Our magnolias only last a few days and then they’re gone.

It crushed a section of our back fence and blocked the back path. I got my chain saw stuck within seconds of starting work, but our neighbor Jack came with his big boy chain saw and saved the day, even giving me a fresh bit of wire fence.

How big? Inspection, two weeks later:

We had a few more days at the beach in early September with Jan, Marty, and Linda McD. No people pictures this time. You can hover on the edge of a photo to a show description and pause the slideshow — then un-hover to resume the slideshow. See Wikipedia articles on Roanoke Island, its Elizabethan Gardens, or the Whalehead Club at Corolla.

This race raised some money for Empowerhouse, whose website I help with. The director Kathy Anderson invited me to join her in a picture, but so were we caught drinking beer at 10 o’clock on a Sunday morning. Waters End Brewery was a race sponsor.