Hi, everyone!
On Sunday I had lots of fun at the bay! In the morning, Grandma took me out in the kayak to see my flower friends in the wetlands. The rose mallows just started blooming last week, and they are very pretty right now.
I made some new flower friends, too! Grandma says these flowers are called buttonbush. I don’t remember ever seeing them in bloom before. I think I would remember them if I had seen them before, because they are very unusual! While I was making friends with the buttonbush flowers, something else unusual flew right overhead! Grandma says it’s called an ultralight airplane.
While I was enjoying the pretty flowers, I saw something ugly floating in the water nearby. Why would anybody throw a drink can in the bay, instead of taking care of it properly? If I knew who did it, I would roar at them! Grandma and I picked this one up and we’ll take it to be recycled.
After we visited my flower friends in the wetlands, we kayaked on a little creek farther south on the bay. Grandma says this creek doesn’t have a name because it doesn’t always have water in it. Right now it has water and lots of duck weed and some pretty bullhead lilies. My green heron friend lives here, too! I wonder if anybody would mind if I called this creek Lion-san Creek?
After lunch, I was hoping Grandma and Grandpa would take me for a sail, but the wind wasn’t quite right. So Grandpa and I spent the afternoon sitting on the porch, watching the water and the birds. There’s a young eagle flying around, but I haven’t had a chance to make friends yet. We can hear the eagle calling from the trees nearby!
We did go to the Point to watch the sun set. There is smoke in the air because of forest fires in Canada, so the sunsets are particularly red. We walked out to the lighthouse, and we had lots of company from other people with the same idea! Grandpa made sure I didn’t fall off the railing while I watched sun go down from there. It was very pretty!
Right after the sun went down, we turned around to watch the moon come up! The moon is as close to earth as it gets right now, so this full moon and the last one look really big in the sky. When the moon is first rising, the smoke in the air makes it look very orange. Since we stayed to watch the moon rise, it was later than usual when we left the Point. Isn’t the moon in the dark sky over Charles Point pretty?
Love,
Lion-san
Those rose mallow flowers are pretty. Could we have some in our garden rather than in water? We saw some on someone’s desk but they didn’t know what they were.
We had a bad week here last week. First we lost power but not for long and we were walking anyway, then we had a thunder storm and lighting struck a sailboat on the lake and a camp. The camp burned inside before the firemen came so it looked awful the next day on our walk.
It has been nice since then.
I’m sorry you had a bad week! Grandma says the rose mallows are relatives of hollyhocks and hibiscus. She thinks they only grow in wetlands, but you could have hollyhocks in your garden.