Welcome to Eberwhite Woods

<title>Eberwhite Woods</title>

<h1>Welcome to Eberwhite Woods</h1>

Hi, I'm <a href="../">Steve Weiss</a>, one of the many Ann Arbor
residents who lives near and enjoys Eberwhite woods.
In the spring of 1994, I took a couple of rolls of pictures and had them developed
by the Kodak PhotoCD process. From the CD, I was able to make .gif and
.jpeg files for this web site. These pictures were all taken on the
west side of Ann Arbor, MI, near or in Eberwhite woods.
Feel free to view or even download these pictures, but remember that
I took them. All of these pictures, large and small, are copyright 1994,
Steven R. Weiss. I retain all rights to use them.
<p>
What you see here are the 
small (gif) versions of the pictures I took. If you click on any one of them, 
you should be able to see
the large workstation size jpeg versions of them. These take a little
time to load, because of the size of the files, but the time required is
not prohibitive, as the largest image is only 170k bytes.

<p> <!--a href="house.jpeg"--><img src="house.gif"></a>

I took these pictures in the early spring, just as the fruit trees were
blooming. This first picture is a picture of my house, showing one of my
crabapple trees in full bloom. I am very proud of this tree, so this
picture just had to be included. It is right at one entrance to the woods.

<p> <a href="pond.jpeg"><img src="pond.gif"></a>

This next picture is a view of a
shallow pond near the main path through the woods that leads to West
Liberty Street. This pond is so shallow that it dries up every summer,
but right across the path (behind the camera) is another pond. That one
never dries up. There is a third pond in Eberwhite woods, too.

<p> <a href="path.jpeg"><img src="path.gif"></a>

The kids from our neighborhood are really lucky. They walk to Eberwhite
school through this beautiful woods. Here is a picture of the path the
kids take to go to school every day.

<p> <a href="darwin.jpeg"><img src="darwin.gif"></a>

This is a picture of another frequent visitor in the woods. Many dogs
are taken for walks in the woods. This one, posing on the path, is our
very own dog, Darwin. Darwin had just had his annual haircut. Darwin is
a Puli, which is a very hairy breed of sheepdog from Hungary. They never
shed (thank goodness). Darwin has so much fun in the woods all winter,
that by the time spring arrives, there is no hope for his dirty matted
undercoat. The only choice is to shave him down. I'll try to get a
comparison picture showing his normal appearance. He looks 33% larger
than this when his hair is at maximum.

<p> <a href="jonathon.jpeg"><img src="jonathon.gif"></a>

This last picture is my son, Jonathon. It doesn't seem like so long ago
that he was walking to elementary school down
the path through these woods. 
This picture shows him at commencement exercises
at M.I.T., in May, 1994. He is now living in Cambridge, Mass., and
working for MIT as a software developer.
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OK, I admit that the connection to Eberwhite Woods is very tenuous,
in the case of this photograph, but Jonathon walked through these
woods to elementary school for 7 years (K-6), and earned the right to be
included in this web site, in my possibly biased opinion. 


<p> If you like the idea of these pictures, or if you have comments or
suggestions, just send me some <a href="mailto:srw@alum.mit.edu">mail</a>.
I love to get mail.  -srw

<p> Created 6 August, 1995 - updated 22 April, 2000.