Lobster Buoys

In keeping with the Maine lobster theme I seem to have going this week (though technically this one is actually the side of a New Hampshire boathouse)...

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Dinner anyone?

Just kidding. Actually this little guy, caught during our lobster tour in Kennebunkport, Maine, got thrown back a few minutes later.

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If the photo you're wishing for is something you've seen here on the blog which isn't in my etsy shop yet just let me know and I'll happily list it for you.

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Summer Stock Sunday - Harbor Seals!

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After years of going to places where seals should have been, I finally got my chance to see harbor seals in the wild on a rock just off Walker Point (famous as the site of George Bush Sr.'s summer house) in Kennebunkport, Maine. Only a few were actually swimming but what a sight they all were lounging on the rock, soaking up the summer sun. We were out on a lobster boat (a shtick for the tourists, but fun and pretty interesting too) and couldn't get close enough for a better photo without frightening them but still, seals! So cool.

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We got back last night and are still horrifically jetlagged (I slept for a grand total of about 45 minutes over the course of both flights and then came home and slept for 15 hours straight, at this rate I should be reacclimated by about October). Jay heads back to work tomorrow, I have a few projects that need to be dealt with, Itai's got rehearsals for some school ceremony tomorrow morning, I need to get Maya in for a visit to her new school since she missed the orientation, the air conditioning is broken and the tech is supposed to show up tomorrow morning (and holy crap it's hot in here) and there are a zillion other errands that need to get run and things that need to be dealt with, but we're home and school starts Wednesday morning so one way or another I WILL be around to visit everyone's blogs this week!

Happy end of August, just a few more weeks of Summer Stock to go.

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Heading home tomorrow

I can't believe an entire month has passed and it's time to pack up and go home already. We had a fabulous time here in New England. The weather was great, the company even better, though there are still so many things left undone. I got completely overwhelmed with visiting family and trips away this year (the second I walked in the door from Maine Jay announced that he'd finagled a night away for us and had booked us into a really nice B&B in the White Mountains for the next night - we just got back in time for dinner tonight and suddenly it's time to pack and go home. I'm also particularly sorry I couldn't manage to meet up with Maribeth this year, which is really unexcusable on my part (and totally unintentional) since she lives literally down the road from my parents, I'd hoped to do it this week but found myself in the mountains instead. MB, I totally owe you lunch next year! Honestly, I have no idea where the time went. I had this whole month in front of me and then poof, it disappeared!

Once I get home I should finally have time for some serious photoediting and blogging - and more importantly for getting around to all of your blogs and catching up with your lives as well.

For now though, it's off to pack. Sigh...

Summer Stock Sunday - Happiness is dancing with your daddy

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While you're reading this I'll be in or on my way back from a camping trip to the Maine coast. I hope Mr. Linkie behaves better this week than last, and that you're all enjoying these late summer days as much as we are. This has been a wonderful trip and a wonderful summer, I hate to see it winding down, though I'll have images to share for a long time to come, and Summer Stock won't be saying goodbye to summer for a few weeks yet.

Come share your summer photos and your summer memories and let's make the most of the rest of the summer!

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Summer Stock Sunday - Children of the Corn

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The service organization my mother belongs to has been getting together to pick fruits and vegetables that would otherwise go to waste from local farms and deliver them to local food pantries. Itai, Maya and my niece Rachel joined in for the last picking expedition - the corn was taller than they were! Heck, the corn was taller than I was, as I quickly discovered when I went into the cornfield to find two very overtired little girls and rescue them bring them back home while my mom and Itai continued picking and then went on to deliver the goods. (Funny, they both perked up as soon as they hit the air-conditioned car...)

Not only does this particular farm grow some of the sweetest corn around, it was also full of very photogenic old barns, outbuilding, and even fields of flowers - I could have shot there for hours if I didn't have two extraordinarily hot and grumpy very cute little girls to bring home.

We're still having a great time in New Hampshire (and still not getting much computer time) - Jay arrived a few days ago (finally!) and his sister and her family arrived this morning. The more the merrier, it's what summer's all about up here in the bloomin' woods :).

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Yay for Daddy!

Daddy arrived from Israel today, and there was much rejoicing.

I drove down to Boston to pick him up (about a two hour drive) via a very spendy side-trip to Target (hurray for Target, we pink puffy heart Target - a chance to stop at Target was very nearly worth the four-plus hours I spent in the car today). We hadn't even pulled all the way into the garage before the children came tumbling out of the house yelling and screaming (and nearly dashing headlong into the still moving car, good thing mommy's reflexes weren't completely fried from the drive).

Friday we're joined by Jay's sister and her family for a long weekend, then next week it's over to the Maine coast for camping with my parents and my sister's family. Oh, and tomorrow night the circus is coming to town - the kids are beside themselves with excitement, we don't get circuses very often.

With all this going on computer time will probably continue to be in short supply but I'm reading and very much appreciating all your comments and looking forward to catching up with you all very soon!

Summer Stock - The Galloping Banana

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Ask my kids what they love best about New Hampshire and they're very likely to say tubing, riding what Maya named last year "The Galloping Banana". (The first time she rode it she yelled in my ear that it was like riding a galloping banana and well, the name just stuck.)


Itai is Mr. Speed - all he wants is faster, bumpier, wilder - all the time.

Maya was very tentative her first ride but by the second time, just a few minutes later, she was well into the swing of things signalling "Faster Grandpa, faster!"

Note how well they're rockin' the old skool life jackets - each year we say we're going to get some new ones but it never seems to happen and in the meantime they're not complaining.

As you can see from both the photos and the scarcity of posting these past days we're having a fantastic time here in New Hampshire, most of it outside, far away from computer screens, photo editing software, and desks.

How's your summer going?

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Gone sailin'

Not really, I haven't actually been sailing in years but it seemed a fitting title for this shot of what must have been some kind of regatta, since none of us remember ever seeing so many sailboats on the lake at once - there must have been dozens of them out there.

We're all having a great time - my sister and her kids have been here all week, it's great getting the chance to really spend time with them, the older kids (my two and my niece) are in camp half-days and we're spending most afternoons either down at the beach or out on the water. Itai is learning how to kayak and Maya rode the tube all by herself - they're growing up right before my very eyes. They're also eating like they've got a tapeworm, I think I'll wait another week or two before buying them long pants for the coming year!

Whoops, I just realized how late it is. Better cut this short, the campers have a field trip to the town beach tomorrow and I've got to get up early and get them organized for it. (Yes, I should have done it tonight but I was too darn tired. Tomorrow will be fine, as long as I get off the computer already and get to bed!)

More later, hope you're all having a great week!
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