Overland Ev@c Drill Pt 2

Well, I made it to Tblisi! It's been a whirlwind trip, and we only got one evening out on the town, but it's a pretty enough capital- I understand why so many PC Armenia volunteers vacation here. 

Macro Lens in North Stonington

I'm obsessed by the small secrete worlds, the riots of color and contrast, the beautiful and bizarre creatures you can find if you look closely enough at nature. Which is to say that I took the macro lens for a spin in North Stonington a few days ago, and here are the results:

North Stonington

The mothers joined us for a trip to visit North Stonington today. Remembering the hard work that's yet to be done tearing up sod in the Sisian garden, we put black plastic down on an area of the field where we'll start the North Stonington garden when we get back.

We also took some time to walk in the woods, and it was good be be surrounded by trees again. I don't think we realized just how comfortable New England landscapes are for us until we were suddenly surrounded by them again.

It was a really nice day, and I'm really happy that we'll have this adventure ready and waiting for us when we finish our Peace Corps service.

New Macro Lens!!!

I have a great family. The reason I bring it up now is because in addition to visiting them, I got a gift from my aunt of a new lens for my camera- erm- I mean iPhone. The lens gets really close up, and I'm super excited about it. Here are a few of the secret tiny worlds that I found in the front yard this morning:

Back Home (for a week)

We're back in the States for a week. We cane back to be part of a wedding- and that was really marvelous. We love the friends who got hitched, their wedding was touching and beautiful, and it was fantastic to see so many friends from college who were there.

Now we're back at our parents houses, just like before we left for the Peace Corps. We're running around doing errands and visiting family non-stop, but by far the best part of the trip now is going to be visiting with out dog, Scuppers.