fourth of July from Brooklyn,

these are from my fourth of july, totally different then Briana's weekend, with the nephews and nature. . . . we had a bbq in the back yard, and even Brown Bear passed out from the sunny day and too much beer. . . 

tibor on his island

jeffrey goes for a swim

instead, we used the little blow up pool and my hat to fill this little rock crevice with water.

due to a very belated application of sunscreen, jeff and i swam the boys over to the shady side of the river and he swam back to constuct this fancy shady shelter.

you can see a little blow up pool in the top picture. the boys were not so sure about the river and so jeff was trying to find a flat spot to fill this with water so they could splash around.

there were no flat spots.

a lovely end to my beautiful summer vacation weekend

our gorgeous, i mean handsome, nephews at the washougal river.

the next day

i was eating breakfast (potatoes from our garden, sauteed with that lovely arugula and a fried egg) when our brother called to see if i wanted to go to the river. hell ya!