Salt & Straw

 

 We've been making a weekly pilgrimage to Salt & Straw for ice-cream every Friday afternoon to ring in the weekend

 The goods

 Double-Fold Vanilla

 Alas, these lovely autumn colors will surely bring colder weather, and with it an end to our ice-cream cravings

Short Sands (aka Smugglers Cove)

The trail from the car-park down to the beach carves it's way  through a lovely old forest

Which opens on to the sheltered cove, with mellow, albeit chilly, waves

Battered and blustered

Then on to Camp 18 for a well earned pint

Horsetail Falls

Hummingbird

This hummingbird has been visiting the salvia in front of Anette's house on a daily basis. Long may it last

First day of school!

 Here's Lucius heading out for her first day of school...

...where a nice sign was waiting to greet her

 Home time
(Her amazing teacher Monica is on the left)

Every day ends with a long play in the garden, before we have to drag her away