bicycling again . . finally

i finally got out bicycling today with morgana and chanda. it was hot, but fun.

 we stopped just past pier 40 to check out the free kayaking . . 

 a lot of people were out . . 

 hot and hazy . . 

and the sailing ships were out . . 

 the yachts and sailboats have returned to the battery park city harbor.

we read roger lancelyn green's robin hood . .

 we've always called this area "the willows," due to the enormous willow trees that shaded the area. however, today it was more bare and sunny. this willow tree is half dead, and the one to it's right, which you can't see in this picture, had more than half of it's branches trimmed. hurricane sandy fall out . . this neighborhood was flooded (even more so than our's . . the new 1, 2, 3 train station is still boarded up from flood damage) and i imagine the soil changed drastically from the sea water.
 povero trees . .

 we rode home and i made korrina her ravioli from the prior night (which she had missed due to her play). she worked today at the restaurant, came home for dinner, and then went right out again to the theatre. morgana worked on her roman history essay . .

 and chanda included "latin phrases" in her lesson book. greg and i dusted all the bookshelves . . which entailed taking all the books down and dusting each one off . . we were all sneezing from the dust that went flying around . .

they look so big lounging in their new reading corner . .