Feathers don't just fall from the sky.

I was getting ready for work this morning when I saw a few feathers floating down into our backyard. I looked up but didn't see anything, so I went about my business. But when I saw more feathers falling a few minutes later I couldn't let it drop. Eventually I figured it out: there was a hawk sitting in our oak tree eating something. When I opened the window to get a better look, the hawk flew away.

Kayaking the Prairie

One of the highlights of the trip home to Florida this year was kayaking on Paynes Prairie. When I lived in Gainesville in the 1980s, Paynes Prairie really was a prairie. But over the last several years, Gainesville has gotten enough rain to turn it back into a wetland, which is apparently its more natural state. Paynes Prairie is the only park I know of where you have a chance of seeing both alligators and bison in one place -- though I've never seen them both on the same day.

Thanksgiving

It was a cold Thanksgiving this year -- we had snow on Thanksgiving eve!


Our first Thanksgiving in our new house -- the combined Hargrave-Cohen clan.



Watching planes take off at Gravelly Point



At Great Falls on the Potomac

Trip to England

We went to England to visit Matt's uncle Martin and his partner Lee.


Martin and Lee in their garden



At the Notting Hill hotel



On our way to meet Lee in Chinatown




At the Notting Hill farmers market