…… We walk so you don’t have to

First, a stop at a cafe in Bristol. Oddly almost all women. Good food but far too noisy. 78-80 db according to watch

Colt State Park. Large, family oriented, paved walking and bike paths. No rocks or roots. Bay to Bay; Narragansett Bay to Bristol.

First thing we see is a vulture devouring some prey.

Next, we see ospreys and an osprey nest with a little one inside. Hard to get a good shot.

Colt State park given to the state by a farm owner who raised champion cows.

Lots of water

Question for the research staff: there are wonderful rock walls all over RI. Lots of labor to put them together. Where did all the rocks come from? From the cleared fields? Other?

Fab lobster bake at Marcia’s home. Marcia is a cooking powerhouse. Feed six, sure, more show up, easy, still plenty. And so good.

KB a bit piggy. Gobbled two, yes two Lobstah, one and a half pounders! Oink!

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Three large steaming pots greeted us. Red potatoes, corn, wine, salad, watermelon. Perfect table setting, as well.

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Walk in Norman Bird Sanctuary followed by strawberry picking at Quonset Farms.

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It did not start out this way. QB wanted to swim and I wanted a walk so I took off along the rail tracks to see where they went when heading north (yes I could have used maps but…)

From the tracks near the Newport Beach club I saw a sign.

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Naturally had to see where it went. It went quite well. Headed along the coast with beach access for several. First along a sandy patch and then to the coast.

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Below one using the beach. Were a few in the water but did not take their pictures. Mostly teens.

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Slightly challenging roots and rocks and mud walk in Tiverton. Fort Barton was the staging for the battle of Rhode Island, an unsuccessful battle from the Colony.

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Did not bother with the root, rocks or mud. Long history of those

Finished off the walk with a visit to Coastal Roasters.

Almost Memorial Day.

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Started booking flights for our pilgram trip to Spain. Found an outstanding bargin! Mint class Jet Blue all the way to Grenada: $610 for all flights. Naturally booked.

Then, when I told M&G about the great bargain they started laughing. Granada or Grenada? OOps….This will be an EFG on me forever and forever. Naturally had to cancel the res and start looking for different routing.

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We have been waiting for a time to have lobster. Only a few good choices near here and either the weather too cold/windy or places closed on multiple days. Today is the day!

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Visited the Newport Lobster Shack on the docks in Newport downtown.

Finished off at Newport Creamery to “gild the lily” with ice cream. A perfect finish to perfect lobsters.

A roots a rocks walk, an outstanding one, in and area named after Weetomoo, a female leader of one of the main combatants in King Phillips war (17th century New England).

Many intersecting trails. Many roots and rocks.

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Trail shots

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Afterwards coffee at Coastal Roasters as Groundswell was closed. Good place, we will return

At de Wolf for a nice breakfast get together. Fine Mimosas and shatshukas.

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Finished reading Nicole Perlroth’s monumental study of cyber over the past few decades. “ This is how they tell me the world ends”

It is the history of the people and story of the cyberweapons arms race. Thrilling read for those inclined to such history.

Just a few snippets, far too many as this is a long book; the third is fun for Palo Alto locals.

There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear. There’s a man with a gun over there Telling me I got to beware I think it’s time we stop, children, what’s that sound, Everybody look what’s going down —BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. McConnell made clear that he would not advance any election security bill, no matter how bipartisan. Even measures deemed critical by election integrity experts—paper trails for every ballot and rigorous post-election audits, bills that blocked voting machines from reaching out to the web and required campaigns to report foreign outreach—died on McConnell’s desk. It was only after critics took to calling him “Moscow Mitch” that McConnell begrudgingly approved $250 million

Stanford’s campus was dry. Under the deed of Leland Stanford, no alcohol could be served on campus or even in Palo Alto, and administrators worried about the flocks of students getting drunk down the road. Stanford’s first president had lobbied unsuccessfully to shut Zott’s down, calling it “unusually vile even for a roadhouse.

a rogue actor or nation-state to sabotage the software embedded in the Boeing 737 Max than it is for terrorists to hijack planes and send them careening into buildings. Threats that were only hypotheticals a decade ago are now very real. Russia proved it can turn off power in the dead of winter. The same Russian hackers who switched off the safety locks at the Saudi petrochemical plant are now doing “digital drive-bys” of American targets. A rudimentary phishing attack arguably changed the course of an American presidential election. We’ve seen patients turned away from hospitals because of a North Korean cyberattack. We’ve caught Iranian hackers rifling through our dams. Our hospitals, towns, cities, and, more recently, our gas pipelines have been held hostage with ransomware. We have caught foreign allies repeatedly using cyber means to spy on and harass innocent civilians, including Americans. And over the course of the coronavirus pandemic, the usual suspects, like China and Iran, and newer players, like Vietnam and South Korea, are targeting the institutions leading our response.

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The photo, the other night at Benjamins. Three dozen each of clams, shrimp and mussels. Extended family group

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Sunset duh.

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