Kitten

Video of Perry the kitten:

Day Trip to Charlottesville

We took a trip today to Charlottesville to visit Jefferson's Monticello. It was beautiful with all of the fall colors. Only thing that'd have made it better would've been a blue sky! But, despite the somewhat dreary, overcast weather, we can't complain since at least it didn't start raining until we got in the car and began to drive away (yes, the timing was that perfect). We kind of missed Halloween/trick-or-treating, but then, we don't usually have many more than 2-3 trick-or-treater clusters in our neighborhood anyway. So, that's okay - the Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes were sufficient celebration of Halloween, I think :)

Enjoy these pictures, and try to imagine the colors about 10 times more brilliant (the pictures really don't do them justice - not sure if it's my camera or if the lighting was just bad from the overcast sky!).

Monticello & Halloween - 103109

Critters in the 'Burg

Wow, it's already October. Hard to believe! It's still warm outside, so it still feels a bit more like late summer than fall, but I know the cold weather is coming. I love fall, from pumpkin bread and pumpkin spice lattes to the pretty leaves and football games.

Today we went on a walk on Greensprings Trails in Williamsburg and it was a walk ridden with wildlife! We saw a turtle, a bunny, a bunch of deer (including 4 fairly up-close), a strange looking caterpillar, and various other creatures. Here are some photos at the link below, plus a couple videos of the deer (which really didn't upload very well - they're grainy and pixelated - but oh well, you can get the point at least!).

Greensprings Walk

Pictures!

We have been severely neglecting this blog because I (Jenny) am now on Facebook, which is where I tend to post everything now - pictures, thoughts, etc. So, sorry to those who check only the blog - will try to be better. Here are some photos from the past couple weeks or so:

Today - walking around William & Mary
(The above pictures were from an afternoon walk, which partly occurred because I am in charge of the annual report at my office, and I have to get iconographic photos of the campus; the professional we hired did well but didn't take a lot of close-ups, plus didn't shoot everything we wanted him to, so I took it upon myself to shoot things on my own. I will not bore you with close-ups of ancient bricks and columns, but the above link shows the best photos from the day.)

Beach Days - posted Aug. 23
(Our last trip to Sandbridge Beach, where we found the shore - and waters - laden with jellyfish! Yikes!)

Summer Vacation

My (Jenny's) parents and brothers visited last week and we had a wonderful time together. The only bad thing was how fast the time flew by! Here are some pictures from their trip as well as a video of Ben surf fishing (Daniel and Matthew also surf-fished, as did my dad, but Ben was probably the one who went the farthest out with his pole in order to get to where the fish were!).

Photos from Fort Monroe, Williamsburg/Ben's birthday, and Washington, DC:

Family Visit July 09 - Ben's bday, DC, etc

Photos from fishing at Sandbridge Beach:

Family Visit Aug. 1, 2009

Video of surf fishing:

Pictures of July 4, Beach, Family Time

For those of you not on Facebook, here's a link to a few select pictures from our July 4th weekend - which included a visit from Ben's parents, a day at the beach, and a colonial 4th celebration. Oh, and also a trip down to Ft. Monroe to see where Ben works.

View album here

We are now gearing up for the second family visit, which will be the last week of July. Can't wait!! Otherwise, we're both enduring our jobs and catching as much sun on the weekend as we can.

That's all for now!

Summertime in Williamsburg

Here are some pictures we took recently. Except for the first two, all the rest are in Colonial Williamsburg. It's so pretty here in the summertime, though very hot right now as well! We are looking forward to the coming week, when Ben's parents are coming to visit us for a week. We'll go to the Colonial W'burg 4th of July stuff, and we are also planning to take a day to drive down to the Outer Banks. Fun, fun!

Turkey and baby turkeys (turklets?) that we saw beside the road less than 1/4 mile from our house:

Pretty carnations Ben got me on a particularly stressful workday (which has been pretty much every day lately!):

Ben, a cat-lover, found a cute kitty in Colonial W'burg who was just waiting to be petted:

Bruton Parish:

Pretty silhouetted home and trees:

Pretty flower in the Colonial W'burg garden:

A moth (photo by Ben):

Colonial home:

Another colonial home (this one looks different than many of the others in CW - it's brick and has a huge, distinctive, gnarly tree in front of it):

Famous colonial home (I forget the name of it):