As I was sick, I missed this week’s 4-day bike adventure on the Great Allegheny Passage, but my friends are having a wet and wild time:
Autumn
Fall visit to Dad’s
Pre-Thanksgiving: photos by Beth, Elspeth, Erin, Sandy
Biking Mount Vernon to Gravelly Point & back
Ate our sandwiches at the foot of the National Airport runway, with the 14th Street Bridge, Jefferson Memorial, and Washington Monument behind us (but somehow failed to get a plane taking off into the frame).
Running past the weeds
On a morning run at Willowmere Park I passed a stunning display of thistles. I walked back for a closer look and found more to see than just weeds. The hummingbird moth was a bonus but the bindweed so entranced me I failed to focus on the last of the pokeweed berries, although they’re a favorite sight for me since Harold S told me about them. Don’t know what the puffballs are.
Rhys’s Christening
Thanksgiving at Judy’s
Dave, Davey, Rachel and Judy, Luka, Alex, Edwin and Sandy, Mike and Becky
Kiski Junction Railroad
Taking tea
Our Pittsburgh/Niagara trip
Our rose
Our rose is still with us, despite having suffered a one-inch rainfall and then a number of frosts. This may be my last rose picture of the year, because right afterwards, Jammer knocked off a half-dozen petals with a swipe of her tail.