Another September Celebration

Drew, Jake, and friends spent the weekend at Lake Chelan, WA, celebrating the wedding of some friends from their Dungeons & Dragons group.  Click here for photos.  

In other news, Emily is off to a great start in her new job at ORM Fertility, and back east the fishing is good. 

Click here for a few photos from our recent weekends on the Chesapeake. Finally, in the ongoing bird feeder saga of Pat v. Squirrel, we'll let you guess who's winning...

September in Oregon

We made another trip to Oregon this month to see the kids and celebrate our good friend Ari on the occasion of his Bar Mitzvah. Click here for photos. Our visit included some nice hikes and lots of hanging out, and we got to see the first snow of the season on Mt. Hood as we flew back to Philadelphia. 

August in Oregon

Just back from a trip to Oregon to help Emily get settled into her new rental house. Photos of her new place are included in the album linked here, along with pictures from a hike we took along the Tom, Dick and Harry Trail near Mirror Lake in Mt. Hood National Forest; sailing and dinner on the docks at the Willamette Sailing Club; dog sitting for some friends; and more. 

Here's a little awkward family photo "then and now"... tree climbing June 2016, near Zig Zag Falls, Mt. Hood, and August 2021, near Mirror Lake, Mt. Hood.

And two recent reflections... Mirror Lake, Oregon v. Still Pond, Chesapeake Bay. 

Exploring Philadelphia with Drew and Grace

LOVEly day exploring Philadelphia with Drew and Grace - from Independence Hall to Dilworth Park; Philadelphia Museum of Art to Penn's Landing. Click here for photos.

Chesapeake Weekend

Drew and Grace are visiting from the West Coast, so we spent the weekend exploring the Upper Chesapeake, from Havre de Grace to Rock Hall, MD.  Our evening in Rock Hall checked all the boxes for sailing on the bay - good wind, a scenic anchorage, delicious crabs, a beautiful sunset, and great company.  Click here for photos, including a throw-back to the last time we enjoyed Chesapeake Bay crabs - in 2007 during our sailing trip aboard Jubilee.  

Meanwhile back in Oregon... Jake and Emily are dog-sitting for Fig and getting Jake settled in his new apartment. Click here for photos. 

Prior to Drew's and Grace's arrival, we made our first visit to Philadelphia's Woodmere Museum - a close-to-home gallery showcasing Philadelphia artists. Click here for photos. 

4th of July

The fireworks show in Havre de Grace, MD, was a good one, and we had great "seats" aboard Snow Goose, anchored just off the fireworks barge. Glad we could share some photos/video clips with the kids because Oregon had to cancel all fireworks due to extreme fire risk.  

Click here for photos from our 4th of July in the upper Chesapeake Bay, mixed in with a few photos the kids shared. Jake and Emily enjoyed a day at the Oregon Coast while also babysitting Fig. Drew and Grace spent the weekend camping in Central Oregon with the family whose kids Grace has been nannying for this past year. And we sailed, kayaked, and did our best to avoid the swarms of mayflies that decided to hatch just in time for the holiday weekend. 

Portland Heat Wave

We spent a long weekend in Portland to help Jake and Emily move from Corvallis and Bellingham respectively to Portland, where Jake is now working at Applied Materials and Emily with Girls Inc.  Their moves were timed with the most extreme heat Portland has ever seen. Daily temperatures were over 110, making the Willamette River - and Drew's air-conditioned house - welcome retreats once the boxes were unloaded.  Click here for photos. At one point, Emily literally fried an egg on the sidewalk. Despite the heat, it was great to be together for a few days. 

While hanging out at the Willamette Sailing Club, the boys got to try a SlingShot foil board, catch-up with friends, and help Fig practice her swimming.

Ahead of our departure for the West Coast, Jake and I got to spend a day at the University of Pennsylvania's Morris Arboretum and a nearby Tee's golf/batting center. Click here for those photos.