Thursday, August 20, 2015

August adventures in the midwest

 Earlier this month we traveled to Chicago to pick up many boxes of fossils, and made some wonderful stops en route and while there. Here Lena and Hazel run through Tappan Square on the Oberlin campus one night.
 Visiting with Paul's mom and dad in Ann Arbor.
 Coneflowers!
 Adventures at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago.
 Hazel at the museum, astride her steed with baby in tow.
 Our friend Elizabeth and her daughter reading with us at the museum.
 Garfield Conservatory's fern room - one of the most amazing places!
 Lena, fern enthusiast.




 Lena, Hazel, and Isla in front of Garfield Conservatory.
 Adventures in the playground in Hyde Park near the uchicago campus where we use to go with Lena when she was itsy.
 Breakfast at the Point, the park near our old apartment.
 Lake Michigan
 Lena and Hazel in front of the apartment where Lena spent her first two years.

 Mural in Hyde Park, Chicago.
 Fossil collecting in the creek at our friends' house in southern Ohio on our way home.


Thursday, August 13, 2015

puffins, granite, blueberries: july adventures in maine

 Days in Maine this past July starting with some photos we took offshore Boothbay Harbor on a visit to Egg Island to see the puffins nesting.

 Puffin!



 Visiting with our friends Tii & Deb near Brooklin, Maine.

Lena and Hazel take to the high seas (except that they're tethered to shore)

 Maine sediments chock full of barnacles




 discarded urchin bodies in the island leaf litter - gull food?
 granite!
 blueberries!
 tidepools!

 summer blossoms
 goofing!
 nerding!
photo of a baby mussel photographed through the eye piece of Tii's micrscope. Lighter colored material on the top is the larval shell of this little buddy.