Summertime!

Soccer at Jackson's

Painted turtles

Odiorne Point State Park

Sculpture in Cambridge

Red eft at Mt. Monadnock 

Pretty moth in Naples, ME

My brother, Ben, swimming 1/2 mile across Long Lake for triathlon training while we escort

Huge beautiful luna moth in Maine

A baby bunny outside my house

Watching the Joy Formidable in Providence, one of my favorite bands.

The Airborne Toxic Even in Providence

Boston for the day with Jackson for his 21st birthday

Jackson bought me tickets to see The Joy Formidable in Boston for my birthday, but the concert was April 19th, the day of the lockdown, so it was rescheduled to June 20.. Which means I saw this band two nights in a row, the night before as a backup in Providence to Airborne. She is great live!

Capturing beauty on the glaciers

Tomorrow I leave for my 4th field season with the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project! This year I will be doing some of my own measurements - of crevasses! - as a research project for credit at UMaine. I put an image of my project hypothesis below. Also, I can't wait to use my little field sketchbook again - I am bringing up both watercolors and colored pencils and will alternate packing one or the other in at different glaciers. I look forward to posting pictures and sketches when I return on August 17th : >

Crevasse areas I will be measuring on the Easton Glacier on Mt. Baker

Various members of the team!

Probing for snow depth

Camp!

Seracs!

Mt. Baker <3

QUANTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS OF CREVASSES:

Ice Spidey

Storm's prowess over the elements + Batman's genius

Sometimes people have a strong preference for Marvel or DC, but I honestly love characters and stories from both. When I was home at the beginning of the summer I created these three superheroes by pairing a character from DC with one from Marvel. I chose them based on the people I did them for. Above is a Storm - Batman combo I drew for my sister, and I also did a Spiderman - Ice girl for myself, and a Green Lantern - Wolverine combination for Jackson. I'm sure it is a blast coming up with your own superheroes as well!

Spiderman's web + Ice's control over the snow and ice

Green lantern's marvelous ring + Wolvering fearsome claws

 Megan brought home mini- canvases (about 2 by 3 inches) and these are 2 of the 5 that I painted.

Funny- looking fella (the smile..?)

I have done these funny guys - faceless, with fiery hair - for years. Who are they, though?

Kitty Comic

For Jackson's 20th birthday on June 20th I stayed at his house for the week. I sat down to make his birthday card beforehand, and it ended up becoming a whole comic book. My roommate, Robyn, makes really cute sock cats, and she made one for both me and Jackson during the school year! I decided to do a little comic-card using the two cats as the characters :-)

I used water color paper and water color paints to fill in the comic I had drawn and inked. I then lined up holes to hole-punch and tied them with some string to make the book!! It was super fun to do, and Jackson loved it! The book is around 5 by 6 inches I believe.

Longboarding! Jackon taught me to do this at school and gave me one for my 19th birthday in April! This is on of the extended panels with a fold so it fits in the book.

This was a joke because one of the clues in the scavenger hunt I mention in my previous past said something along these lines, and Jackson didn't get it at all.

I made this as a thank-you card for letting me stay the week! We went paddle boarding at my family's place on Long Lake in Maine, and we went camping when I stayed at Jackson's, at a little island in front of his house on Webber Pond.

My favorite scene in this

Thank you Jackson!

Back to the snow

I have been away most of the summer, either in Maine or Michigan, and I'm leaving for the North Cascades for my third field season with the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project early tomorrow morning! After that, I only have a little over a week until I will go up to Maine for school :-)

some type of water-snake in Lake Dennison

Macatawa, MI

Long Lake, ME

Niagra Falls

a wet walkway in Niagra

Sunset over Lake Michigan

the pit

Niagra

Sand Dune right off of Lake Michigan

Sail boat race on Lake Michigan

Me and Megan on the red right-hand pier "tower"

Baby otters playing