2007 Annual Picnic at Wickham

It was absolutely perfect weather for the annual picnic even by my standards. (I love the artic bone chilling winds of course.) We had a good turn out:

• Dan, Jude and Aleah
• Raf and Family
• My family and we stopped and grabbed Dylan too

First we parked cars and chit chatted. We discussed the near burning of my new house down due to a defective tea candle that was in an iron wall sconce. We caught up on work news and family matters and then we ate! The kids alternated between the playscape and trying to fly their kites. Ryan found a feather from a bluejay and bunch of 'other' assorted feathers.

After that we went to the nature center and larger playscape and then we fed the birds. On the way back to our Barbecue site we grabbed ice cream for everyone. Here's some pictures:

The Infamous Mr. Gebben.
(Dan)

Bynsters

Ryan

Nathaniel


Dylan

The Boys

Judy

The Girls

At The Playground, Ya know.

Beutiful weather

Raf
His birthday is September 5th, Dan's is the 10th, I'm hoping to have them both over for dinner.

Interesting tale regarding Mr. Wickham
I've been to this park like 50 times and never once new Horace invented the Window Envelope!

A working sundial. (It was accurate to the minute)

An Antique we saw on the way

Another Antique we saw on the way

WASP NEST!!!!

Lepidolite
(Quite Common out at my house. Usually mined as a source for Lithium)

Muscovite
(Also Quite Common out at my house, used as an electrical insulator and as Christmas tree snow)

Pigeon Skeleton: Kinda cool

This bird BIT ME!

Bobcat Skull from the side... Scary.

Bobcat Skull

Beaver Skull
(Crazy Teeth!)

Birds we were feeding

An Emu.
(They make a deep rumbling sound when they speak. Really cool. They have oily feathers)

A 300 LB Black bear, the Biggest found in CT

A Black Bear Skull


Some Feathers (Froggy skeletons too)

Stuffed Bobcat
(You can find these in CT but their quite shy and usually avoid humans like the plague. They prefer to hunt in tall grass and only at night although some people who keep chickens say they can be a nuisance. There are not many left in CT)