perry and i went mushrooming today. we found red chanterelles and toads! 

i start school tomorrow. eeeeeeep!

new and improved chanterelle badge!

mose put out a tape and made these really pretty casings for them usin' my picture! they turned out really great. you can get your hands on one here.

that's about as ~artistically~ productive as i've been. get it? get it? because i didn't actually do anything for that? yep. school starts in a week and i really hope i feel like making art by then.

elliott's new favorite spot.  

that's perry catching his first fish here. this is him being bummed that it was a largemouth bass:

pumpkinseed!

rock bass!

tiniest toad ever!

we made it to maryland.  boy, cat, pacman frog, and (two!) baby toads included.  i was sure elliott was going to die on the plane ride (he was drugged and looked awful).  i spent the entire six and a half hour flight watching his fur closely through the carrier trying to figure out if he was still breathing or not.  he's completely fine now.  very cuddly and well adjusted.

we had an incredibly good start to our new adventure.  in bethesda, MD (where we are staying with my aunt) we (perry) spotted: an american toad, smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, a brown water snake, a snapping turtle, red eared turtles, sun fish, bluegill, a skink, turkey tails, cup fungus, a sugino tourny crankset (found in the creek behind my aunt's house?!), lamb's quarters, and  a great blue heron.  in baltimore, MD, we found purslane and shaggy manes (mushrooms!  edible, delicious ones right by my school!).  

we also got the keys to our new apartment.  it's a pretty darn good one and we're paying half as much as we were.  

yessssssssss.