More wee Cape Cod videos

A cornucopia of Cape Cod video clips.  Note: it was windy.

Watching the sunset over Wellfleet Harbor from the rental rooftop deck: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7HYq4LUJkc

Windy First Encounter Beach (alert: reduce volume): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqC2BAPVkv8

Frolic on southern tip of Great Island, Wellfleet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx1oUzQD1ZM&feature=channel

More of above.  Great Island.  Windy.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phHf2bKgpCM

Watching an educational video on Cape Cod with subtitles at Visitor’s Center, Salt Pond: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypOM9mI6MRk

Leah finds a Teepee in a Marsh in Wellfleet.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddHAikdwcg

We cross Uncle Tim’s Bridge in Wellfleet. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mkg1hc6iYcs

Great Island. Makes it into two videos above.

Tall Ships and Grass

Nice days are so few this year.  So we took advantage.  Visited the Tall Ships with friends Anne and Pablo.  Then rolled around in the grass in front of the Longfellow House.  We took 900 pictures, no kidding, but we edited down to 98.  Join us!

http://picasaweb.google.com/wedaman/TallShips709#

It is tall, afterall. But not really for Tall people, sigh.

Head of the Meadow Beach

O Pioneers!  A short film chronicling a of Cape Cod beaches on a grey & windy Saturday in early June.  If you like that Romantic tendency to stand on the rocky edge of England and watch waves pound ceaselessly, you might like this.  Includes running, stick-throwing-in-water, a map, reference to a fish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPqavtAchqI

Leah just prior to beach excursion.

Return of Batgirl

Batgirl returned today (from her trip to Brandeis).  She was needed to a) chase the vicious little kids who had crossed the street inoportunely, and b) to save an absent-minded professor who unknowingly drew nigh the sharp edge of Dangerous Mountain.  He could have fallen into the Chasm of Chagrin.  Did he?  What about his shoes?  You’ll have to watch to find out.  Warning for the faint of heart: Batgirl has a stick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V571Zn9PUrE

This girl has no relationship to Batgirl

The Haunted Closet

First Fake Rocks, then the curse of Flat Stanley pancaking the family, now what?  The Haunted Closet, that’s what.  Even Leah and Isaac flee before the ghosts, monsters, and butterflies that emerge from this most ominous storage area:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEiupJ2kL9s

Haunted Closet connected to spooky Salem via quantum wormhole?

Easter Pictures

For your viewing pleasure, a photo slideshow including pictures from an Easter Sunday Easter egg hunt:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157616978733668/show/

Pretty Flowers

Ella’s Birthday Party

Our friend Ella had her 4th birthday today in Larz Anderson park.  Turned out to be a gorgeous if windy day.  Fun had by all.  Activities included lots of running, playing in a Grecian temple, playing in a playground, activities at the birthday table, egg hunting, a kickball game, playing on the pitcher’s mound, and chasing people with a bunch of brightly colored balloons.  Some activities chronicled below.

1. Isaac and Leah running before the party.  Great action scenes if we do say so ourselves:
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByuQ8C48za4
2. Pictures on Flickr, chronicling table activities:
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157616305918267/show/
3. Singing Happy Birthday and Playing on the pitcher’s mound
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKR3d97gNYc
4. Chasing the Balloons
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2Hobg3phyQ
5. More pitcher’s mound.  Including worms and “Mountain Home.”
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY-hNNDMqB0

Balloons in Larz Anderson Park

Trip to Gloucester

We were invited to visit friends Karen, Jason, Oakes, and Locke in beautiful Gloucester, MA.  Fun included playing digging in tidal estuary.  Pictures:

1. The Flickr Set of Photos
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157615740620334/
2. Slideshow of Above
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157615740620334/show/

Classic Gloucester. We actually took this photo.

Pi Day Pictures

Leah and Isaac were so excited about the impending visit of cousins Kien and Tien (here now) that we had to run around outside in our pajamas.  A photo montage of our trip:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157615255570574/show/

Included:

1. Local Hand-cut Donut Shop
2. A family playground we stumbled upon.  Where we ran, jumped, and climbed.
3. The Porter Square Watch repair store (having Dad’s watch “overhauled”)
4. Playing on a real rock at Porter Square, Cambridge
5. Pretending we’re airplanes in Larch Road Park.
6. Playing in newly snow-free sand, still in Larch Road Park.  

 

 

Leah and Isaac in Watch Store

Visit to Bear Den

Road trip for Men of the Meadow!

Today we chose with no research in advance to invite Sarah Frances, Lesley Q, Tien, and Kien to join us at the little known Trustees of Reservations property “Bear’s Den.”

A 3-minute Video: http://www.archive.org/details/BearsDen
Picture slideshow on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157614313837130/show/

The Den was snow-clad and pristine.  And we in sneakers.  Trail markings were obscured by snow, and it rained. But we persevered.

The Den per local lore is where Indian King Philip planned a 1675 attack on English settlements. It’s also where mills and sluices fed our nation’s industry and somebody shot a bear (hence the name).

The Trustees of Reservations is a nice sort of Massachusetts-focused Nature Consevancy with a variety of properties open to the public.

3 youths at Bear's Den