We are in the middle of a nasty july heat wave. It’s 97F plus humidity outside right now. The river is showing it too.
My Weatherbug says its 97F outside
It’s not always ugly.
Cloudy skies across the river.
I used to call these Tiger Lilies when I was a kid.
I won a indoor rowing race and got a trophy for it.
I went hiking in the White Mountains. It was a beautiful bluebird day and I got a shot of this dead tree.
On our way to lunch we crammed three grown adults into the backseat of a “5″ passenger car. It was a little tight.
These little binder clips are a surprisingly important part of my job, I use them to hold test cases together.
I bought this new octopus necklace for myself. I love it , it’s a blue octopus made of polymer clay.
I went for a walk at lunch to take some pictures of the river. What I found was a flock of Mallard Ducks. There were probably 30 or 40 of them and a few brave souls had flown up to the walkway to eat grains someone had thrown down for the birds. An interesting sight for the middle of winter.
I took Cooper out for a walk at Tower Hill Pond. Everything was so cold and icy.
My husband likes to go ice climbing. These are some of the screws he places in the ice for protection.
HappyCat is our often forgotten second cat. He’s a pretty animal but unmemorable personality wise.
Our friend Nicole has an awesome owl tattoo on her back. We were at the climbing gym today and I liked how her sports bra made it look like she just had wings on her back.
I have a wonderful stash of teas at my desk (and at home too). I realized as I took this picture today that most of the teas were Stash brand.
I have a collection of toys from Kinder Surprise Eggs on a filling cabinet near my desk. Kinder Surprise are chocolate eggs with toys inside them that I can only get when I’m visiting Canada.
I never wear my glasses, but I threw out my contacts without finding replacements. So I wore my glasses to work today. It was pouring rain out so I had to workout on the treadmill where I actually took off my glasses to run. I was strange running blind.
I got back home to New Hampshire on Saturday night. Sunday morning I was out ice climbing with my husband at Rumney. I didn’t do a lot of runs but I was happy to just get out and try it again. It took me a few tries to remember some ice climbing technique, but I think I made good progress. I’m looking forward to getting out again.
My friends Shane and Mary had the first kid in our group of friends. He was actually a week late. But luckily he was born the evening of the day before I had to go home. So I stopped by to see him before heading back to the airport.
Such tiny little fingers and toes.
The town in Ontario where my parents live is very flat compared to New Hampshire. I find it a little strange to not have hills in the distance, but it does make for great sunsets.
I ran 13.2 miles to take this picture. It’s a statue of a rower by the rowing course where I rowed in high school. I decided that I wanted to take a picture of this statue for a blog post and my parents had just given me my new Garmin Forerunner 305, so I took it for a test run. It turns out that his statue was in the center of an almost perfect half-marathon loop.
While waiting for my flight to Buffalo I wanted to take a picture of the plane I was about to take off in. Instead I got this neat reflection combination. We didn’t end up taking that plane anyways, the plane had mechanical issues so we had to take another one instead.
On my way to yoga this morning I grabbed my watch off the floor. I didn’t realise until I was in the shower that my pup, Cooper, had chewed it until it was destroyed.
The snowstorm in Manchester on Martin Luther King day made for very sticky snow. The snow stuck to the screen of the windows at work. It made some interesting patterns.
My hubby and I took the afternoon to go play at our local Climbing Gym Vertical Dreams. I tweaked my hand in a fall so I didn’t get to climb as much as I wanted to, but it still was fun. I started playing with taking pictures of climbing holds using macro closeups and near the wall angles.
I came home from my snowshoe race with one goal in mind, to bring my dog to the beach. I love where I live for it’s location. The beach isn’t next door, but it’s 45 minutes from some wonderfully fun beaches. With the seawall it’s one of the safer places I know to let my pup run off leash like an idiot.
These pictures were taken on the part of Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, North of Boar’s head.
