] Polemonium Peak, 14,200 [4,328 meters] North Palisade, 14,242 [4,341 meters] Starlight Peak, 14,200 [4,328 meters] Thunderbolt Peak, 14,003 [4,268 meters] White Mountain, 14,246 [4,342 meters] Mount Shasta, 14,162 [4,317 meters] Cascade Volcanos In California Lassen Peak, 10,457 feet [3,187 meters] Mount Shasta, 14,162 feet [4,317 meters] In Oregon: Mount McLoughlin, 9,495 feet [2,894 meters] Mount Thielsen, 9,182 feet [2,799 meters] Mount Bachelor, 9,065 feet [2,763 meters] Broken Top, 9,152 feet [2,790 meters] South Sister, 10,047 feet [3,157 meters] Middle Sister, 10,047 feet [3,062 meters] North Sister, 10,085 feet [2,377 meters] Mount Washington, 7,800 feet [2,377 meters] Three Fingered Jack, 7,841 feet [2,377 meters] Mount Jefferson, 10,495 feet [3,199 meters] Mount Hood, 11,239 feet [3,426 meters] In Washington: Mount Adams, 12,276 feet [3,742 meters] Mount Saint Helens, 8,365 feet [2,550 meters] Mount Rainier, 14,411 feet [4,392 meters], also known as Tahoma Glacier Peak, 10,568 feet [3,221 meters] Mount Baker, 10,778 feet [3,285 meters] Pacific Crest Trail California Oregon Washington Other Hikes in California Mission Peak Rose Peak, Ohlone Wilderness Mount Diablo Ellis Peak, Lake Tahoe Hikes in Nevada Boundary Peak
Wish List	Ten Most Wanted, no order White Mountain, CA, 14'er Mount Langley, CA, 14'er Mount Rainier, WA, Cascade Volcano Mount Hood, OR, Cascade Volcano Crater Lake, OR, former Cascade Volcano Ellis Peak, CA, above Lake Tahoe Mount Hoffman, CA, Yosemite NP, overlooking May Lake Boundary Peak, NV, highest point in Nevada Mount Lyell, CA, Yosemite NP Bryce Canyon NP,  UT and Zion NP,  UT
Web History	My first web page was born around December 1999.  It was a free web page hosted by MSN.  It had pop up ads associated with every page.  It was also limited to 12 Megabytes.  I used this for 2 years and shared many photos and web pages.  It was fun, I hope you enjoyed it.  But the 12 MB limit, the ads, the labor intensive maintenance turned me off.  I will not maintain those old, free pages anymore.  So in January 2002, I quit MSN the Internet Service Provider and signed up with a local isp.  I am now dialing up, unlimited access at 56K for 10 bucks a month and have 20 MB web space.. Yahoo.  Someday I will host and serve my own domain then we will see something.     Another major revision here.  2003 and I have deleted all the java junk from my pages.  That stuff was fun, but it took up space and forced me to delete half of my old pages.  So gone is the java but in its place all my old pages from 1999, 2000, and 2001.  I have also added pages of photos from 1997 and 1998, I am using a super small file size now and the resolution of the pictures is low.  But this strategy allows faster loading and I am able to have more pages.  Check em out, hope you enjoy them.     It's now April 2004.  I have been at the limit of my free 20 MB from Gotnet.net and they turned off my ftp access, I am unable to update or add to my web pages.  I have looked around and Lanset.net is a local isp that is offering 8.95 a month unlimited access with 60 MB of personal web space. Gotnet at the same time is up to 15 dollars a month now with the same old 20 MB limit.  I am considering going to pbase.com to open a 23 dollars per year 100 MB photo hosting site.  That is less than 2 dollars a month.  So if you do the math I could get a combined web storage of 160 MB plus unlimited dial up internet access for 11 dollars a month.  Probably enough for 160 pages of photos or 640 pictures at 250 kb per photo.  My new digital camera makes it real easy to create web pages with much higher quality photos.  No more scanning, yea!  I briefly considered Directnic.com because they offer 15 dollar domain name and 20 MB of free web space for a year.  And for 15 dollars more, ad free web space for a year.  Nice deal but I still would need dial up or dsl or cable on top of that.     I am trying to unify and make more consistent my page styles.  I am settling on a page of thumbnails and text, edited with Netscape composer version 4.72.  I have no animated gifs, java or flash.  So blah blah blah it just goes on and on doesn't it, ha ha.  Just go back to the photo pages and enjoy.     Here we are in August 2004, the new isp seems to work ok.  I found some old pages that I deleted a long time ago.  I just restored them.  They are from 1999 and 2000, kitten's page and mom's page.  Added links to other people's online photos, see the links at the top. My web site now consists of 32.5 megabytes, 1,123 files, 65 folders and over 50 pages.      Here we are in September 2004, I have started the Family Tree Project and added a web page for that.      Added a Photo Fun Page for a couple of gag photos that I created.  Check it out.     Added a page of fish photos.  Those fast movers are near impossible to photograph, but I get a few ok photos to share.      June 2005 and the weather is cool and rainy?  Wow time to work on the old web page.  I have added some photos from September through December 2004.  Also I am putting in January through June 2005 pages of photos.  Been to Yosemite 3 times this year and will go again on June 18. Check out the new photos.  It is now easier to process digital pictures with a batch resizer and automatic rename functions for thumbnails.  The only difficulty now is the culling process to decide what to include and what to leave out for brevity sake.  Each session with the camera can generate 50, 100 or more photos.  I am also now considering 15 dollars per month dsl with a dynamic ip, that means faster uploads and downloads which could mean larger format images and/or more images per page.  Most people now have broadband and speed is not an issue for many of us.  My web site is now 54+MB and 1500+ files, I will be making a change when the I reach the 60MB limit of my isp.  Stay tuned for more.      Welcome to the old web page hosted on the new host, Directnic.com.  July 2005.      I have been active lately with the web pages because of the new dsl isp and new host.  I am up to 75 MB of data hosted and 700 KB/s down and 384 KB/s up.  We all share the connection and have left dial-up forever.      Just added photos pages of pumpkins and another trip to Great America. This is just under 3MB of data.      November, 2005 and I present some fish photos and photos from Tioga Road and Yosemite Valley, enjoy.  Added many links to live cams around the western US.  The quality of these images has gotten better recently.  I am still researching home web server options.      December, 2005: added December photos and removed inactive live cam links.      Two thousand six, '06, just added Christmas eve and Christmas day pages of photos.  My digital camera says I have taken over 5000 photos.  At this rate I will surely hit my 6000th digital image in '06, probably in the summer.  2005 was a good year for my web site, it is now a portly 90+MB.      Added Whitney and Family Photos pages in the 1995 section and some new pages for 2006.  Photos from Winchester Mystery house, Globetrotters, Shima Tract, and January 11 family celebrations.  And deleted some inactive webcam links.  Added one new live cam link for a West facing cam, West of Yosemite Valley.  Google searches for vividlee results in my web page as the number one return, cool, finally.      Removed Louis' link, added Gary's, added the 2007 pages up to the baby fest on March.  Added Tioga live camera image link.  New thumbnails are color and the large images are now 1200x800 pixels.  This means more work for me because I have to crop each image before resizing.  On the plus side they look better and are good for printing.  On the minus side the file sizes are slightly larger and the top of people's heads sometimes get sacrificed.      The end of 2007 has come and gone.  I have just added the last pages of 2007 that show a few photos of Taylor's performance in the Nutcracker and Charise's graduation.  Also a page of Christmas photos for 2007 has been added. Reformatted tables and text formatting.      Hi, I just added some new content here in mid May.  There are now links in the 2008 area.  Take a look.  I have not taken as many photos as in the past and have been very slow to post to the web.  I have yaken 212 photos as of mid May.  Here are a few of them for you.      Here is an update for 2009.  YouTube was fun until they deleted my video and muted others because of the music track that I added.  DirectNic will only allow .swf files, these are shockwave flash files.  I finally found a free flash publisher and tried it out.  It seems to work and I am able to embed them in new pages and this page.  The only downside is the slower load time and the requirement that active x controls need to be on.  I like it.  The other thing is MS Slide Show PowerToy for XP, I can easily take the same photos and put them in a slide show.  So I will use those two methods primarily and see how it goes.  Now I just need to get out there with my camera and take a lot more photos than I have been.     Canon S50 digital camera failing after five years and over 10,000 exposures.  Looking for a replacement, should be fun and I am looking forward to it very much.  This web site is now over 400 MB.  Looks like 2007 was where the growth really started.  This coincides with my use of MS Powertoy Slide Show.  Also the Flash slide shows I make now are a couple of megabytes each.  I really hope people have fast Internet connections.      Spring 2010, Flash removed and added back with 2009 Flash Slide Show.
Robert Frost	Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it's queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there's some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Louis Armstrong	What a Wonderful World I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and you And I think to myself what a wonderful world. I see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself what a wonderful world. The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky Are also on the faces of people going by I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do They're really saying I love you. I hear babies crying, I watch them grow They'll learn much more than I'll never know And I think to myself what a wonderful world Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world
	Picture One picture is worth a thousand words.
	Journey A journey of a thousands miles begins with one step.
	80/20 Principle There is only one man in the world who will never be turned away.  He is the one that delivers the goods.
	Genghis Khan There is no greater value of a task than it's completion .
	Sometimes you need to stop thinking and start trying.
	Deeds not words
	Thanks for visiting, Tony Lee Contact information About the background image: This is a photo I took on a hike with Stuart on March 3, 2005. We hiked up most of the way to the top of Yosemite Falls in the late afternoon.  As we hiked down the sun was setting.  We reached the trailhead and the car just as the sun went down and darkness fell.  One the way down I snapped a few photos including this one.  I like this one because Half Down is covered in snow, lit up by the setting sun, veiled in a low clouds behind and in front.  The trees along the steep trail framed the scene nicely.  Then at home I used Adobe Photoshop Business Edition to change the photo to black and white, feather the outside edges to a neutral color, increased the brightness, decreased the contrast and then added back some yellow color.  The look I was going for is a bit like old Chinese landscape paintings.  I kinda like the effect.

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