Sunday, January 4, 2015

visits & travels, cider donuts & urchin sands - fall to winter

 A mishmash of photos taken over the last three months, starting with a photo taken this past week over the winter break, during our visit with Morgan's mom in southern California.
 An evening spent snorkeling at home.
 Halloween night with two cats and a basketfull of homemade cider donuts.
 Playing music as a gang with our friends Tii & Deb
 Milkweed relative
 Deb, Lena, and Hazel at Spalding Conservancy
 Tii and Morgan at Spalding Conservancy
 Niagara Falls in early November
A trip to Niagara Falls with family after seeing the retrospective show of Paul's grandfather's art work at the Albright-Knox in Buffalo in early November.
 Sometimes pilgrims have big feelings
 Susquehanna river around Thanksgiving
 Morgan birding on the banks of the Susquehanna
 Along the river
 Christmas decorations at home
 Making challah
 Loose tooth season
 One of four rain barrels that we had installed this fall with a grant that Morgan wrote last summer. These four will all fill and overflow in a 1" rainstorm which is a bit mind boggling. The excess water than gets shunted down to a raingarden with native plants also created with grant funds.
 Permeable pavers for our front walk
 Permeable pavers in the backyard leading to the raingarden.
 Late fall raingarden with dormant plants
 Sandbox that Morgan built late this fall using logs we harvested from a neighbor following an ice storm last winter.
 Holidays in Michigan with Paul's sister, the bowling champion!
 Bowling with the dudes.
 Paul's dad, Alan.
 Hazel, Lena, and Izze.
 Paul and his mom and sister.
 Ann Arbor lichens.
 A clay frog complete with lily pad and fly on the tongue.
 Along the shores of the Pacific near L.A.

 Tide pool hopping



 Urchin sands
 Pholad bivalves







Marine mammal care center in San Pedro, CA