 Baby alligator (Sri Lanka, 2011) |
 Home intruder (Indiana, 1987) |
 Zipper spider trapped in a glass (Indiana, 1989) |
 Nazar Tree (Cappadocia, Turkey, 2012) |
 First chess clock (Wisconsin, 1990) |
 Sunflower (Indiana, 1986) |
 Diet Pepsi pop-top (May 2007) |
 Lion cub, South Africa |
 Unfortunate painted stork, Sri Lanka |
 Knocker, State Historical Museum (Moscow, 2007) |
 Forbidden City wall decoration (Beijing, 2009) |
 Young blue jay (Indiana, 1987) |
 Cardinal nest (Indiana, 1988) |
 Old Monk rum (Landour, India 2002) |
 Camel, northern India |
 Parrot (Kuala Lumpur, 2012) |
 Toad (Indiana, 1988) |
 Bucket O' Chicken (Kashmir, India 2011) |
 An Angkor Watt statue (Cambodia, 1999) |
 Abracadabra Costume Shop, New York City |
 Largemouth bass (Indiana 1989) |
 Film for a trip overseas (Indiana, 1990) |
 Brooklyn Bridge (New York, 2004) |
 Bullfrog, Wisconsin |
 Watercolor paints |
 Acasta gneiss (3.96 billion years old) |
 A wire airplane I made, Indiana c. 1986 |
 Giraffe, South Africa |
 Tiger fish, Sri Lanka |
 Voyage of the Beagle -- a favorite |
 Hotel room No Smoking ashtray (Istanbul) |
 A plaque commemorating my great great great great grandfather, Col. Wm. Baylor |
 Grandfather Wheeler's Yashica Mat |
 First fly rod |
 Car keys with bird caller |
 Grandfather Wheeler's chess set |
 Hillsdale report card |
 My hand in a car mirror |
 Woodchuck, Indiana (1986) |
 College-era notes to self |
 Silver cup comemmorating my birth |
 Tamarind tree, Goa, India |
 One of those plates that you make as a kid |
 Apricots, Ladakh, India |
 Giraffe |
 Old fraternity house prior to demolition, Hillsdale, Michigan |
 Some sort of delicious-looking food (Beijing) |
 Tanzania biscuit, Tanzania (1999) |
 Wayward chimney swift, Indiana c. 1987 |
 Zebra, Mauritius (2013) |
 Indian padlock, Mumbai |
 Law school books for one semester |
 Tiger claw marks, Corbett Nat'l Park, India |
 Tackle box, Bloomington, Indiana |
 National Center for the Performing Arts, China |
 Cow skull |
 Barn swallow egg, Indiana |
 John Singer Sargeant's 'Bedouins' |
 Drink on the rim of Mt. Batur, Bali |
 Frosted fence, Northampton, Massachusetts (1996) |
 Two grand |
 My wife's PhD. |
 Softball |
 Drawing of ground floor of imaginary house |
 Coral Fossil, Stone Forest, Kunming, China |
 Largemouth bass, Bloomington, Indiana (1990) |
 I can't for the life of me remember what this is. |
 Basket of Easter eggs |
 Decorated books from Jamia Masjid, Srinagar, India |
 Homegrown tomato, Shelbyville, Indiana |
 A favorite childhood toy |
 Coke can (Borneo, 2012) |
 Station wagon. Note the stickers. |
 2013 World Chess Championship tickets (Anand v. Carlson), Chennai, India |
 Day lily, Indiana (1985) |
 Frog fetish fragment found by my brother, New Mexico |
 Decaying carp following spring floods, Indiana (1989) |
 Visiting duck, Indiana (1989) |
 Aggressive smallmouth bass, Upper Penninsula, Michigan (1987) |
 A mid-1980s sunset, Shelbyville, Indiana |
 Home-grown strawberry, Indiana (1986) |
 Sri Lankan Airlines jet, Male, Maldives |
 Weird Lava, Idaho (2000) |
 Masjid decorations, Srinagar, India |
 old German telescope |
 Sparkler |
 Tulip tree blossom, Indiana (1987) |
 My volleyball |
 Blue gill, Bloomington, Indiana (1990) |
 Snapping turtle, Missouri (2000) |
 Chess engraving at Angkor Watt (1999) |
 Circus wagon wheel, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1988) |
 Another young blue jay, Indiana (1988) |
 Frog in muck, Bloomington, Indiana (1989) |
 Phallic Monkey Statue, Monkey Forest, Ubud, Bali |
 Barn swallow, Indiana (1987) |
 The contents of my son's pocket (2012) |
 Ravina, while riding an elephant in northern Thailand |
 Script painted on wall in Mulbek Chambha, India |
 Tibetan Coke Can, Lhasa (1999) |
 Croppie, Indiana (1991) |
 My first bowling ball |
 Early (1979) tennis racquet |
 Diseased corn, Indiana (1988) |
 Inlaid marble backgammon board |
 Salmon pink birdeater spider, Malaysia (2012) |
 Tiger Trout, Deerfield River, Massachusetts (1998) |
 Seminyak sand, Bali (2013) |
 Grandfather Scott's compass |
 Ravina's clothes, Purdue University (1987) |
 My softball glove |
 Shakira Paddle, Sringar, India (2012) |
 Prayer wheel, Ladakh, India (2014) |
 Khujaro, India statuary (2014) |
 Shaved Ice Vendor, New York City (2015) |
 A ubiquitous flower in Bali (2012) |
 Gorilla, Bronx Zoo |
 Low tide creature, Bali (2012) |
 Mushroom, Oaxaca, Mexico (2003) |
 Dom Perignon, Bloomington, Indiana (1992) |
 Floating ball illustrating Bournoulli's principle |
 Bird at Jurong Bird Park, Singapore |
 Cactus |
 Collection of local stones, Capadoccia, Turkey |
 Pong |
 First wire airplane I made |
 Cultural revolution-era stamp replicates |
 Undergraduate diploma |
 Train, New Delhi (2010) |
 "Extruded snacks," Sri Lanka |
 Books finished during the Summer of 1985 |
 Handgun at an outdoor show, Springfield, Massachusetts(1996) |
 Bowl of Marbles Stone Forest, China |
 Fertility statue, Ubud, Bali |
 Mani stones, Ladakh, India (1997) |
 Dog victim, Indiana (1988) |
 Escaping nightcrawler, Indiana (1990) |
 Thermometer reading on a very cold day in January 1989 (86F), Bloomington, Indiana |
 Tiger footprint, Corbett Nat'l Park, India |
 Film for a trip to India (1992) |
 Current softball glove (1985) |
 Orangutan print, Borneo (2011) |
 Books not finished during the Summer of 1985 |
 Reflection, Switzerland (2013) |
 Still another blue jay, Indiana (1987) |
 Gettysburg cannon (2001) |
 Fymbos flowers, Bali (2008) |
 Turtle, Missouri (2000) |
 Mauritian road sign (2012) |
 Four leaf clover, Shelbyville, Indiana (1988) |
 Jamia Masjid pillar, Srinagar, India (2012) |
 Replica of tobacco tin used by 18th century French fur trappers in North America |
 Early year corvette |
 Sunderbans Tiger Reserve sign (2014) |
 Nothing. Shelbyville, Indiana (c. 1985) |
 Morocco travel items (2003) |
 World's largest pecan on display in San Antonio, Texas |
 Column of Tears, Basilica Cistern, Istanbul (2010) |
 Wire helicopter I made (1985) |
 First Honda I ever bought (1996) |
 Opposum, Indiana (1986) |
 Wheeler Island Road sign, Three Lakes, Wisconsin |
 Toad in hand. Worth two in bush! Indiana (1990) |
 Home-grown cherries, Indiana (1989) |
 Time capsule marker, Sri Lanka |
 Monkey Forest statue, Bali (2008) |
 Fish head from a 4 lb. largemouth bass, Indiana (1989) |
 Figure in Grand Palace, Bangkok (2011) |
 Lots o' Rupees |
 Wedding ring (1992) |
 Beehive, Indiana (1991) |
 Dragon statuary, Bali (2008) |
 Pumpkinseed, Lake Monroe, Indiana (1990) |
 Hillsdale report card |
 Imperial Garden pavement in the Forbidden City |
 Hong Kong Ocean Park Ferris Wheel (2011) |
 Students essays to grade. 1986, Purdue University. |
 Petrified wood |
 Thistle, Indiana (1987) |
 One of the first contact sheets I ever made, Purdue University (1988) |
 An old road sign |
 I wouldn't buy another one of these (1991) |
 Small croppie, northern Wisconson (1995) |
 Home-grown plum, Indiana (1986) |
 Inverted sunset. Shelbyville, Indiana (c. 1986) |
 Laws of Evidence, South African Constitutional Court (2012) |
 Welch's grape juice. A former favorite. (1987) |
 Second chess clock |
 My hand at White Sands, NM (2001) |
 Indian inlaid marblework |
 Bowling awards (1986) |
 Cherry Jolly Ranchers (yum!) (1986) |
 Jar of stones I collected during an around-the-country drive in 1988 |
 Portrait of me done by Jane Doud, of Milwaukee, in 1965 |
 Column at National Independence Monument, Kuala Lumpur (2011) |
 Bottle rockets |
 Large Moth |
 Thermometer reading on a very cold day in January 1989 (-22F) |
 Very old prayer wheel, Nubra, India (2012) |
 Cherries, Shelbyville, India (1989) |
 Landour rock painting, Landour, India (2002) |
 Fat Man replica |
 First digital camera |
 Butterfly, Indiana (1988) |
 Current basketball |
 Young starling, Indiana (1985) |
 Catfish, Indiana (1990) |
 Wizard of Id books -- got me started on cartooning |
 Whiffleball. |
 Broken idols, Mumbai |
 Unidentified fish, Indiana (1990) |
 Fossilized bones at Dinosaur National Monument (2016) |
 A favorite summer toy |
 Door, Blue Mosque, Istanbul (2010) |
 Odd Indian coins |
 Granny smith apple -- a favorite variety |
 Buggy, Mauritius (2012) |
 Red Balinese flower (2008) |
 Lottery winner. $20! Bangor, Maine (1986) |
 Mohammad Geneological Chart, Srinagar, India (2012) |
 Paint brushes |
 Cardinal egg, Indiana (1987) |
 Squirrel, Indiana (1086) |
 Walleye, Three Lakes, Wisconsin (1989) |
 Berries, Indiana (1991) |
 A favorite album |
 Door knocker, Beijing (2009) |
 Exhibit at Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame (c. 1988) |
 Silver salmon, Seward, Alaska (1994) |
 Donations box at a Srinagar masjid, India (2012) |
 Nathan's Hot Dog, New York City (2010) |
 Rahil's Stroller, New York city (2006) |
 McPlasticHamburger |
 Bark of the ___ tree (Himachal Pradesh, India) (2008) |
 Wild flowers, Dharamsala (2008) |
 500 Ruble Note, Moscow (2007) |
 Monkey Forest statue, Bali (2013) |
 Sign warning of scalding water |
 Gorilla, Bronx Zoo, New York (2013) |
 Wedding Bridge, Moscow (2007) |
 A portion of the Taj Mahal (2007) |
 Bull statue at Five Rathas, Mammallapuram, India (2008) |
 Fistful of 1000 Rupee notes, New Delhi, India (2008) |
 Three-week-old sea turtle, Mauritius (2012) |
 Portion of a temple behind Anjanas Penance, Mammallapuram, India (2008) |
 Dragon fruit (2008) |
 Necklace orchid on Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo (2011) |
 My former boss makes the front page of the Amritsar newspaper (2008) |
 Jain Bird Hospital collection box, New Delhi (2008) |
 Ahmedabad Gandhi Mosaic, India (2010) |
 First decent cell phone |
 Second first digital camera |
 Rahil's finger puppet |
 Gorilla |
 Roadside rock carvings (Shey, Ladakh, India) |
 Doctor's Sign, New Delhi (2008) |
 Grasshopper, Dehradun, India |
 Ostrich, South Africa (2012) |
 Sign to Gandhi's Ahmedabad home (2010) |
 A Christmas stocking made by my son Rahil |
 Pangong Tso Sia (rose) blossom, Pangong Lake, India (2013) |
 Inlay, Jaipur Amber Fort, India (2013) |
 Tasty welcome drink, Komaneka Resort, Ubud, Bali |
 Steps at Sarnath, where the Buddha gave his first sermon. |
 Road Sign hole |
 South African Rand (2012) |
 An Old Currency Exchange Sign from Old Delhi. |
 Prayer flags |
 Unusual flowers, Dehradun, India |
 Hippo trash can head, New Delhi zoo |
 New Delhi autorickshaw meter |
 Cinnamon tree |
 Salt from the 10,000+ sq. mile Rann of Kutch |
 Easter eggs (2009) |
 King Hussein Club plaque |
 Balsa glider |
 Prambanan trolley |
 Dinosaur tracks Holyoke, Massachusetts |
 Gus, the Central Park polar bear (2009) |
 Chicken cage |
 Jellyfish exhibit at the Coney Island Aquarium |
 Large chess set, Interlaken, Switzerland |
 Mt. Pilatus (Switzerland) cogwheel train window handle |
 Macau drug store front window |
 "Non-Violence" knotted gun sculpture at the United Nation |
 Old bathysphere |
 Pinhead orchid |
 Rahil with poison ivy |
 Rahil's third birthday cake |
 Portion of North Gate, Sanchi Stupa (India) |
 Barracuda from Kochi fish market |
 Ceramic Dragon at Temple of Heaven, Beijing |
 Christmas decoration made by Rahil |
 Coconuts |
 Coca Cola, Beijing |
 Many small bags of cotton candy |
 The Great Wall! |
 Image on Kochi fishing boat, Kerala, India |
 Kunming, China arcade game |
 Large laughing Buddha |
 Stone Forest, Kunming, China |
 A tiny abacus |
 Beijing traffic mirror |
 Admission tickets to Yong He Gong Temple, Beijing |
 Hunderman welcome sign, Indo-Pakistani border |
 Gwalior Palace crystal staircase |
 Fresh coconut |
 Goan autorickshaw |
 Golden bamboo |
 Result of Rahil's (who is three) first "real" chess game |
 Peacock gate, Jaipur City Palace |
 Texas Hold 'Em 2 Blackberry World Series Champion. Too easy. |
 Elephant chow |
 100 RMB |
 My iMac -- at last! |
 Unidentified stone-embedded plank found outside homes in Capadoccia, Turkey |
 Windows at a Srinagar Masjid |
 Donkey |
 Large deer |
 Gulbaden Apple Juice |
 Ice Ball, Chang La Pass, Ladakh (17,586' ASL) |
 Kitten |
 Himalayan steamroller |
 Pangong Tso water |
 Yak head |
 What kind of tree is this? It was growing in Highland Park, NJ |
 Bird of Paradise |
 Tea leaves |
 Three-year-old sea turtle. |
 Petroglyph |
 Nehru Park bridge |
 Sour tangerine |
 Brass pegs at New Delhi's National Science Centre |
 My very own kaffir lime tree! |
 Rahil's first tennis shoe |
 Wet kite (Ahmedabad, 14 January 2011) |
 Pacman |
 Aaron Burr headstone |
 208B aircraft caravan |
 Bug carousel |
 An old Chevy |
 Cotton Candy |
 Hong Kong parking meter |
 New TV |
 Rahil's old toys |
 Door at Tikse Monastery, Ladakh, India |
 Godfather beer |
 Indus River sand, Ladakh, India |
 Stray myna |
 Sunderbans River Boat |
 Westminster Abbey gargoyle |
 London Eye |
 Iguanadon |
 Stuffed badger |
 Iron pyrite |
 Gneiss from Greenland -- 3,600,000,000 years old |
 Ancient carving at Gwalior Fort |
 Blenheim Palace train |
 Horseshoe |
 Four young frogs |
 Isle O' Dreams plaque |
 Chipmunk |
 Front door to the Three Lakes cottage |
 "Guest" embroidery at the Three Lakes cottage |
 Giant tortoise |
 Juice glass that brings back a lot of childhood memories |
 Largemouth bass from Plantinground Lake |
 T-Rex model at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford |
 Insect display at Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park |
 Conical cotton candy |
 Grandmother's mailbox, River Hills, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
 Ahilya Fort mailbox, Maheshwar, India |
 Vanilla pods |
 Inscribed copy of Rose Wilder Lane's "The Discovery of Freedom" |
 Balinese puppets |
 Velociraptor model |
 Middle Eastern Diet Pepsi can |
 Jaipur City Palace door |
 Pigeons at Gateway of India, Bombay |
 Thing Rahil collected at Humayan's Tomb on Christmas Day, 2011 |
 Hadrosaur egg |
 Bangkok public phone |
 Vanilla |
 Rahil |
 Inscription at National Independence Monument, Kuala Lumpur |
 Rahil's Kindergarten art project |
 Fire bucket |
 My trusty Nikon FA |
 Bougainvillea |
 Pataudi Palace dollhouse |
 Lodi Garden greenhouse Ford Foundation plaque, New Delhi |
 Map of Corbett Natl Park |
 Breath freshener, Uttar Pradesh, India |
 Sunbeam Rapier |
 Fossils along Zanskar River, northern India |
 Sign on the way to Khardung Pass, at 18,366' the hightest motorable pass in the world |
 Ladakhi hat |
 One of fifty different paper airplanes |
 Rajasthani puppets |
 14 c. stone carving |
 Wild goat skull |
 Back gifts for Rahils sixth birthday |
 Himalayan Bulbul nest and eggs, India |
 Donation box, Diskit Gompa, Nubra Valley |
 Lemon |
 Table Mountain, South Africa |
 Sundial |
 Entrance to South African Constitutional Court |
 Lights |
 Deer |
 Seven colored sands, Mauritius |
 Crab |
 Shwepps Ginger Ale |
 My Christmas stocking |
 Diet Pepsi can from Dubai |
 Large moth |
 Obama yard sign |
 Arrowhead |
 Fossilized turtle shell found by my brother |
 Burned area, Cochiti, New Mexico |
 Stone chariot, Hampi, India |
 Museum door, Hampi, India |
 Hampi, India relief sculptures |
 Banana plant |
 Nandi Bull, India |
 Sugar cane machine |
 Old India coins |
 Autorickshaw |
 Coracle (a type of Indian boat) |
 Millipede |
 Sunflower |
 Copy machine at the Mumbai registrar's office |
 Rhino statue |
 Diet Coke from Thailand |
 Winter 2012-2013 wedding invitations |
 Railcar pulley |
 Qutab Minar, India |
 Don't Spit sign |
 Distant langur |
 Flame of the Forest blossom |
 Papaya tree |
 Narmarda River, India Marble Rocks |
 Hampi Gopans |
 Cabinet at Gwalior Palace |
 Storage cabinets |
 Flower blossom |
 Silkworms |
 USS Santa Fe bell |
 Watch for falling tree sign |
 Bronx Zoo rhino |
 1950s pinball machine |
 Lizard |
 Tiger sign |
 A Fitzhugh Scott house |
 Frog |
 Large dragonfly |
 India Tube Mills machinery |
 Diet Coke can in Thai |
 Borobudur Lion, Java |
 Green Iguana |
 Semanyak Beach, Bali swim warning sign |
 Monkey Forest cremation guardian, Bali Oct 2013 |
 Nepentes ampullaria (a carnivorous plant) |
 Sunderbans rice stack |
 Fancy Indian bicycle |
 Khujaro, India nandi bull |
 Goat |
 Bronx Zoo carousel |
 Char Minar Hyderabad graffiti |
 Cannon |
 Stained glass |
 Elephant army resistent door |
 Prambanan Temple angel |
 Mount Merapi (a Javanese volcano) bunker door |
 Lotus |
 Small pinball machine |
 Young elephant |
 Orchha wildflowers |
 Cow |
 Ancient script (Saas Mandir, Gwalior fort) |
 Feet of large stone carving |
 Cabinet |
 Crystal staircase |
 Small bird |
 Nest |
 Horse |
 Garter snake |
 Dinosaur track |
 Shooting game |
 This Way Out sign |
 Arcade game |
 Welcome to Landour sign |
 Carosel |
 Ravina's childhood piggy bank |
 Preserved bats, Dambulla, Sri Lanka |
 Goat on leash |
 Frog, Wisconsin |
 Petra, Jordan pimpled rock |
 Dead Sea salt |
 Purported Oldest Known Statue |
 Dambulla cave temple door, Sri Lanka |
 Roman column after flooding |
 Amman, Jordan bakery |
 Ducklings |
 Jordanian ATM |
 Field mouse |
 Sea Glass Carousel, New York City |
 Books written by my uncle |
 Small toad |
 Whale Shark |
 Typical Indian electric junction box |
 Kargil Health Department vehicle |
 Walnuts |
 Taxi interior, Bombay |
 Spiders |
 Mussourie, India sign |
 Housewarming ceremony |
 Da Vinci drawing (not touched!) |
 Script at Saas Mandir, Gwalior |
 Cow |
 Orchha wildflowers |
 Bird's nest |
 1932 Dodge Brothers Matheran Rail Car |
 Bug at Asan Barrage, India |
 Rental car near Grand Tetons |
 Sandstone erosion |
 Roz Chast Exhibit |
 Buffalo statue at Great Salt Lake Antelope Island |
 Morman Temple, Salt Lake City |
 45th Parallel sign |
 Grand Prismatic spring, Wyoming |
 Trout, Wyoming |
 Moose sculpture, Wyoming |
 Rahil |
 Dam turbine |
 Missle Command video game |
 Art vending machine, Meow Wolf, Santa Fe |
 Plaza Blanca, NM |
 Allende meteorite (4.56 billion years old) |
 Sharp Stewart and Co. 1881 B777 Locomotive |
 Sihmal Tree seed, India |
 "Sticky Shit" gift received in mail(!) |
 Tugging puppies |
 Monkey Stick, Landour, India |
 Rahil's hand |
 Seashore shells, Goa, India |
 Cuttlefish, Goa, India |
 Mossy tree, Dehradun, India |
 Red-vented bulbul, India |
 Collection of GoodBye! editions |
 An old cannon, Mumbai, India |
 Elephant skull, Sri Lanka |
 Old tapioca box (front) |
 Old tapioca box (rear) |
 Touch-me-not, India |
 Guildhall, London Roman amphitheater display |
 Battle of Britain memorial |
 Orange I grew myself |
 Central Park bird sculpture |
 Colorful fruit |
 Moogli statue |
 Hermit crab |
 Gumball machine |
 1953 Mercedes |
 Red crowned crane |
 US Consulate, Hong Kong |
 My grandfather's Navy Cross |
 My grandfather's Purple Heart |
 Mk17 thermonuclear weapon replica |
 Organic salmon head |
 Sheep, Central Park Zoo |
 Pig, Central Park Zoo |
 Dew |
 Fasten Your Seat Belt sign, Kenya Airline |
 Audobon Birds of America folio |
 Rainey Gate, Bronx Zoo |
 Public Library, Princeton, NJ |
 "I told you I was sick" headstone, Princeton, NJ |
 Oreo Cookie aisle |
 Atlantis pinball machine, a childhood favorite |
 Rasberries |
 Indian village flour grinder |
 Tiger track |
 Wasp hive |
 Hailstones |
 Large beetle or roach |
 First pomegranite I grew |
 Unidentified claw |
 Giraffe skull |
 Unidentified skull |
 Karen Blixen's safe ('Out of Africa' author) |
 First lemon I grew |
 Peahen photo at exhibition |
 Rat snake skin |
 2018 midterm vote |