My friend Aggie

Introducing my lovely friend Aggie, a fish crow. 

She likes to play “keep away” with sticks. 

She sometimes shares stuff with me - half a dead hornet, a quartz pebble, a yellow tulip poplar leaf, an acorn. Then she wants them back.

Cracks me up. 

Aggie is a sweet, energetic, funny, bright, and social creature. 

She’s a rescue crow who lives in a quite large well-kept enclosure behind the Long Branch Nature Center, near my house. 

I visit her almost every day. 

I am learning to speak a bit of crow. 

Aggie doesn’t seem interested in learning English. I get it.

Tine's party in NYC

Ruth and I went to New York last weekend to help celebrate our friend Tine Kindermann's 60th birthday. Lots of klezmer folks were around: Pete Rushevsky, Zalman Mlotek, Sarah Gordon, Lorin Sklamberg, Lisa Gutkin, Steve Weintraub, Joanne Borts, Jeff Toretsky, and probably a bunch of others I missed in the swirl of the festivities. Of course, her husband Frank London was vibing big time. It was great to see their kids, Louis and Anna (and to encounter some of her massive doll head pieces (Tine's a terrific artist). A freylikhe time was had by all.

Enjoy.

Lake Fairfax Park with friends

 Ruth and I went on a picnic with a dear friend and her lovely lively daughter.

First 17-year locust we saw

Family vacation - Mountain Springs Lake, Poconos

The crew and doings on our lovely brief vacation at Mountain Springs Lake in the Poconos mountains area Pennsylvania.

Marjorie, Miz Adele, and Sean Miller, Drew Stromberg, me and Ruth, and the indomitable Daniel Shanahan,