Green Monstah

Our friends Julie and Rich scored some tickets on the Green Monster on Monday night and brought Chris and me along. Even though the Sox looked awful, we got drenched and the game was shortened by rain, and there was an obnoxious Yankees fan in front of me who I REALLY wanted to punch, we had a blast! I loved it up there.

Hydrangea

I love hydrangeas, yet another plant I should have in my yard but don't. I stopped in to a cemetery to get a photo of this one.

Pemaquid Point Lighthouse

On Labor Day Chris and I visited and went up inside the Pemaquid Point lighthouse. It was my first time up inside a lighthouse. I've got some more photos, but for now I thought I'd show one that isn't your typical lighthouse shot.

Update on Cam: we ended up not taking him in to get his butt checked because he was feeling better today, so it seems like he just bruised it pretty good.

Football

These are from last Saturday. Cam took a big hit in Friday night's game and injured his tailbone. We're going to get it looked at in the morning and are hoping it's not broken.

Sunrise

When I got up the other morning the sky looked cool and the world had a pretty pink tinge.Another one of #5. Her team suffered their first loss of the season on Thursday.

It IS nifty

Over on the 2Peas photography message board that I frequent, there are lots and lots of people using a Knifty Knitter to make hats and other newborn props. Since I know how to knit the traditional way, I mostly ignored all those posts about the Knifty Knitter. But the other day I was in the craft store and decided to buy the baby hat-sized loom and see how I liked it. It really IS nifty!

Baby hats are a great way to use up partial skeins of yarn (okay, I actually bought the blue/purple/green yarn seen below because "ooh, pretty!")
I made these four in a day while sitting at the computer editing photos.
I've completed two more since I took these photos. Since there are two more Woodford babies due in 2010, I'm looking forward to plopping these on their heads.

Beer Bottle Vase

Happy Fall

#5

Time for some Delaney soccer photos. Her team is 4-0 so far!

Kasper

I don't know how I ended up without a picture of Kasper with our pooper scooper in his hand, considering it was the best toy we had, in his opinion. He also enjoyed his trip to the dump with Uncle Chris very much. And my spaghetti. We're looking forward to the Virginia Woodfords coming back to Maine for good in a couple of weeks.

Maine Black Bear

I'm working on getting a photo of Kasper up for tomorrow, but in the meantime here's a bear.
Darn that harsh midday sun, but you try getting a bear to move into the shade.

Emmett

The divine Mr. Emmett, enjoying his peanut butter sandwich:

I miss summer

Usually I really look forward to fall, but this year I'm having a hard time letting go of summer.

I like turtles

Of course posting this photo reminds me of one of my favorite You Tubes:

Meow

A couple of more shots from the Maine Wildlife Park.

Without anything to show scale, this could almost be any kitty in a wire carrier, couldn't it? It's really a bobcat, though.
A different hawk, this one with a bum wing. He was harder to shoot because he was behind a wire cage.

The Headless Knight

Little Teapot

Groundhog

I couldn't resist posting a couple more photos of the groundhog.

Autumn Bouquet

Bag o' footballs

I took too many photos at Cam's first football game. It's taking me forever to go through them and get them up on my Smugmug site.

Groundhog

I have a thingie on my other blog that tells me where people visit from and what they searched for to end up on Scenes from ME, and what gets the most hits is a photo I posted last summer of a black groundhog. Who knew so many people were interested in black groundhogs? (You can't get to this blog at all with a Google search. It's like a ninja blog!)

This (not black) groundhog lives at the Maine Wildlife Park in Gray. That little spot of dirt on his nose about kills me. As Chris's Grammie Bea would say, "Ain't that cunnin'."

Hawkeye and Fireweed

Another hawk photo, because I think he's cute.

And a couple of shots of our dining room/kitchen, which Chris painted over Labor Day weekend. He's awesome. The color is Fireweed by Sherwin Williams.

Hootie

An owl who lives at the Maine Wildlife Park. I think it's a barred owl. I had to shoot through two fences and try to blur out the chicken wire fence for this shot.

Book Club

I love to read more than just about anything, and for a while now I've thought being in a book club would be fun. Recently my friend Beth suggested starting one, and I jumped all over the chance. These are our first four books. We've already read and discussed Still Alice and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. This month is The Help, and The Story of Edgar Sawtelle will be next month. My friends in book club are some of my favorite people in the world; they're so smart and funny. We all live in Minot and have daughters who are friends. We decided to name our book club the Minot Literary and Black Fly Society. The other thing I love about book club is that I can make endless Fight Club/Book Club references like "what happens at book club stays at book club." Hooray for book club!

Football

Saturday Cam had his first football game of the season. He's a captain this year. Unfortunately, they lost 32-0 to Cape Elizabeth.

Fuzzy Caterpillar

When I Googled this caterpillar to find out what kind he is, I was surprised to learn what a nondescript brown moth he's going to turn out to be (a lophocampa maculata, or spotted tussock moth, if you want to Google a photo). He's kind of flamboyant as a larva, isn't he?