Scenes from a weekend

Papa Bird has finally joined in the work. We noticed the new activity, first thing this morning and both Mama Bird and Papa Bird have been fussing with their chicks all day long. I want to know what happened to the eggshells, and Ed is surprised that they are so ugly!


Happy Father's Day hike


A day of fabulous weather ended with an equally fabulous rainbow, sunset and thunderstorm. The storm moved in from the south as the sun set, but the clouds never covered the western horizon, so the rainbow lasted about 45 minutes to an hour. After the rainbow faded, the sky remained a solid orange color for while. Most remarkable was that the color of the cloud cover changed significantly from one side of the rainbow to the other. You can sort of see that in this picture, but as is usually the case with Nature, the picture doesn't do it justice.


Kid's Night is always interesting. We are glad to be the sort of parents to include a mud pit in the planning of the backyard, but when the kids started washing their hair with it, we started thinking about how to put a Sorry It's Closed sign on the mud pit for large groups of kids.


Okay, this is from last weekend. We had plenty of shelter under a big pine tree for this downpour which came out of nowhere. We had been sunning ourselves on that bench not 5 minutes before. It was a much better view than we usually get from our living room window.


These ducks are unfazed.