Jersey Wedding

Last week, Tawna and I headed east to Washington D.C., up the Jersey coast, to New York, and to our friend's Kyle and Julie's wedding. It was 85 degrees in D.C., and a beautiful full moon first evening on the Mall.





Even though the Jersey shore had never jumped out as a wildlife spot, we found some tranquility and an abundance of birds around Cape May and at the Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge just north of Atlantic City. We saw 50 species of bird in just 24 hours or so including a favorite, the black skimmer (a borrowed photo).



The wedding was beautiful, the ceremony outside narrowly missing the thunder and lightning. The 8-strong Alaska contingent made healthy inroads into the libations after the rabbi deemed our home state a "god-forsaken land."