Young Adventurer plays piano at the mall

The first piece is Waterfall by Jon Schmidt, and the second is Sonata Op. 49 No. 2 by Beethoven.

Salutatorian Speech

As Flickr won't let me upload a four minute video on my free account, here is THE SALUTATORIAN SPEECH in all it's completeness. It's definitely better with the end left on.

Sunset, and playing in the leaves, because it's fall here, in winter

Young Adventurer's recent adventures

Young Adventurer played in his school orchestra Christmas concert this week. He played with the 7th grade orchestra and as part of this quintet. The same day he ran in his first cross country meet.

started strong

Finished strong

This week's wildlife

Found the snake in the backyard, the rest were at the Riparian Preserve. Can you spot the non-native species?? :-)