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plantation vs. jungle

Posted on 13 September 2019

plantation vs. jungle

plantation vs. jungle

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Our family’s trips around the sun. Poetry, photography, travelogue. Where we are right now: New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

Erie, PA day 2: 1. View from my hotel room 2. @b

Erie, PA day 2:
1. View from my hotel room
2. @bassonline fishing trip with Will
3. The bay
4. North Pier Lighthouse
5. Will reeled in this drum/sheephead
6. Lake Erie. This was actually only the second time I’ve been out on a boat on the lake proper
7. Will fishing
8. Perry Monument
9. Horseshoe Pond houseboats
10. Captain Mark, his son, and Will
11. Will and Molly after she completed the Erie Marathon
12. Beach 1
13. OHP at @romolochocolates
14. Chocolate meltaways at Romolo’s
15. Paying respects at Calvary cemetery

Erie, PA day 1: 1. The lake 2. @lekkocoffee in C

Erie, PA day 1:
1. The lake
2. @lekkocoffee in Cleveland
3. Lake Erie decor
4. View of the marina from my room
5. Lake Erie shipwrecks
6. Whacky Shack schematic coaster at @glassgrowersgallery
7. Mandala outside GGG
8. @eriekidsmuseum with Will and Molly
9. Goldenrod and asters at @asburywoodserie
10. The Grandfather Tree at Asbury Woods
11. Swamp at Asbury
12. Jack-in-the-pulpit in fruit
13. There were so many white coral mushrooms, and all these orange guys that were unfamiliar to me. iNaturalist says they are also a kind of coral mushroom known as spindles. Super cool.
14. The Little Woods at Asbury.
15. Sunset over the bay from the hotel.

New Haven day 4: 1. Morris Cove 2. Nana has her

New Haven day 4:
1. Morris Cove
2. Nana has her own highway
3. Forbes Bluff
4. Awesome swings at East Shore Park
5. Clever bocce score card, just requires a couple sticks
6. Other side of Forbes Bluff
7. Steps to the sound
8. New Haven has these beautiful little bioswale gardens in place of storm drains in a lot of places, very cool
9. Owen with Pin Oak
10. Pin Oak crown
11-16. Rachel Carson exhibit at Beinecke Library. I wasn’t sure I had time to stop. 12-14 brought tears to my eyes - she is my poet for science hero. 🥰

Students were handing out these excellent booklets

Students were handing out these excellent booklets at the Democratize Yale protest

New Haven day 3: 1. Democratize Yale protest 2.

New Haven day 3:
1. Democratize Yale protest
2. Owen took me behind the scenes at the Peabody Museum for a peek at the collections.
3. I think this is something like Himalayan monal
4. They’re watching
5. Owen holds two of the hermit species from his fieldwork this summer
6. I think something like fiery thornbill
7. Wilson’s bird-of-paradise
8. Owen with elephant bird egg
9. Extinct birds, including ivory-billed woodpecker
10. BoP plumes
11. King of Saxony BoP in the top left is my favorite
12. Hydrangea with rain
13. Owen will be working to identify birds in the artwork of the Yale Center for British Art, so I went to check it out. This installation is in the foyer
14. Light at the YCBA
15. The Long Room has pieces chock-a-block with no labels
16. And I was drawn to this piece. Later I did a reverse image search and found it’s called “Hope” and helped inspire Obama’s campaign
17. Some bird paintings at YCBA
18. I loved these steps on Humphrey Street

New Haven day 2: 1. Pond by Sarah Selke’s in East

New Haven day 2:
1. Pond by Sarah Selke’s in East Lyme
2. Sunrise from my bedroom window
3. Another pond by Sarah’s
4. Rocky Neck State Park
5. Egret at Rocky Neck SP
6-7. The Place, Guildford
8. Owen got his room mostly organized

New Haven day 1. Owen’s dorm room, suite common r

New Haven day 1. Owen’s dorm room, suite common room exterior, and room exterior. He ended up through the luck of the draw getting a double in the suite to himself.

Alex finished the Crazy Mountain 100!

Alex finished the Crazy Mountain 100!

Montana day 4: 1. A thunderstorm blew up toward th

Montana day 4:
1. A thunderstorm blew up toward the end of the race. This sent everyone scrambling for the shade tents
2. Alex at I think mile 73.
3. Pronghorn
4. Molly’s Custom Silver made the beautiful belt buckles for finishers

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