Summer summer summer!

Summer continues and the weather's been fantastic. Not much new going on...As I write this I'm watcching a very mad/disappointed hummingbird at our empty feeder outside...I took it down because I learned that they can be quite bad for transmitting disease between hummingbirds and it's better to plant flowers that provide nectar to them instead, but the feeder's sitting empty on the bench and the bird is just buzzing around, trying again and again to get something out of nothing. Poor thing.

Anyway--keeping busy, working away, etc. Next weekend is the music festival which we're looking forward to, and if it's nice we'll camp out. The following week will be the last of our vacation as we spend some time with friends at a nearby camp. In the meantime, here are some recent pictures of Cadence.

Last week my stepsiter Corrine came up for a week's visit...we only saw them briefly one evening for dinner. Here is Cadence with his cousins Pete & Emma as they all pose for some pictures.


Figured out how to open the china cabinet door. Hm.


I keep on planting him at the piano, hoping that it'll just imprint itself on him. We've definitely put together some pretty good duets, and they get better every day.