When the retired Newton art teachers got together with their old boss earlier this year, they planned to meet again for lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Falmouth. That was for today.
We drove down there about an hour earlier than we had to, so as to have a little time birding around Falmouth. Siders Pond is one of the best spots in Eastern Massachusetts for ducks in the middle of winter, because it hardly ever freezes. Birds looking for open water end up in it. This, you probably noticed, isn’t the middle of winter yet. There wasn’t much on Siders. Besides that, the wind was blowing towards where we were, on the back yard of the town hall. It was the last place birds trying to stay out of the wind would want to be. We walked around the Salt Ponds area on the bike path a little and saw lots of hooded mergansers, some goldeneyes (I think — they were pretty far away) and a few loons; also a cardinal that was closer than we’ve ever been to a cardinal except one at a bird feeder.
All of the fourteen people at lunch ordered a main dish. We passed them all around and, to everyone’s surprise, finished most of them. Then we went over to Susan’s house for dessert.
Here are several of the main characters — Susan, old boss Al, Pauline, and Carolyn. Those are Susan’s paintings on the walls.
Charley took a picture of himself in his new lopi sweater. As you would hope from a professional photographer, the picture is a lot better than the one I took yesterday:
Very nice job on the lopi sweater. His photography does do it justice. hope all is well, Judy.