Irene

Today Irene visited us. We stayed inside for most of the day, so Madeline played on her quilt ...

... and played on her quilt (bppft!) ...

... and played on her quilt.

We kept getting reports of spreading power outages -- over half the state at one point -- and so hovered in a state of preparedness until the storm passed and nothing much had happened. Around 6:30, we headed outside to see how the neighborhood had fared.

A tree on our block had been uprooted and knocked out some wires; crews were already working to clear up the mess.

And that was the scene pretty much every few blocks.

Lots of debris and lots of beautiful trees pinning power lines against yards and houses. Plus the whole neighborhood wandering around taking it all in.

Now Irene's visiting New Hampshire on its way to Canada, and Rhode Island should be more or less back to normal.