It's been a while

I have been getting a lot of questions lately... why haven't you published to your blog lately? Here is where my attention has been over the last month.
1. War
2. Peace
3. War and Peace
4. The beach... a sunburn
5. an amazon kindle
6. the girls from church
7. Leaving for lake powell August 14.
8. Rescuing random things from the clutches tiny hands.
9. Alex's birthday video and book
10. Watermelon... how long can it sit in your fridge until it's bad for you?
11. Patrick without homework
12. wondering where Heather and Taryn have gone
13. wondering how many miles mom has put on her bike
14. the color red
15. this
16. that
16.the other
17. missing my family
18. Soldiers Field Park the novel
19. Novartis
20. youth
21. Beauty
22. Youth and Beauty
23. our new air conditioner
24. Mount Monadnock
25. camping
26. leaving my camera in Meredith's beach bag
27. lobster rolls
26. everyone else's blogs

Any way, I have still been reading everyone else's blog. So I feel a little bit like I am cheating. I know all about Heather's birthday and Catherine's book review. I have been taking without giving. So, I am going to post a random recent picture just so I feel like I am contributing a little bit. Here you go!