Last Days of Summer

On Friday we picked the first tomatoes. It has always been a tradition to record this moment since reading Rosemary Wells' "Voyage to the Bunny Planet", a collection of small books for children (and others), one of which is called First Tomato.

Stinson Beach

Here I am enjoying the fog at Stinson Beach...or trying to.

Wetsuits made everything possible. Mina and Grace could care less about the foggy weather. They were in the water for 2-3 hours at a time.

Grace and Mina...no photo of me for evidence, but I put on my wetsuit as well and played in the waves.

Viewing birds and seals on the Bolinas Lagoon...read all about it: http://www.bolinaslagoon.org/

No zoom on my cell phone camera for this shot, but we are viewing about 50 seals relaxing in the shallow lagoon.

A fire hydrant sand castle on Stinson Beach...dogs prints everywhere around it.

Luna's back in her favorite spot.

12 Annual Adoption Reunion...more summertime photos

Here we have Grace and Emily going all the way in the ocean waves on Saturday, July 31 in Half Moon Bay. You know that water was cold!

Phern and Nancy begin the weekend with our adoption group/extended family at the Macaroni Grill in San Mateo.

Renee Roth and Mina Ching take off on the trail ride...Renee cannot believe that she is actually doing this.

After a horse ride we picnicked at Half Moon Bay State Beach...I was completely amazed that the sun shined on us...it has been the dreariest, foggiest, cold summer that I can ever remember in San Francisco.

On Saturday morning we gathered in Half Moon Bay for a trail ride along the beach. In our group of approximately 40 people, 21 rode horses, including yours truly! I must say that Grace was the most experienced rider.

Hannah Mei, Emma, Phern and Emily.

Phern, Renee, Martin.

Clockwise from the top:

Mina, Grace, hannah Mei, Tessie, Emily B, and Emily R.

The 3 of us are pretending to be lifeguards as Grace and Emily enter the ocean.

Grace and Emily B go all the way in at Half Moon Bay State Beach.

Another miracle of Mother Nature: the sun shined at our hotel, the San Mateo Marriott. I highly recommend it: the pool was 85 degrees, the girls played water polo.