Alissa and Doug's wedding June 2008 More wedding pictures

This website is maintained by Judy and Gil Nicholls for communicating to friends and family -- mostly with photos of our trips and photos of friends and family and their projects.

Recent trips with photos in our Photo Galleries: El Cielo, Mexico, and lots of wildflowers at Inks Lake State Park.

In October 2008, Gil and Judy purchased a new motorhome, a Navion IQ. It's a little larger than the Rialta but still gets pretty good gas mileage with its Mercedes diesel engine. This spring, 2010, we purchased a used jeep to pull behind the Navion and to use locally on our bad Texas backroads. We will be heading north in June to escape the hot summers in Texas.

Judy's Nicholls Photo website is for the better photos, as opposed to fun photos, family photos, travelogues arranged in photo galleries by subject. The photo blog, is a place she posts some pictures she particularly likes on a fairly regular basis. That is in addition to her flickr photo stream.

Judy is now a member of the art co-op in Wimberley called Bent Tree Gallery. She regularly displays her photography in the Wimberley Valley Art League's juried shows. In February 2009 she was accepted as an exhibiting member of the New Braunfels Art League. She has made some sales there despite the poor economy. She is also secretary of the San Marcos Art League and developed a website for them. She also developed websites for the Wimberley Valley Art League and the Country Classics shop in Wimberley.

For Gil's pictures, visit his flickr site. Alissa is uploading pictures to flickr.com and webshots.com.

Please visit our Photo Gallery. Want to see those old pictures? Pictures of new babies? Travel pictures? More coming all the time. Gil is the scanning person and after the new year will get back to the project of scanning slides and negatives. It is very time-consuming but it's nice to see those things again! A new one in the album section is USSR 1979: Three months in Siberia. This is the Soviet Union under communism and includes Siberia and trips to Bukhara, Samarkand, Armenia, Leningrad (now St. Petersburg again), and Moscow.

Photo Gallery: Maine 2008 with Alissa's wedding and lots of lighthouses and 2008 West with mountains and hot springs and red rocks and steam trains. Gil and Judy's 2007 summer trip away from the Texas heat. First they went east to see Gil's children, then to Illinois lake place for a few weeks, then back to Texas via Colorado and New Mexico. New pictures of Nate and Bruce and their environs, and pictures of Doug visiting Nate and Bruce. Enjoy pictures of us almost being hit by a huge rock on a Colorado road and a train ride through the mountains on a train pulled by an authentic antique steam engine.

Also, under Family Albums are pictures of Bruce from birth to his teens and a selection of baby pictures of Bruce, Douglas, and Nathan. The slide show presentations Mexico 1968 & 1972, National Parks 1965-66, and Summer Vacations 1969 & 1970 are also linked in here.

We are currently immersed in scanning and cataloging old slides and negatives. For those of you with slides, we suggest you take a look at them. We have found that slides fade, change color, and mold. Hence we are trying to get them scanned and onto a computer before further deterioration occurs. Hundreds are now scanned and here's a taste of what is there.

We've named our home in Wimberley Casa Magnolia. For more pictures, visit Casa Magnolia.

Once again we have a little motorhome which we enjoy traveling in. We are retaining for the time being a lake getaway in Illinois so we can escape from those hot Texas summers. After years of operating a travel agency and traveling the world, we now want to see the USA by mini motorhome.

Our concerns and interests, besides our personal hobbies, include protecting the environment, responsible government, conservation, human rights, protection of those among us not as lucky as we are, and most of all combating global warming.