for Alan :-)

Hydrangea

Cow Corn

Layers

Hummingbird Moth

Just Yikes!

It’s Labor Day, and all I can think of is the people trying to survive in the Bahamas. 

Dorian really needs to start turning north today, or Florida is in big trouble.

Welcome September!

Garden Path as we leave August

Precious

It's Grandbaby Day!!

I'll post once we have news!

Atlantic Hurricane DORIAN seems headed here...

I wonder what these are called

Why am I thinking of Dr. Suess?

Carousel

OOPSY! I missed a day and more. Sorry about that!

Chomp!

Milkweed Caterpillar

Brilliance

Hydrangea Lace

Clouded Landscape

Rays

Front

Sweet Sunset

Yin and Yang

The Lilies are Prolific this Year!

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