Familly Flowers

It is a fine afternoon here in southwest Florida.  Anne is out playing recorder with other players she found in the neighborhood.  Mom and Dad are napping.  Outside are brilliant sunshine and a strong wind.  The temperature is 60 degrees F.  A “reinforcing” front passed through this morning as Anne and I traipsed about Sanibel Island.  At dawn the sky was clear though a shimmer of orange played out around the rising sun.  At eight a.m.

After one finds some six hundred kinds of birds in the continental United States and Canada, seeing another usually entails some kind of adventure.  On the morning of January 1, 2009, Anne and Chuck found a barnacle goose on the millpond on the south branch of the Raritan River in Califon, New Jersey.  In recent decades one or more birds of this species, probably from Greenland, have appeared somewhere in eastern North America during the late fall of the year.  Barnacle geese typically migrate east and south across the British Isles to reach wintering grounds in southern Europe and north

The holiday season has ended and we will be off to Florida tomorrow if the possible ice storm leaves us alone.  We have returned from Princeton where we celebrated the holiday with Mom & Dad and Laurie Strehl.  We arrived New Year's Eve after dropping our children off at the Princeton Junction train station.  They preferred to spend the evening with friends in the Big Apple.  We had enjoyed their company from Christmas Eve.  Chuck and Elley built a new base for her snake cage and all enjoyed a wintery South Mountain.  

We have not posted for some time, what being “at home” and all since mid-October.  Still we have not been idle, and now planning a departure by the beginning of next month, I felt it was time to provide an update to our friends and family who review this site from time to time.