Happy Solstice! Happy Father's Day!

Ahhh, darkness is coming soon. In the meantime, the sun continues to share its glory. We are celebrating the summer solstice by heading south, way south, to where they just celebrated winter solstice. The best part about it is the temperature is about the same, so we can just pack what we've been wearing lately. (They wear Carharts down under, right? Fashion, my middle name.)

To all the dad's out there, Happy Father's Day! Especially to Grampa Bill and Gramps D! And Boppa, of course. We celebrated with grits and eggs and lots of sugar bombs in donut and pie form.

Here's what we've been up to the last few days.

Hanging out with dear friends from Bethel, enjoying the lilly pads in bloom and the dull roar of float plane engines 50 feet away.

A little bit of fun out at Boose and Meghan's house-sitting location. It's pretty much a wonderland for 2 year olds and up. Trampoline. Buoy swings. Bio-diesel brewing. Etc. (That's just the tip of the iceberg, really.)

I love the static effect on the Boodah's hair.

Here's Boose going for it again. The water was a bit rougher this day.

Lots of bison on the move, including babies.

We don't know the story on this last one. It may have attempted to surf when it was a little too big out.

And a glorious in town hike for a father's day mission. Nothing like hiking through a special warfare training venue! Fortunately, we managed to avoid any stray fire from Navy Seals to enjoy this lovely view.

Here's looking back towards Mill Bay Beach.

Buddies at the beach.

Pax Rev, doing some beach bouldering for health and fitness. With a backdrop like that, he should start a tv fitness program or something.

Here's Stokes, getting into his near crawl form. Boodah spent a lot of time in the commando mode before moving on to walking. Stokes is quite different. He loves to pop up on his hands and knees, and sometimes his hands and toes, and then launch into a steamroller. He can cover quite a bit of ground this way. I think we watched Strange Brew while he was gestating and he picked up the move. Hopefully he can survive this stage without any major head injuries. (Fortunately, we are helmet owners just in case.)