Somers removing the lid of an inspection tank to let a frog escape as fast as Elsa can run up from the pond with replacements near our rented cottage in Bar Harbor, where Elsa attended some courses at College of the Atlantic and I communed with the whale experts at Allied Whale.

Elsa is in the scrapbook club at school and selected these photos of her summer holidays for her scrapbook.

Elsa and Somers in the Bar Harbor Whale Museum left and right Somers in the acoustic studio listening and watching the spectrogram of an orca.

Above left, back at the pond where Elsa does the Prince test and kisses a frog. Alas, no prince and so the frog is free to go.

Elsa and Somers at the museum at College of the Atlantic and right, Somers listening to the acoustics of whales once again at the Whale Museum.

Left above, Elsa catching critters while Somers studies her technique. The only thing Somers seemed to catch was herself.

Somers eats her meal, left above, while Elsa gives hers away to a friend, net of course, always in hand.

Elsa back at her pond looking for frogs and Somers kissing a mackerel to see if it turns into...?

Elsa and Somers looking for whales left and feeding a horse, above right.

And for something completely different, I took Elsa up in a glider left, and right, a proud Elsa in the cockpit of a bi-plane.