Waiting for Costco to open
Windy birthday walk with a Rainier view
Selfie with a slug
Saxophonists in the wild!
Confident hair toss
Setting off to sail for the first time in 2025. Winds were steady at 10 knots, gusting to 20! She had a ball!!
Selfie before a swimming lesson
Start of the lesson
We ran off without the children to find snow in the mountains
Gobs of snow!
Mounds of it!
The hiking was excellent
Ambient noise was muffled
Animal tracks were everywhere
And how would one even describe this kind of icicle???
Gotta love Longmire!
Family selfie at a woodsy Titlow overlook
Shiny
Weekend music practice often looks like this (collaborative)
And cooperative
Big guy at the dentist
Annie worked hard to attract this friend to her feeder
Spooky
Landry has been taking swimming lessons
Catching snow
Goofball
I came outside to go to work but found that I could not leave!
The trombone in its case has been nicknamed “Breadstick”
Reading ALL the dragon books
Reading some of the dragon books
Annie visited Biosphere 2 in Tucson
Kitties’ favorite part of the day
Supey came to the Y to watch Landry swim!
Collector
Snake Lake is frozen
Hazel participated in the high school solo-ensemble music festival this year!
She prepared a saxophone solo and was accompanied by a friend on piano
Here was her excellent sax-playing adjudicator during the mini lesson
Watch the entire performance here: [[Meadowland video]]
I realized after my holiday post that I’d left out a lot of December. Time to catch up!
We spent a day on Mount Rainier around the winter solstice
There was quite a bit of playful posing
And cooperative car-riding children
Badminton in the yard in December — so PNW
December was incredibly musical!
Hazel had two concerts, and friends variously came to watch
Plus we brought Landry and two pals to Tuba Christmas Tacoma. So cool!
So stately
It’s still hard to make a bed with a cat in it
Brita and I rang in December in Toronto!
That’s mighty Lake Ontario back there
Misty, frozen morning at the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Bird enthusiasm
Landry conquered fifth grade swimming!!! We’re so proud of him
Christmastime 2024 family selfie! Taken in NH
Christmas morning
Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel
Car hijinks & booster seat phones
Instrument sculpture
Testing saxophones in the warehouse’s whisper room
Turkeys by the dozen in Jamaica Plain
Camp friends by the dozen as well!
Big kids playing with little friends
Hanukkah with Brita’s menorah
Unseasonably warm at Habitat in Belmont
Sunset on the Charles River. Photo credit to Laura!
A visit with the Hartnetts in Dover. Photo credit to Patrick!
Dreams do come true! Standing ON Silver Lake
New woods explorer
Making use of our travel menorah at Pine Point
We visited Grammy and Grampy and their new stone
Gorgeous, reflective polar wade to start 2025
Pensive puzzling on the final night of Hanukkah
Winter walk at The Nature Conservancy property in Madison
Look who we found at Tin Mountain! Photo credit to Heather
We borrowed snowshoes from the Tin Mountain collection
Home sweet home with the lonely kitty babies
We rode the carousel on opening night at Zoolights! (Friday)
Thanks to an invitation by Grandma and Grandpa
Steadfast cocoa holders and carousel witnesses
NW Trek family selfie (Saturday)
On Sunday we installed our Christmas Tree!
These two played holiday Mad-Libs
Choo-choo
Cute as a button (Every day)
Pumpkin Loaf-in-Chief (Always)
Delighted by the many cawing crows
Family portrait outtake on the brand new Titlow footbridge (could be titled “bossy momma strikes again”)
Today – Hazel met Landry at the school bus
10/29 – Orange sat squarely on Landry’s legs (awww)
10/27 – Food pickup helpers
10/25 – Pretty windows
10/23 – Wife date at the Museum of Flight
10/22 – First jazz band concert at the junior high
10/20 – Kitty snuggles
10/19 – Soccer game victory
10/15 – Hazel’s braces came off
10/12 and 10/13 – Fall home regatta
10/4 – Hazel gave a speech at a youth sailing fundraiser