Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay

Besides great music, the soundtrack for this past weekend came from theses fellows...

For weeks now and probably until cold weather,

we have been serenaded by hundreds of Cicadas.

They are an amazing insect, that I must confess creeps me out a bit.

Their incredibly loud sound is made by their tymbals...

 two structures found on the underneath sides of their abdomen.

It was a weekend away from the farm, spent with friends...

at their home on a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay.

In addition to great friends, great food and wine, biking and boating...

a weekend away refreshes

 and gives us a chance to experience a life that is so different from our own.

With different vistas...

The same sun that rises each morning over our front pasture,

also amazingly rises over this beautiful body of water.

It's pretty cool that we each watch the same sun rise each morning

over entirely different scenes!

This fellow didn't move the entire time we were there!

It's no surprise that our friends are dog-lovers as well.

These two gals entertained us most of the weekend,

with their rousing, but wet, games of fetch!

As I have said over and over....

it's always fun to go away...

but coming home is good as well!