Robin Redbreast

 

Jonquil

 

Compass Rose

 

After we gave the Lifetime Achievement Award Trophy to the person who had run the Sailing School for 35 of its 42 years, I painted over the Compass Rose, which I first painted on the Sailing School porch in 2015.  I painted over it with the gray deck paint exactly so that the pirate who stole the lease to the land could not have any  benefit of it.  But photos remain...!

Original: 

Annnnnd, that's a wrap...

🦋🌷🦋 IT'S MAY!! 🌷🦋🌷

The Maypole (click) 
What does it mean and what does it signify?

The Last Day of the Sailing Club...

                             

... We'll be giving the person who has run it all for 35+ years

a big Lifetime Achievement Award Loving Cup Trophy! 🏆

The International Sailing School closes this weekend

 Folks are gathering for a work weekend
to close the place down forever
... and today is Wil's birthday.

We bought the boat! (I love the overhang!!)

 

Double Peach Daffodil

 

Elder*Grandson is 10 today!

Gramie & Grandad got him a telescope.
(Big hit!😁)

 

Daffodils!

 

From Liane*in*VT (whose brother in law is an actual rocket scientist)

So, it turns out, Musk overruled his engineers and did not have flame diverters installed in the launch pad. This is what happened to the launch pad.

Some of the speculation among those who do this kind of thing is that debris from the destruction of the launch pad damaged the 8 engines that were visibly not functioning immediately after launch.

Expensive and reckless decision, if that turns out to be the cause.

Periwinkles

 

EARTH DAY: Goldfinch changing to Summer plumage

 

Everybody Sing...🤣

 

Just keeping FOX in the news cycle...

 

Saturday, this fox sauntered through Youngest's yard in broad daylight...right by where the grands play, and totally ignored their chicken coop and chickens.

The only sort of FOX worth watching

Mind you, this one is licking its chops because it saw Spinnaker on the (screened) back porch!

Sunlight on the Mountain

 

There be Pirates here!

 

Steeples

 

How the Candlemas Candles turned into Easter Candles...

 

Buds on the Trees

 

Museum in Kennebunk, Maine ... showcases schoolchildren's art

 

🌷Tulips🌷

 

Crocuses in Glory!

 

Perennial Pansy!?!

Pansies have always been annuals in NW Vermont.  However!
  Amazingly, this one grew back and flowered a week ago!

 

🌷🌼🌷🌸 HAPPY EASTER~! 🌸🌷🌼🌷

 

Wild Crocuses

 

Sun Setting

 

Mount Mansfield (looking east)

 
(The sky was not smoky, the car window was dirty.)

Sun over Lake Champlain (looking west to NY State)

It's Arraignment Day...!

Thanks to Alan for the cartoon!

"Not braggadocious."
"He looks like a defendant."
~ various pundits

Baby Picture!

 

                           

                             

One of the best things about cleaning out a closet is coming across something unexpected.  Recently, I found a camera with a Sandisk card in it containing 4 photos from mid-December of 2012, including this photo of Spinnaker and Mizzen at about age 8 months!  The other photos revealed that they were looking up into the Birch trees at an apparently rather exciting Gray Squirrel.  This week they turn 11 years old...!
              

Spinnaker, Hanging Out With Wil

 

Retired one year ago today!

Welcome, April! (No Foolin'!)

 

Good-Bye March!

There was 3 feet of snow in front of the porch (where it was piled from shoveling
snow off the bricks), but it's time for bulbs to emerge,
so I shoveled a lot of it off. Upper forties and rain should lessen the rest. 

 

House Finch, male

🌟BREAKING NEWS!🌟 

Manhattan Grand Jury has voted to indict DT!

 

Pair of Doves

 

When you can't find your iPhone, look under the cat...

 

(Too bad it was set on "silent.")

Plattsburgh NY

 

Rail Station, Plattsburgh NY