Mark and Alice

Alice and Mark, Mark and Alice.  One of our favorite East Coast kite couples. They fly single lines, stunt kites, tiny kites; Mark buggies and flies in Rok battles. Alice is half of the master's pair team Ms. Matched and they fly on teams (3-person team W.A.T.T. and the quad-team The Bag Ladies). They are kite collectors, kite designers and makers, kite-making teachers, volunteers, organizers. If it has to do with kites, Mark and Alice are enthusiastic. Alice is quick and proud to say her dad is a kiter. Not something many of us can say. Alice also builds kites with her nephew and has entered the finished kites into kite building competitions with him. We first met Alice and Mark on a trip to Berck, France and have enjoyed our friendship ever since. Mark was Bob's very-early-morning-down-on-the-beach kite buddy. One of my favorite memories of that trip were the bakery forays Alice and I made into town each day. French pastries for lunch on a French beach at an International Kite event. Very hard to beat that! Something I really like about Mark and Alice: they always makes the line laundry or kite when they ask for our patterns and/or instructions. And always with their own and different twist. Note the chain line laundry picture: the last link is broken. The Spiky balls are much bigger than mine. Alice's Wadsworth Rotating boxes are terrific with their Pac Man theme... and her cat kite has a very interesting personality. Hmmm. Can't find that picture. I love Mark's French Military kite. It is what I call a happy kite. It makes you smile when you see it. Click on the pictures to see the large images.  Mark's Kite Site  web page can be found at:  http://mysite.verizon.net/vzep4wbd/index.html  Go visit; you will enjoy it!

	3 kites from their arch, including the self portraits!