Boris

We lost Boris last week. He was ready to go, tired of battling throat cancer since March.

Alabama is Springing

Trying out a new blogging platform, medium.com. Let me know if any of you have problems with it.

We are very much enjoying spring in the South East. Doggy is eating all kinds of new green stuff:

It rained Tulips!

For a few weeks last month, these tulip flowers rained down on everthing in our backyard, including on this guy:

Max-giving

We had a delightful Thanksgiving. Not surprisingly, 1.5 year old Max was the star of the holiday:

Stingray ghost

We took a trip down to Alabama’s Gulf Shore for some good old fashion beach lounging:

Poodle Puppy

Helen got Irina an adorable baby poodle, named Devochka :

High Speed Gyroscope

We had a wonderful visit from Zach, Nick, Chloe, 9 month old Max. Initially they forgot to re-extend Max’s head, which was left in collapsed airplane mode so he would fit in the suitcase:

1 minute trail builder

The newest member of our backyard menagerie, a red-tailed hawk:

My Fancy Pants

The clue to this mystery photo: I hunted our backyard for 2 days to find it. Answer a few photos below:

Posthistoric Ant

Remember those prehistoric mosquitoes that were preserved in tree sap in Jurassic Park? I was inspired to preserve a present day ant so that people (or maybe aliens) will have something to play with in a few million years: