Lakowsky Mystery

Happy 40th Birthday, Alik!

Lake Tahoe 2015

Snow Chains

 At Kings Beach, Lake Tahoe

Going Sledding, Incline Village, Nevada

Live from Norwalk

Max needs a haircut or two

--Leon

Ask me about this Sous-Vide setup

L.A. Trip 2014

Happy Holidays!

View from Griffith's Observatory, L.A.
(see HOLLYWOOD sign far back)

At a bistro in Santa Monica

Max's Recital Dec 2014

Полочка

Made by Boris

Happy Birthday, Mom

Попал под лошадь...

UFO over Paris

Irene took this picture while in Paris on business.

UFOs over Paris

Silver in Marriage Olympics

Medals were presented to the happy couple by their children.
Marseillaise was heard playing in the background.

Digital Shorts

Выходной

(featuring Prof. Ryskin)

Утро

Recital

Father's Day

For Father's Day, besides this fabulous card, I got a fully cleaned and re-decorated basement, equipment with homemade workbench.

Click for more pictures

NYU Cycling Team

NYU Cycling Team - cartoon by Leon's teammate. Leon is on the far right.

See NYU Cycling Team Instagram page for more pictures.

Beauty and the Beast

Max played Beauty's mad-inventor father Maurice in SLS production of Beauty and the Beast

Happy Birthday Leon

Mogul

Наш парень из Сочи

Maximus

The handiwork of winter storm Maximus

Maximus is cleaning up after the namesake storm

Night Skiing

Night Skiing at Park City, UT
(stolen from Leon's Instagram)

Skiing in Park City, UT

Alik, Daniel and Leon are at 2-day skiing trip in Park City.

Click here to see pictures

At 12,000 feet - Film by Alik

Happy New Year

The traditional January 1st annual outing on the skate rink in Westport...

... followed by Master Art Class on "... how to draw deda..."

... and the lesson continued a couple of days later by sculpting an anatomically correct and rather excited snowman

More pictures from the outing are available here

Today we lost A.F. Popov. The most devoted, if not the only, fan and reader of this blog. He will be forever in our thoughts.

... у нас было такое "мужское" общение - мы никогда лично не разговарили, очень редко обменивались письмами. Но я знал, что он там есть, что он про нас знает и думает и мне было от этого хорошо. Надеюсь, что наши редкие сообщения тоже доставляли ему радость...

Happy Birthday, Irene

Irene is in Paris

Irene went to a short trip to Paris, where she met Olya and her beaux S.

... The pictures are coming...

Chicago

Lyakhovetskiy, Lyakovetsky and Lakowsky met for a get-together weekend in Chicago.

We took a river tour of this surprisingly good looking and clean city. Then we settled for a long lunch at Trump Plaza, overlooking Chicago river and lake Michigan. There we performed a field study on what's better: Scotch or Bourbon. The results were inconclusive. We'll have to repeat it again.

At night, Dad took kids to the movies (first time, since early eighties, if ever). We saw Gravity. We didn't like it.

.... Pictures will be here soon....

Eugene Onegin

"I was re-reading Moby Dick the other day ...it's about this whale..." 
                                                                                  (Wonderful Town)

Irene with the kids went to see Eugene Onegin at the Mets. Not to fall behind, I got a recording from iTunes, which led to re-reading of the book.

The book is pure genius. How about this, for example:

XXXIII

...Когда благому просвещенью

Отдвинем более границ,

Современем (по расчисленью

Философических таблиц,

Лет чрез пятьсот) дороги, верно,

У нас изменятся безмерно:

Шоссе Россию здесь и тут,

Соединив, пересекут.

Мосты чугунные чрез воды

Шагнут широкою дугой,

Раздвинем горы, под водой

Пророем дерзостные своды,

И заведет крещеный мир

На каждой станции трактир...

Mind you, it's 1826.

BTW, did you know that the book had no Prince Gremin character. It was written by Tchaikovsky.