Day 430

This evening, we were surprised by a tree frog clinging to one of our living room windows. It stayed for about an hour, but eventually climbed up the window and disappeared. Tree frogs are common here, and part of the nightly Summer symphony. They are rarely bothersome. The 1st photo is about twice the size of the actual frog. The 2nd photo includes my hand, for scale of the frog's size.

Day 425

This afternoon, we headed to Hampton, VA to eat seafood. Afterwards, we went to the near by Buckroe Beach, to let our daughter play in the sand. There were seagulls perched on the boardwalk lights and power lines.

Day 418

While we were traveling from Philadelphia, PA to Richmond, VA, the clouds were beautiful and fluffy. I took photos of these amazing clouds while riding in the car. Some of them come out as a complete surprise, as photographing while not looking at my view finder (camera pointed up at the sky and sun) and in a moving car is difficult.

Day 417

Today, John and I went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art while the Scalin family headed to a different museum and the Eastern State Penitentiary. On the way to our destination, we came across a small butterfly garden. There were two wrens being noisy. After observing them, I realized it was a mother bird feeding a baby bird bread. Behind them were tall lilies and even taller sky scrapers.

Also in the garden were a few beautiful pigeons. The photograph doesn't capture the irridecent purple and teal of their wings.

Later, before we headed to dinner with the Scalin family, rain started pouring down. This is our hotel window.

The rain had stopped by the time we returned back to our hotel room. The clouds were breaking up, which allowed the full moon to shine through.

Day 415

Yesterday, we went to our friends' house for a monthly cook out. While there, we found a baby praying mantis. Our friends have several hens. These are two of the feathered ladies.

Day 407

Today, we saw a wild rabbit in our back yard. I love it's amazing eyebrows and overall adorableness. I took a short video of the rabbit, and a squirrel. I don't normally film things and I have no clue how to edit videos, so be thankful it's short.

Day 397

Despite the snow the other day, we've had a mild Winter, which means the flowers bloomed early. We've also had more birds around, which is always nice.

Some type of rose, or the larger form of Camilla

Vinca vine

Robin

Daffodil

Day 396

Today, we woke to snow. We had large chunky snowflakes for about an hour. School closed. The snow was all melted by 10am. Silliness.

Day 384

Today, I sat down on my couch, and noticed my squirrel neighbor was perched in the crape myrtle, eating a nut.

Day 383

Today, there was a hawk hunting squirrels. While it was resting on a tree branch, I took a few photos. This was the best photo.

Day 380

Today, my squirrel neighbor (her nest is above her in the tree) came to hang out for a few minutes. She seemed nervous and was shaking her tail swiftly. She's not threatened by me, so I will assume there was a cat or hawk in the area.

Day 340

There have been a lot of nuts falling from the trees. They are scattered over the ground, much to the delight of the squirrels and chipmunks.

Day 332

We started out the morning in Philadelphia. We went to the Magic Gardens to see the mosaic sculptures.

Later, we went to New Hope, PA to see the unusual shops they had there. There was a lot of beautiful scenery in this unusual town.

Day 330

Today, my husband drove our daughter and me to Philadelphia, PA for the weekend. After checking in early and a nap, we walked around the city. We eventually took a trip across the river to Camden, NJ. They have a great aquarium there. However, you won't see any photos of aquarium creatures, because that would be cheating.

Along our walk, we went to Rittenhouse square. We watched the pigeons walk around and a guy balance things on his chin.

We stopped in another park along the way. There were many of these little birds on the ground, eating.

While walking, John choose the aquarium as our destination and found out we could take a ferry from Philly to the aquarium in Camden. The aquarium is along the water, so the ferry ride is straight across from Penn's Landing.

Along the bridge to Penn's landing, there are beautiful flowers.

The bridge goes over the interstate.

Penn's Landing holds concerts during the summer. This area had two pergolas. Resting on top of them, were many pigeons.

After the aquarium, I spotted this monarch butterfly flying from flower to flower.