Blooming cherries and melting icecream

Summer ends when you put your feet in the water,  but it looks delicious nevertheless

Spring is here. Well actually no, I think we just skipped spring and went straight to summer. In mid march. It was 27 degrees C outside last week and today me and Anna have been frolicking in shorts at Baltimore waterfront. Last year they had snow here about this time of the year.. Even my colleges at NOAA seems confused judged by the conversations in the elevator.

Picnic today at Baltimore waterfront in perfect Swedish summer weather, if
only Baltimore could stay like this instead of turning into a boiling inferno in summer.... 

In two weeks time go to the Caribbean with NOAA so make sure to check in then and I will try and cover the fun. To get you warmed up I have a video for you that National Geographic recorded of my colleagues when they where down last year doing the same kind of cruise:

National Geographics clip from last years Caribbean cruise with my NOAA Biogeography colleagues

 Some photo highlights from last few weeks life in Baltimore. Enjoy!

Some changes, new wife and a kid.

Early Cherry Blossom bloom at Tidal Basin, DC

Anna and my friend Joanne, visiting from Portland, enjoying DC summerspring

You better watch out!

One year old and already the coolest kid on the block!

Two men, two beards, two hats

Flowers in bloom outside NOAA in early March.
My cube is somewhere up there, well hidden from any distracting view... 

Mexican after work with colleges from Biogeography, a good crowd!

I shouldn't need to clarify this. Clearly you see that this is a map of Scandinavia
with Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and our neighbors Germany, Poland,
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Mother Russia. All with their own tortilla chip!
Finally I could enlighten my colleges about homeland ocean geography.  

Even Hopkins people get out sometimes, this time
lured by the local winery at Sugerloaf mountain.

Many has woken up from winter slumber

Tripper at Gunpowder river, falling for peer pressure!

Beautiful sunny day at Gunpowder, but the water...

....is really cold still!

It looks so nice to float down the rapids

Next time we might have to go kayaking too..

Pretty boy dam and a new born fly fishermen

In the afternoon the trouts started to warm up and we had some action

Tripper did well learning how to flyfish, looking like a pro!

The biggest ones got away...