train ride to new london

 

i took the amtrak train to connecticut to see my sister on wednesday and greg joined us yesterday. i'll post more about it soon. it was a fun train ride and the scenery was particularly beautiful as we grew closer to new london and came along the coast by old saybrook.

leaving penn station . . 

long island sound would be beyond the trees in the distance . . 

crossing the connecticut river . . 

coming into new london . .

pulling into the station . . after deboarding, we had to wait for the train to leave before we could cross the tracks to enter the station house.

the station was . . fancy! 

and even had a nice cafe with a barista in vintage cap and vest . . 

outside was a fountain in the shape of moby's tail . . 

i walked to the side of the building to get a photo of the tracks i had to cross (all passengers waited on the other side of those train track signals). the brick building you see to the right is the ferry terminal for fishers island. the cross sound ferries are out of the picture on the left.

the white cylinders you see are part of the large posts (i think the bottom half) for the wind turbines that have been sunk into the sea by block island.

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here's one of the large cross sound ferries loading cars for the trip across. i've taken this ferry quite a number of times.

kathy and warren picked me up in front of the train station. it was such a fun trip, and different. it was the first time taking the train to new london for me . . and i was looking forward to visiting with them in connecticut.

i'll write more about days by the lake soon!

cats in the way (and lunch with greg)

 

sometimes it's hard to get any work done . . if zuzu isn't knocking my hand holding the pen, then cricket is continually jumping onto my lap and turning in circles: looking at me and then looking at what i'm trying to do. he can't sit still.

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here's a little coffee and leftover biscotti (from the weekend ride home) that i had after finally being able to finish the postcard writing.

 and greg worked from home today so we went together to have lunch at kawa.

the rest of the weekend

 

it's late now on monday night . . here's a peek at the rest of the weekend (we arrived late saturday night) . . 

swimming and floating and a picnic at the bay on sunday . . 

diinner at our favorite place, followed by a game of yahtzee and ice cream for dessert . . (adam had an event he was working at) . . 

(korrina was happy to roll a yahtzee)

(chanda was unhappy about not rolling a yahtzee, and greg was happy to roll a yahtzee, but was unable to use it as he had taken a zero in that category . . !)

i love hearing the crickets and nighttime insects . . 

this morning was another day of swimming at the bay . . 

last year around the exact same time in august, i also drew a view of the bay . . i guess i can draw this view over and over and never tire of it!

home again . . (dropping korrina off first)

saturday memorial

it was a busy weekend. greg, chanda and i picked up korrina in queens and then drove out to long island for my friend's memorial with her family. we lost our dear friend lizette to cancer on june 6th. i've been so sad about it, that it's been difficult to write about . . and it felt strange at the memorial today. i kept expecting her to walk in with her smile . . it feels odd not to be planning a walk across the bridge for a visit with her in brooklyn heights.

in her beautiful beach home on rockaway, where we spent many happy afternoons.

homeschooling moms . .

with marisa at the memorial . .

chanda took this photo of her friend sami's new little girl, named for her grandma. she was born june 27th. 

lizette in her favorite place at the beach in rockaway in july of 2008 . .

and the two of us in 2023 in front of our favorite health food store in brooklyn.

lizette was my birth year buddy. she was born five months after me in 1961. i didn't think she would go so soon. we all thought we still had years together. we miss you lizette.