Image Gallery for the Niesz Family
This was my family's last picture in Austria, taken December 1955. Note that my brother John and I were wearing our Lederhosen!!!
This is my very own favorite orrery, and shows all the planets revolving around the sun, together with a couple of minor planetoids, Ceres and Eris. The first orrery was made for Charles Boyle, the fourth Earl of Orrery, and it was built by John Rowney and George Graham in London in 1704. Orreries are a powerful symbol of the Enlightenment!!!
engaged
our wedding
at our nephew's wedding
family with me
Oma Niesz
Rex carrying purse
Fasching 1935 with young Opa Niesz
broadcasting the seed
Lisa at nephew's wedding
Tony the mariner
John at Newportville Rod and Gun Club
Three Generations of Niesz men
Pittsburghers visiting
second grandson
grandsons
Stephen and Samuel
Helga
Helga and Tony with his fave flower
Helga on boat
inguinal hernia
kids in suits
future ham N1LWI
kids in life jackets
rowing the dinghy
dinghy adventure
My female Oscar (astronotus ocellatus), very gentle with the smaller fish
tour of the Thimble Islands
Jen
Jen and Henry
Stephen supportintg a tree
Tony and Stephen
Stephen the sailor
Stephen as mariner
Stephen kayaking
Marie with Tony and Stephen
Marie with Tony and Stephen
Stevie wins
first Sony digital camera
first picture of me
John and I
John with horsey
John and Vinnie's wedding
John and Vinnie
John
Stephen and I
at the marina
at our slip
at the marina
Rolling Home at the dock
at the marina
Rolling Home from dolphin's perspective
Rolling Home leaving the dock
Video courtesy of the Branford Fire Department
On a late August Sunday evening, the idiots who owned the boat docked on my port side had a very wild party on their boat. They got so drunk that they set their boat on fire, and it burned up completely down to the water line. Unfortunately for me, the wind was blowing the flames from their boat onto mine, and damaged it severely. (My boat is behind the burning boat and on the left side of the video.) My insurance company declared my boat totalled, and paid me the agreed upon value (i.e., the purchase price minus the taxes.) Unfortunately, I had added about $25,000 in improvements, such as a Vetus bow thruster, a digital radar system, twin gps chartplotters/radar plotters (for the helm stations in the flybridge as well as the main cabin!), a marine ethernet system to connect the radar with the two chart plotters, two gps enhanced VHF marine radio systems (for the flybridge and the main cabin), a barbecue unit, a digital TV, a dinghy, etc. These improvements were not insured, and so I lost about $25,000 in all. Worse than that, the Bayliner company stopped manufacturing larger boats such as mine (31.5 feet!)and concentrated on the much cheaper to build boats shorter than 23 feet. The only boat that had comparable features to mine was a Sea Ray, which unfortunately costs about $70,000 more! So I really need to save my pennies, which I am not very good at! ;)
3D printing a large lenscap for my 102mm refracting telescope
Lisa's favorite picture of herself
Tony and Lauren's wedding
Henry's wearing his life jacket
boating lunch anchored off Charles Island
at our favorite anchorage
Stephen's cosplay group
working in construction for Anastasi brothers
extended family on Block Island