Short Bio:
Follower of Jesus Christ / happily married / seven children / one grandchild / architect / inspector / interests: astronomy, amber, ancient Chinese characters, ancient Chinese bronzes, biblical archaeology, books, calligraphy, carpentry hand tools, dragons (aka dinosaurs), fossils, Japanese wood block prints, Japanese netsuke and inro, lighthouses, millefiori glass paperweights, Mars, Monet, the Moon with binoculars, non-glass marbles, Old English, old maps, passion play of Oberammergau, peach pit carvings, reformed theology, shade gardens, Saturn's rings and moons, sheep, tree-houses, trilobites, Vermeer, wooden puzzles, yurts