Last of the Cape Cod Photos

Friends C.P., Jimmy, Jim, and Pete joined us at the end of our Cape Cod stay.  We did things with them.  The end of the Cape Cod photos.

Goofing around in Wellfleet and revisiting Great Island Beach (should look familiar) with C.P. and Jimmy and relaxing afterward on the deck with all: http://gallery.me.com/wedaman1#100668

Cape Cod National Seashore Visitor’s Center, First Encounter Beach, and splashing in the vigorous Atlantic surf on White Crest beach: http://gallery.me.com/wedaman1#100678

Something Interesting Over There.

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.

Novelties Distribution in Holyoke, MA

1.5 minute video document registering recent distribution of novelty glasses and star-shaped stickers unto personages in Holyoke, MA.  Fun.

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

These noodles were not distributed in Holyoke. But still.

Passover Pictures and Videos

Pictures and video from our Passover Seder in Shutesbury, MA, which was near a farm, conveniently combined for you into one post.  The pictures we’ve already posted but the video is brand new.

• Pictures:
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157616889820575/show/
• Video Montage of Seder Dinner:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWJgRn_FkFA
• Video of visit to nearby, “Seder” Farm:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frOc2HOVmcU

Pre-Seder Driveway Activity

Running and Peeking and Speed Racer

Three little videos ready for viewing:

1. “Running,” video of Leah and Isaac running around yesterday, now improved with Leah and Isaac adding audio comentary.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8McF2p7NU9w
2. “Watching SR” is a short chronicle of Leah and Isaac watching episodes of 60s cartoon Speed Racer on YouTube.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR_FQIkXK8
3. “Peekin Out Window” is a meditation on watching people out our window.  Watching Mama, to be precise, load up the car and take our friends to the airport.
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPqWgL2MyVE

Speed Racer Posing in Front of Mach Five.

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.

NERCOMP 2009

Meadowmen made a family trip to the Northeast Regional Computing Program Annual Conference March 9 – 11 in Providence, MA.  David presented “The Future of the Library: Library Construction Kit” with David Lewis of I.U.P.U.I. on Monday afternoon, and lead a team of conference Tweeps (people who reported on the conference virtually via the application Twitter).  Sarah and the next generation played in and around hotels and visited the conference proceedings once or twice.

Keynotes were John Maeda of Rhode Island School of Design and Morris Beverage of Lakeland Community College.

A smattering of pictures from hotel, conference, adjacent fancy mall:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35697021@N06/sets/72157615049763597/show/

A video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlVnDtYlK_4

See the tens of pages of conference Tweets: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23nc09

Leah with her Papa's conference badge and ribbons

Welsh Hymns in Salem

In honor of Saint David’s Day, we visited Salem, MA, and listened to a choir sing hymns in Welsh four-part harmony with Julie Silver and her children David and Teddy.   FYI Welsh sacred choral singing festivals are called Gymanfa Ganu and go back a long ways, even further back than How Green Was my Valley.  A two-minute video recap of our trip:

http://ia331421.us.archive.org/0/items/WelshHymnsSalem/medium.m4v

Note: we got there early so we ate a pizza and went back later.

Think about the Witch City while you have a cup of coffee.

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

Scott McKenzie

We like this YouTube montage to the Scott McKenzie song “If You’re Going to San Francisco:”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_HhwinPw-M

Look for the skinny guy with the top hat.  Classic!