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| Reunited, Back to nature with the Tucks and Martinelli/Hortons! |
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| Soooo good to be back outdoors with our old friends, ever since age 2. |
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| Nothing like boys whittling with sharp knives |
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| Catching up after over a year apart |
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| Checking to see who's grown faster |
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| How I missed my Courtney! |
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| A blemish on nature |
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| Baby turtle, strayed from the lake |
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| Cradling baby turtle |
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| Awww! |
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| Ken is the best in the water, after developing his aqua play skills for a year as the stay-at-home dad with resort pool in Asia |
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| Our two leaky tents, given to us for free by Bruce, extras his boy scout group were getting rid of. By the end of this trip, they had been hit by a surprise battering ram of a storm, which arrived the next day, blowing our tents up into the air and dealing them their final blows. You can probably still find them in a dumpster upstate. After returning from Asia to an earthquake in NYC, a hurricane in LI, and a storm involving our needing to evacuate our campsite upstate, we were wondering our Mother Nature felt about our return home. |
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| Everyone was dying for a campfire, after over a year without. Graeme was our most devoted, diligent camp fire blower, like Alice, patiently dedicating hours to completing a project. |
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| Maybe blowing will make this fire rise like a phoenix out of its failed ashes |
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| Tomatillos for the traditional O'Neal-Freeman campfire fajitas |
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| And, the traditional Matthew Tuck EXCELLENT liquor camping closet - with a surprise visit by Ken and my 20-year-long love -- Grgich Hills Cabernet! |
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| Many y chromosomes, and much male fretting later, the fire finally took and the boys in the family stayed by its side until the wee hours of the morning. |
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| Fire breather |
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| Boom learned fire blowing techniques from Graeme |
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| And, finally, after a painful wait, Leo and Radley arrive, with Leo not leaving Boom's side for the rest of the camping trip. |
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| And, the ultimate product of the blood sweat and ashes of a campfire -- s'mores! |
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| Typically beautifully organized Tuck campsite |
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| Much contested monopoly games |
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| Jawbone found on our hike |
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| Batman as our nature guide |
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| Radley, Ken and Matthew chatting on the field we found |
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| A field filled with bales of hay |
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| Leo, framed by a bale |
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| Well-captured action shot, Courtney! |
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Alice's blog: In the picture above, I am standing on a bale of hay. |
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