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Beautiful morning for Christmas time #birding in Connecticut

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In case you are wondering how to describe extended family relations, here’s a diagram: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin

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The Amalfi Coast is a beautiful section of coastline on Italy’s western shore one providence south of Rome. Its steep hill produces great views pretty much anywhere you stay. We chose to stay in this region for the solo-anniversary portion of our trip based on several recommendations we had heard....

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A Change of Plans After our honeymoon in Cancun, Bekah and I started saving for our 5-year anniversary trip to Hawaii because we really enjoyed the chance to travel to beautiful places together. Five years and half a dozen countries later, we were still planning on taking that 5-year anniversary...

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Water in the desert

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Happy Bekah-birthday to my beautiful wife. I am grateful for the way you remind me to enjoy life and try new things. I see how you step up to encourage others and support those others cast aside. I hope you never lose your motivation to make the world a better...

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This year I was able to attend JSConf US 2019 as a representative of SitePen. It was a very fun conference where people showed off the cool things they were building with JavaScript. There was a workshop day where I was able to program a microcontroller running Node. There were...

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I’m enjoying the raspberries we picked up in Oak Glenn for lunch today along with fresh cider. I’m pretending it’s fall even though we still are topping 100 °F.

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I took some time to write about Peru this weekend. It has been fun to think about all the cool places we were able to see. Hoping to share some stories soon.

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Just a few kids checking out the new attractions at Disneyland.

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@bekahbugs and I really enjoyed walking down the beach and getting Shake Shack shakes at Crystal Cove state park near Laguna Beach. Saw quite a few new birds like this Black-bellied Plover down by the seashore. Totally worth getting sunburned 😎😬

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Brought in some of my plants that weren’t doing so well in the 115° F (46° C) heat today. Also bought another kalanchoe plant. I need to figure out how the nurseries keep them from sprawling out.

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I love this little collection of plants against this tree trunk.

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• Guatemala
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The Catholic churches in Antigua were all beautifully decorated and with yellow and white like this. They often were near more open spaces where people would spill out after mass and where vendors would be selling street food.

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Iconic Antigua Guatemala’s Santa Catalina Arch

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