Four Part Harmony

We’ve been pretty busy around here…here’s a quick batch of photos.

Well, actually here’s a little video of Anna and I playing the 3 card monte/shell game, except with a pinecone and some play-doh cans. Watch closely, she moves those cans pretty fast.

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Anna and I went down to the Rhododendron Garden last week. We went all the time this past spring and summer to see the ducks, but haven’t been in months. Nothing really blooming yet but, as you can see, lots of geese. Lots of ducks and other waterfowl too, actually. Spring is in the air.

Here’s Anna listening to headphones for the first time. Well, I’ve tried to get her to listen to them in the past, but she hasn’t really been interested. But I put on her most recent favorite song (‘Jambalaya’) and she sat in her chair and listened to it all the way through twice.

This past Sunday the weather was beautiful, and we went up to the arboretum and Japanese garden.

Anna spent the first part of the walk putting together a little pine cone collection.

Here’s Anna, pretty happy about her pine cone collection.

And here’s another shot.

Unfortunately the camera battery died on us, shortly after this, so we didn’t get many pictures from the Japanese gardens. On the way in we saw a really interesting interaction between two hummingbirds. Presumably it was some sort of courtship behavior. One had a bright pink iridescence on its chest, the other was green and they were sitting on a branch just a few feet away from us chattering away at each other for a minute or so before they suddenly went zipping off. We also spent some time finding our reflections in the water.

So long for now.