now this is more like august

This month has been unseasonably cool and unbelievably rainy. You may have caught some of that on the news a week ago, when a piece of Route 125 in Freeport caved in a washed away. The mighty Androscoggin River is running about as high as it was in April after the snowmelt.

We spent two days of the rainy-ness up on Lake Sysladobsis with our friends, Sam and Jane, and their daughters, Sara and Amy. The rent a cabin every summer with some of their post-college pals and party well into the evenings. We had a wonderful, if wettish, time.

After that, Yeye and Nainai came for a week-long visit. Binbin was treated to...well all sorts of treats. We have photos from that visit, but they're on a different camera.

For now, I'm posting snapshots from yesterday, probably the most beautiful day we've enjoyed this month, and we were very lucky to have a sail in a boat captained by Binbin's favorite babysitter, Jess.

Binbin was very brave, and climbed right on in, despite the "wiggliness" of the waves rocking the boat.



He especially enjoyed going in and out of the cabin, which he called "the cave".



I was happy to be in a picture with my little guy...he's getting to be so grown-up!



And, here's a pic of Jack and Jess.



And, just to prove that the sun really does shine in Portland...Isn't this beautiful?! It just about makes up for the other 300 days of snow, slush, mud, clouds, rain, humidity, what-have-you!