If you want the story of the orange shoes try my my sister's blog. She tells that story much better. This was a good weekend with a quick audio-visual setup for Mark's presentation, a good LVCS alumni dinner that followed the usual pattern, talking by candlelight with wine on the porch into the late evening, breakfast at Dina's Sunday morning, and driving back to Oberlin with a kayaking stop on the Rocky River.
You can really tell when we are on our summer schedule when we start kayaking in the middle of the week. Back to Findley Lake late afternoon until just before sunset. Lots of herons, ducks, giant carp (Ed - check the photo), and a "water moccasin" that a fisherman near the dock loudly identified and chased away with a stick (it was a harmless water snake but I didn't want to argue). The carp wallow in the shallows until you get almost on top of them with the boat and then they explode away skimming the surface and splashing water everywhere. Cool. Check my "Kayaking Across America" blog for a couple more photos.
Getting back into our summer routine. Perfect weather today - high 60's, sunny with a few clouds. Nicki worked outside in the yard while I did some tech work at school. But late in the afternoon we did some kayaking on Findley Lake. Photos of our time on the lake can be found at my "Kayaking Across America" blog (link to the right). The Great Blue Herons are back!
Here's out live entertainment as we eat breakfast - or the squirrel's entertainment as he/she eats breakfast - or Cricket's entertainment as she waits for us to finish our breakfast so she can have our leftovers. I think everyone is a winner in this situation (as long as we have enough peanuts in the feeder).
Here's my 6th graders on the last day of the 2005-2006 school year. This is how we partied - trading addresses, reading papers we did a long time ago in 4th grade, eating popsicles, and relaxing. Not a bad year and we're ready for a summer.
Laura and Mike gifted Nicki with this Edible Arrangement which I picked up on the west side of Cleveland. It was a little hard to fit into the refrigerator. But we should have fun eating it soon.
I’m practicing creeping up on the herons with the hopes of catching one in flight and this one was a good catch. Especially note the egret in the background. Egrets are apparently more skittish than herons. The perfect picture would have caught a few geese in the frame. They were there - just hard to line up. Time to take the better camera. Several other kayaks have appeared at Findley. I think the word is out.
Every year the crab-apple trees in Norma and Hans' yard bloom a bright white around the curve of their yard. The white almost hurts your eyes.
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