One of my favorite things in life is to go to Quincy and board the Harbor Express, glide into Boston, have dinner, and come back in sunset.  Susan and I did just that today, meeting one of my oldest friends, Louis Stewart, conductor, composer, pianist, and Berklee faculty.  We walked from Long Wharf over to Legal Seafood, had a wonderful meal, and returned on the Ferry back to Quincy. 
The city and the harbour are one of the reasons I feel so priviledged to live where I do 

Herring Gull

Cormorant

Ah, to be young....

This is the largest private yacht I think I have ever seen in Boston.
Easily double the size of the next size down.

The Custom House where Susan and I spent the night for her 60th. birthday.

One of the most beautiful boat in the harbour, always moored right across from the Harbor Express birth.
Could it be a Crosby?

and the trip back home.....

For the first time since July 15th, the day before my hip replacement, I drove down to Duxbury Beach on Monday, for some birding!  What a feeling.  With all the physical therapy, and my following up everyday with the exercises, my recovery is going first rate. Here are some pictures for the morning.

A Kestrel!  Not a common sight today, and the only shot I could get before he flew.

Ruddy Turnstone turning stones

This Laughing Gull was determined to get the food away from the Plover, but the plover refused.



Least Tern



This Red Tail was right at the entrance to Oak Point where I live. Just capping off a great morning

My first blog in over two weeks.  Metal hip replacement (they call it a "revision") does intefere with life as we know it.  But the surgery was very successful, I did rehab for 10 days, and now am home, really happy about it, and anxious to get busy on the home physical therapy to get back as close to mormal, and as quickly as I can.
Desperate to use a camera, I walked out into the yard and shot a few shots, and here they are.

This little fly is about 1/16th of an inch