Where Globe-Trotting meets Beach-Combing
There has been the slightest of shifts. Instead of blazing hot, high humidity, we’ve had more than a week with temperate mornings, amazing breezy evenings, and days just right for a long, shady walk in the botanical gardens. Sara Michelle and I walked for miles through the Enchanted Forrest, the Potager Garden, the formal grounds—so…
Chris successfully earned his Officer of the Deck letter, which means he can drive the boat. Congratulations on your newest hat, Chris! You did it!
We live near the Chesapeake. I eat crab cakes every chance I get. So when Marci asked if I was free Saturday for a neighborhood crab…boil? bake? dinner! I said YES! She and Justin gave excellent crab-cracking tutorials, and we all put on our big kid pants and knocked out the completely gross guts and…
This was ok. The cool, rainy weather made the special zoo event feel fresh and exciting. But the hoards of people pushing between Isaac and me and bumping Eloise in the stroller, just to load up their plates with cereal and orange juice, was tiresome. Also there wasn’t enough caffeine. Highlights include meeting up with…
A year and a half ago we tromped around the decommissioned USS Alabama in Alabama. I thought of this on Friday morning as our Nauticus museum exploration led us out to the deck of the Wisconsin. That mid-January daytrip was like a break of sunshine. Chris, Isaac and I were coming off a hard year…
“When I get back, let’s go canoeing! I can’t wait to go canoeing! Want to go canoeing?” We were so excited to get back out on the water. Today was breezy and cooler than it had been, but Eloise was tired and hot in her life vest and just having none of it. If this…
Free outdoor Shakespeare and/or musicals is such a staple of summertime. And hearing the botanical gardens had such a program is one of the reasons I got a membership. So we went. Setting sun rays slanted through the trees into the smooth, grassy Renaissance Court. A reflection pond spread out in glassy stillness. Bugs…
