Hazy, Hot, and Humid, on the Dahlgren Heritage Rail Trail, 3 August 2024
3H Half-Marathon
Summer
Lunch at Belmont
The walk-in barn: my favorite lunch spot on my shift at Belmont.
Chincoteague, Virginia
We had a few days at the beach in early August. We all rode bikes, we walked, some of us went running at sunrise, we sat on the beach, played in the sand, ate and drank. Wore plenty of sunblock and needed lots of insect repellant for the wildlife refuge. No sunburn or shipwrecks and nobody drowned. We also saw a big NASA rocket launched (see separate page). Various photographers. You can hover on the edge of a photo to a show description and pause the slideshow — then un-hover to resume the slideshow.
OBX-22: beach week, September
Full disclosure: the sand octopus at top was not our doing — we just took the picture.
Longwood Gardens
Erin took us to Longwood Gardens to see “Light: Installations by Bruce Munro“.
Davey & Luka
Hyperion rainy day run
Fredericksburg Area Runners Club: Saturday morning runs start 7am in the summer, across the road from Hyperion Espresso.
Pawpaw
We hadn’t realized we had any pawpaw trees until yesterday, when I found these several fruits on the ground by the bench in the meditation garden. The leaves were familiar enough, although I had previously mistaken their trees for hickory saplings. Apparently both the skin and seeds are poisonous. Sandy cut two open for an inside photo, and we carefully tasted, spitting out the seeds. It’s somewhere between pineapple and banana. I went looking for more, and found the set on the left, below, at least long enough to snap the picture.
Lunch Spot, Sept 2nd
Southern end of the 7-mile Youghiogheny Reservoir, Addison, Pennsylvania. I was too quick to snap the water-skiier.
Turtle Creek at Murrysville
Sept 1st, after recent rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida