Kayak Trip

Here are a few shots I took during my first trip down the Great Egg Harbor River.
The water was clear and cool and lots of different wildflowers were blooming along the banks. I would love to do this trip again, but make more frequent stops and take more pictures. It took us 6 hours but the water was very low in places. At one point I even had to get out and pull my kayak over a fallen tree (and get back in without tipping over!!)

Summer Ending?

Can it be?? Evenings cool enough to sit out in the backyard around a blazing fire? I've taken so many pictures this summer I intended to post.
It's time for me to catch up, before I start taking fall shots of the yard & neighborhood.
This is Lucy in front of the chimenea on an evening when we came home unexpectedly early due to car trouble.