WHIDBEY ISLAND: First Sketch, by Alan

🎉 Happy Birthday (yesterday), Bill!! 🎁

Rugosa Rose

Rose in the Rain

LOL!

Eleventh Anniversary of 8/8/8

Wow! It has already been a year since I made a painting of Daughter's house 

for the 10th Anniversary of her buying her House of Dreams.  

I was painting it this week a year ago, completed it on the 21st, and gave it to her on the 26th.

The House...

The Painting...

Mansard Roof across the street from the Bunker Hill Monument

You can buy a one bedroom condo in this building for about a million dollars! 

I kid you not:  https://www.nytimes.com/real-estate/usa/ma/boston/charlestown/homes-for-sale/4-monument-square/1994-1102-1-72500681#slideshow/photos/2

Early American Architecture

Cobblestone Street in Charlestown, MA

St. Mary's in Charlestown, MA circa 1887

Can you tell I recently made a visit to Charlestown?

 My Great Great Grandparents were married in the original St. Mary's, a humble church that burned.  

This is the church that replaced it.  They were some of the original members of this congregation. 

 It was the first Roman Catholic church built in Boston after the Cathedral downtown.

The Bunker Hill Monument, Charlestown, Massachusetts

My Great Great Grandparents lived and died in Charlestown.  

Family legend has it that Great Great Grandfather Patrick set the original bars 

in upper windows of the Bunker Hill Monument. 

I took this photo one week ago, at our Great Nephew's birthday party, 
which was held beside the Monument...a common practice of town residents.

Mother and Son (Fresian Horses)

August Begins! One Week Old Foal

There goes July

WOW!!

We Just Learned Baby Birds Communicate 

With Each Other From Inside Unhatched Eggs

Yellow-legged gull eggs. (Duarte Frade/iN                        ~ Yellow-legged Gull eggs by Duarte Frade/iNaturalist, CC-BY

https://www.sciencealert.com/baby-birds-can-communicate-with-each-other-from-inside-their-unhatched-eggs?fbclid=IwAR1bo3HVYQ-s2olGfUnvyX-lzxXoSnYQM-NRMlZV6b1V8ORrRzTy8qkapbk

READ!

PhD*Son is one of the 70 who qualified to do this!

They're going to run up Vermont's highest mountain, then run down it. Should be warming through the 70's to about mid 80's, with thunderstorms arriving in the afternoon. However, the race is run 6:30am to 1:30pm, so they should be okay.  Well, except for those places in the course where to fall could mean serious injury or death.  Yeah, moms just love when their kids do things like this. Ha!

http://www.nativeendurance.com/mansfielddoubleup.html

Cardinal chick at my window: he fluttered and LOOKED at his reflection and, well, I think he misses his siblings.

Then he did the same at my car window!!

Q: What's wrong with this picture?

      A:  Nothing.  There's something wrong with the pResident, who is clearly in the wrong country.

BBC: doctored presidential seal leads to firing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49116539

Man behind fake presidential seal is former Republican who opposes Trump

https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/administration/454840-man-behind-fake-presidential-seal-is-former-republican-who-is-anti%3famp

Flowers by the Side of the Road

It's Mueller Time!

Low Clouds

Thoughts?

It's National Ice Cream Day!

50 Years Ago Today!

Hallo There!

Flower Box

Grand Fairy House

A Good Day

Schooner

The Friend Ship

Lake Champlain

https://www.whistlingman.com

Juniper Island, Lake Champlain, with the Adirondacks behind

Whimbrel and Whimbrel's nest with chick and egg: ANWR

Photos from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, by PhD*Son

Read all about it here:  http://shorebirdscience.org

The July 8th entry was written by PhD*Son, who also took the uncredited photos.

Mountain Laurel

Poppy

Peony

Summer Flowers

Brown Thrasher

Newly Minted Downy Woodpecker!