No rainbow but a pretty nice sunrise Everything in the bedroom

More aquatic adventures for Jean and me this morning but not the fun kind. We woke around 4am to a very soft, very persistent knocking. "That's not our door is it?" Jean asked. I got up and stuck my head out of our bedroom door. "Yeah, I think it is." I rustled around in my drawer for a t-shirt and padded out into the living room. The air was balmy and the windows had fogged up. "Just a moment," I said as I wrestled on my shirt. Opening the front door I was met by a gangly young man with long blonde hair. The man spoke with a Nordic accent. He apologized for the early call. "I felt a drip-drip-drip." he said, "Is the leak coming from your apartment or the one above." Flipping on the overhead light I turned around to see a dark stain advancing across the carpet. "I think it's coming from ours." Squishing around the corner to the kitchen I sloshed into the a sea of tepid water that covered the kitchen floor. His...

High winds preempted our long planned boat trip out to go looking for humpback whales this past Saturday. So, here are some are pictures from our whale watching trip last year. Particularly cool is some video Jean caught of a particularly boisterous character doing a series of head breaches.