There is always so much to do here, and we wish we could do it all. We passed up haunted houses, shopping, carnivals and pumpkin patches this weekend. I heard about a beached blue whale on the news radio on Thursday. We went to see it Sunday. Oh boy was it rainy- very reminiscent of our Glasgow days. We were soaked through in a matter of minutes, even with our gear... The coast is beautiful and Sunday it was fierce. We found the whale and her foetus. Apparently it was hit by a ship. The baby was born premature. The mother was 80 feet and the baby was 17. We were so sad looking at the remnants of such an amazing and giant animal. However, we were very glad we got to see it. Maybe (hopefully) a once in a life time event.
And then Atlas and Leif found a freshly electrocuted crow. They were walking home in the evening and heard a ruckus of cawing. On the ground beneath a telephone pole was a crow. They came home and asked if they could bring it home. So they went back and got it. They almost exchanged it for a fake one in a Halloween display of one of the neighbors's. Could you imagine? It was measured, weighed, examined- they found a blown-out ear, then they plucked a few raven colored feathers, and finally they buried it and marked the spot so that next spring they will have a skeleton to look at.
3 comments:
Beautiful (if slightly morbid) pics.
It's raining here (of course), but also much darker than there. We've now surpassed the level of darkness you'll get to at mid-Winter.
Sigh.
Poor whales!
Your kids are so funny!
I'd trade weather with you. It is now spring/summer again, skipping a proper fall and winter at 84 humid degrees. I was sick today running errands it was so hot.
We are having great weather- rain on the weekends and sun during the week- it helps us to stay grounded and home! It is truly fall. The sun is obviously lower in the sky and the shadows longer. It is nice!
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