North Carolina Murals

A few murals to share with Sami and the many bloggers who post photos of street art and other wall paintings each week at https://sami-colourfulworld.blogspot.com/

From our trip last month: this mural was near our hotel in the town of Kill Devil Hill.

A mural near the ferry terminal in Cape Hatteras.

Cape Hatteras.

Cape Hatteras is a Mecca for wind surfers and kite surfers, and we watched them
as they were skillfully being blown into the air.

Mural on the wall of a lovely restaurant where we ate on the last night we were in North Carolina.

… and the dessert selection at the restaurant.

Photos © 2021 mae sander.

November Meals and Kitchen Scenes

New in my kitchen: a tiny ceramic bowl that Evelyn made.
We are now back in Ann Arbor after 10 days of travel.

November Holidays

The highlight of November meals: Thanksgiving Dinner in Fairfax, VA.

A second highlight of November: potato pancakes for Chanukah.
also in Evelyn’s kitchen in Fairfax, VA.

New in My Ann Arbor Kitchen

A new omelet pan

New storage containers:
We discarded many old plastic ones.

A San Francisco potholder: gift from Evelyn’s trip.

A few foods from my Ann Arbor Kitchen.

“National Sandwich Day” — a cracker sandwich.

A cracker sandwich may not technically be a sandwich.
How about tuna sliders? Some people think that a bun cannot make a sandwich.
Sandwich purists insist that the outermost layers must be slices of bread.

Cranberry sauce to bring to Fairfax for Thanksgiving.

Pancakes on my griddle: I make these very often, using sourdough discard.

Len’s bread with cream cheese and smoked salmon to take to a party.

A few food highlights from our trip to the Outer Banks.

Grilled shrimp — the day boats were bringing in shrimp.

Crab cakes. We also had several kinds of fish in the lovely restaurants there.

Maybe the last picnic of 2021!

 New Magnets on the Refrigerator (Of Course)

Blog post to share with Sherry and participating bloggers at “In My Kitchen”

 © 2021 mae sander.

Rain at the Outer Banks

The weather report for today was rain at the Outer Banks where we spent the weekend. Therefore, we left Kill Devil Hill where we were staying, and drove to Fairfax where we plan to spend the rest of the week and celebrate Thanksgiving. Here are a few more photos from the weekend.

We did a lot of birding!

Near the Alligator River. A beautiful spot,
but we didn’t find any birds here.

A picnic at Cape Hatteras, showing a drink to
share with the bloggers at Elizabeth’s blog event.

And another. picnic on a convenient bench at a beach near Pea Island NWR.
Birding and picnicking at the same time!

Bodie Island Lighthouse.

Photos © 2021 mae sander.

Len flies his drone — at Kitty Hawk!

The drone sees us on the beach.

Drone among the gulls.

 Photos © 2021 mae & len sander.

To Hatteras Island

We started at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge,
walked around to look at birds, and continued onward to Cape Hatteras.

 

Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, built in the 19th century

One more beautiful sunset ended our birding.

Blog post and all photos © 2021 mae sander.

Outer Banks, North Carolina

 

Dinner at the Kill Devil Grill

Fish Sandwich (local drum). Perfectly cooked!

Blog post © 2021 mae sander.