I’m visiting my brother in Chesapeake Beach and it’s steamy hot here. Days in the mid to high 80s and high humidity. The first few moments you step outside, adjectives run through your head like “warm blanket”, “tropical” and “steam bath” but then if you spend more time outside the thoughts change to “sweaty” and “darn hot” and “I really want to go back to air conditioning.” I don’t know if I could live here. But yet it’s really nice to spend time with family.
I arrived Tuesday afternoon at Dulles and spent a couple hours in beltway traffic during rush hour in my rental car. I was happy to finally arrive at my brother Gary’s house and enjoy the dinner that was cooked by my nephew Matt. Yesterday, my niece Emma visited us with her cute 2-year-old son Graham. Today niece Caroline and I did some birding in the morning’s steamy heat along a boardwalk behind the town of Chesapeake Beach. We saw quite a few birds in the marsh, including nesting ospreys and a secretive green heron. Around Gary’s house, I saw and heard downy and pileated woodpeckers, cardinals, Carolina chickadees, white-breasted nuthatches and red-eyed vireos. This evening we all enjoyed a nice dinner with Emma and her husband Matt and their son Graham in an Italian restaurant in nearby Prince Frederick.
This coming Saturday night, Gary, Caroline, Matt and I will catch a red-eye flight from Dulles to Edinburgh, Scotland, and we’re preparing now for the trip. Not too much to write about until we’re overseas, so there probably won’t be another blog post until then. But I’ll share a few shots from my brother’s house for now.
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