
I woke up before dawn and ran down to the beach to welcome the sun. What a perfect birthday present!

We had a wonderful mini family reunion last night at Tom’s cousins Tom and Sally Simons’ house in Gloucester. Fabulous house, great food and the cutest, biggest dogs known to mankind. That’s Tom and Sally Simons on the right with Theo, then Tom and Me, and then Tom’s daughter Jessica and her husband…

Tom and I took the plunge and rented a house overlooking the ocean in Gloucester. Three weeks!! What the heck will we do? Well, I am taking loads of pictures and having more fun than is legal. Here are a few: The Happy Man Paper Wasp Blowing a Bubble (look closely) Semi Palmated Plover…