Easter In Duxbury

We hope that your bunny is as generous as ours.

We clicked the camera a few times as we drove around Duxbury.

Forsythia, for you.

"Cherry Blossom" is Treespeak for "Easter."

I'm not that religious, so Easter is more of a spring thing for me, hence all the flowers.

Parkin' on your curb, takin' pictures of your flowers...

I like to get pictures of a second cherry blossom tree, let her slug it out with the other one.

You have to come correct on Easter with the Big Kat.

Time to head to the beach.

It was a foggy day, with visibility low enough that we had to get most of the way across in order to have something other than a grey wall of fog in the background.

Fog was rolling in off and on, lowering visibility to about 150 yards. We mention this because, when someone says "Easter," you immediately think "I wonder what the sea level coastal visibility was at 10:34 AM."

Surf Check! There actually was a coastal flood statement on my weather thingy, but that was South Coast. This was the biggest wave that I saw in Duxbury.

I don't really like kids all that much, and I like taking creepy stalker pics even less... but that is a cute family.

Gotta head back to town to check something...

Draco had a baby!

Easter is probably the wrong time to point out that "draco" is Latin for "giant serpent." They would apply this term to any large reptile, and not necessarily a myth/monster. I don't know how many anacondas Julius Caesar ran across, but I know he called it a draco.

My Latin is dodgy, but most of us know this term by the Romanian dracul, which totally means "dragon." Vlad Tepes, aka Vlad The Impaler, was the son of a guy known as Dracul, the Dragon. The diminutive of that is Dracula, sort of the Bobby to the Bob for bloodthirsty Carpathian warlords. This name was jacked by Bram Stoker for his infamous vampire novel.

Either way, Baby Draco may actually be a Dracula. Trying the "it's a girl dragon" dodge gives us Draculetta, which I'm pretty sure is a porno flick. Trying to Latinize it gives us Dracola, which sounds like those lozenges you take for a sore throat that lets you yodel after. That's worse than the ghoul name, if you ask me.