Very busy and fun day.. we spent most of the day with our young friend Finn. His mom Marcy was at a craft show, so we picked Finn up… and took him to Echo !

Matci gave me a henna lightning bolt before we went

it matched Finn’s shark

Echo was fun, I’ve been on the board there for quite a few years now.. I tend to see it through srpreadsheets 🙂 it was great to see it through Finn’s eyes..

we got to pet the starfish

and we got to play with the Keva blocks.. The staff folks were building some amazing things with them

in one corner of ECHO i learned that we are sister lakes with Lake Ohrid that borders Macedonia, Albania and Greece. I once spent a night in jai right after visiting this exact monastery !

 

after that we grabbed a bite to eat and then headed home. I was just laying down to take a short nap when diane yelled for me to come out.. There was a huge bald eagle in our back yard. I managed to get my telescope out and shoot a few iphone pics through there.. Sorry they are fuzzy.. but this was just amazing !

i managed to get my 8″ telescope out.. then carefully shot pictures on my iPhone through the eyepiece.. not ideal.. but at least you can see this magnificent bird.

 

 

I even caught him flying away

 

while I was out there , diane found a luna moth wing.. right after chris called to tell me he’d been dodging a luna moth while spinning fire.

 

 

After both finn and the eagle left, I spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning my lab.. very satisfying.. Then around 7:30 we headed in to town for the Lucinda Williams show.. it was really , really good.. Lots of grey (or no) hair in the audience 🙂

great show.. and I got to stre at the cool artwork in the flyn ceiling

 full and satisfying day.. now time for bed…. more stuff tomorrow !

nite all. nite sam

-me