Today is the annual Willard Fun Carnival fund raiser. I escorted Maya and her friends Lydia and Sarinnagh through the various activities. At one point, I turned around to discover they had stuffed themselves into these lockers.  Too funny.

Seth Bird is one of Kyle’s friends and is often over to the house.

Nicolai hosts an “airsoft” battle. Jeanine, of all people, was the first to buy one of these air pellet guns for Nico. Now everyone in the neighborhood has one and the boys can regularly be seen engaged in battle. Fortunately they all take eye safety seriously.

The management team takes a five minute break to pose for a photo. You are looking at the people who are shaping the future of video and film production.

Our second day meetings were held at the York Harbor Inn which was surrounded by exotic flowers of all kinds.

Dinner did not start till 8PM which afforded me an opportunity to catch the sunset.

I found another lighthouse for Jeanine (only to discover later that she had already discovered it on her own). 

I spent the last two days in York Harbor, Maine at the Stage Neck Inn for a work related management retreat. Regretably, the work schedule left little time for exploration but I did manage to find a few minutes here and there.

A parting image of Maine as I head back to Massachusetts for a soccer match at Easton. The heat was brutal and the field was terrible. No one played well, but we managed to come away with a 1-0 win secured by a goal in the last 10 minutes.

Birds and the bees ….. minus the bees.

A solitary Sandpiper out for his breakfast stroll.

Here we paddle past a fine Double-Crested Cormorant drying its wings.

Later in the day, Jeanine, Maya and I kayaked out to a small island about 1 mile off shore. We were treated to dozens of seals popping their heads up and splashing around the kayak. Here is a pup checking us out from his perch on the rocky beach.

And here is the catch. Yum yum.