Old Friends and Beautiful Mountains

We took a road trip down to Asheville for the wedding of Elizabeth's friend Mark, who she's known since she was about 13. It was a big reunion of folks she hadn't seen for years.





Plus we got to teach Nash how to play euchre.

Tigers and Tigers and Tigers, oh my!

Tiger Swallowtails on the bank of Rock Creek

Little Orleans

We rented PATC's Little Orleans cabin for a few days and took some nice bike rides on the C&O Canal, including a trip to the Paw Paw tunnel, a 3,118 foot tunnel that was built to take 6 miles off the canal route by going through a mountain instead of following the many bends in the river. Animal sightings included two pairs of mating rat snakes, several beavers (including a dead one at the foot of a waterfall), lots of zebra swallowtails and other butterflies, and a beautiful corn snake.

Matt's Latest Pets

A Brown Snake that eats earthworms from the garden

...and a skink that likes to stop and smell the flowers.