We have seen some wonderful views walking around the lake in the last hour or half hour before the sun sets. I feel fortunate to be here in this place, with these people.
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our photos lately
Storms a comin’.
Getting out while we can!
Music all day every day. Listening, playing, singing!
“Mama is this is like a tree?”
Being bird lovers.
Lots of reading! We have a great many books at home as well as books borrowed from three different branches of the libraries that we visit.
Stollen bread, freshly baked from a cute bakery nearby called Boniere.
Visiting Berkeley and a few of our favorite places, like Cafe Clem, the downtown library and Berkeley Bowl!
playing in the park
I love watching Emma and maiki play together. It is so sweet and full of giggles.
This grove of trees is close to where we live and was the first part of Lake Merritt that I saw when we were hunting for apartments last year. The area around the lake looked better and better the more we explored and I am glad that we made the decision to move here. Happy one year in Oakland! ^_^
walk around the lake
The other day we decided to take a walk around the lake. We had loose plans and enjoyed a slow pace.
Emma was hungry as soon as we left the house. Luckily she found a bag of dried fruit in the stroller. Its hard to keep up with this growing kid!
Snow Geese, like the fellows with their popsicle carts, are never too far away when you visit Lake Merritt.
I like to think that this is what one sees when they look through. Emma is short so she only sees the sky.
We stopped at a thrift store and bought Em a dress and me pants and a wool coat (that I tried to hand wash—story for another day). Also shopped at Lucky’s for lunch and more yeast packets to make bread!
Our picnic consisted of almond butter, rice cakes and carrots. Yum!
pelicans
These pelicans are super cool to see at Lake Merritt! There is one resident pelican and it cannot fly so its friends come over to visit her. Clover and I love visiting all the birds but the pelicans and egrets are my favorite, probably because they are pretty large birds. I love the picture with the pelican and Emma that shows off their size (the pelican is on higher ground by the way). ^_^
