alligators, pawpaws, family visits - summer into fall.

 some photos of our august through early october rambles. Hazel reading with her great grandmother Isabelle.

 Lena and her grandmother Gillian drawing together

 a hornworm on a pepper plant on our back deck. discovering this felt like we'd been living with a moose in our living room. very big!

 Paul's grandmother Isabelle during a visit in August.

 Paul's dad Alan in August.

 Celebrating Morgan's birthday with a plant-encrusted cake and family

 trouble for our little hornworm (cocoons made by parasitic wasps) - fascinating and a tad bit horrific

 first day of school

 the ghosts of scallops past at the florida museum of natural history during a visit Paul took there in late august

 payne's prairie, micanopy, fl

 payne's prairie, micanopy, fl

 payne's prairie, micanopy, fl

 payne's prairie, micanopy, fl

 bats filling the august sky on the university of florida campus

 hazel and riley in late august. our big orange man died in september. he was real sweetheart and we miss him alot

 parasitic wasps hatching

 wildflower garden at hawk mountain

 hazel drawing plants with morgan

 botanical illustrations with kiddos

 celebrating lena's birthday in early september

 adventures at spalding conservancy near our house - a few minutes after this was taken hazel was almost mowed down by not one but two very large bucks. yikes

 lena's homemade pinata at her birthday party

 lena's homemade pinata at her birthday party

 rambles in the test valley in southern england one afternoon after a workshop paul participated in in early september

 american gothic at lena's birthday party complete with pinata and wacking broom

 rambles in the test valley in southern england one afternoon after a workshop in early september

 part way through restaining the deck at our house

 our garage after a major overhaul of the front facade just in the nick of time (i.e., before it came crashing down!)

 morgan received a grant from to implement some really cool stormwater management practices at our house. here is the early stages of the installation of the rain garden by our garage

 morgan's native plants in the front yard

 Plants going into the raingarden

 mid-september found us in calvert county, md for a weekend fieldtri

 plants going into the raingarden

 mid-september found us in calvert county, md for a weekend fieldtrip

 paw paws, calvert co., md

 chesapeake bay, calvert co., md

ten million year old shell beds exposed along the western shores of the chesapeake bay

 miocene sediments, calvert co., md

 experiments with origami

 view of the susquehanna river from the pinnacle, lancaster co.

 the pinnacle, lancaster co

 creatures in the woods

 susquehannock state park

 lena rambling through the woods with her beloved dog

 fall fungi

 not sure what this is (other than very cool!)

 crazy birders