TWEET TWEET!
A beautiful specimen from the birding banding excursion near Snow Hill, MD

Resting Gaucho
A wooden model of a resting cowboy in the Marvel Carriage Museum

Assateague at Sunrise
Waking up to the buzz of bugs isn't so bad when you wake up to this...

Bird Bander
Bird Banding master, Richard Roberts, enlightened Coastal Stewards and a Ward Museum photo group on the world of Eastern shore bird banding and migration. Here, he has the bird in "photo grip."

Ooey Gooey
Sinful dessert eaten in downtown Lewes, Delaware

Rackliffe House
Visible from the near Assateague, this plantation house is pre-revolution

Doggie-Friendly Assateague
Did you know dogs are allowed at Assateague Island National Seashore's non-life guarded beaches?

Dogfish Head Brew Tours
Not only does Dogfish Head try unorthodox methods of brewing, but they also work with molecular biologist to learn and recreate ancient recipes. (You can hear all about it on a brew tour.)

The Future of Chesapeake Bay Farms
These cute little critters welcome the farm's visitors as they taste fresh ice cream and stroll around the grounds.

The historic Julia Purnell Museum in Snow Hill, Maryland

Lavender bundles from Lavender Fields near Milton Delaware

Cornbread
Stop by Trappe Creek Restaurant for their all-you-can eat crab special and cornbread when you're in the Berlin, Maryland area.

Blueberries
Good Earth Market not only sells organic goods, but also local fresh fruits and veggies.

Local Honey
Good Earth Market boasts LOCAL HONEY!

Busy Bee
Lavender Fields Farm has keeps its five hives of bees very busy with creating lavender infused honey, a French delicacy.

Two local musicians work their craft outside the opening of the Delmarva Discovery Center in Pocomoke City, Maryland

Days Gone by Museum owned and operated by Mr. Jack Knowles of Woodland, Delaware. The museum is actually in Mr. Knowles backyard.

Fishing boats
A pair of fishing boats sitting in the Ocean City Commercial Harbor.

Lunch
We witnessed a live horseshoe crab (you guessed it) feeding. That is a minnow in its mouth!

Hermie
This Assateague tour boat shared their pets with us and even let their hermit crab run around a bit.

Female Horseshoe Crab
A female horseshoe crab as she moves back to sea

Sunset Over the Bay
A beautiful sunset at our Makai condo after a long day of rain storms.

Mar-Va Theater Volunteers
The theater's volunteer-only staff takes care of all aspects of the facility, from selling concessions to cleaning up after shows. These local girls will gain community service hours in the next school year.

Local Man Power
Around here, its used for getting two-ton hard tops in place.

Pylons serve as a beautiful perch for the local gulls. What a great view from the DuPont Nature Center window.

Alex, the DuPont Nature Center's mascot, watches over the beaches where his fellow red knots fill up before their long migrations. This giant model bird is sponsored by the DuPont's Clear Into the Future Initiative, a program of the DuPont Company, and the Delaware Division of Fish and Wildlife.

ROAD TRIP: WRAP-UP IN DOVER

Our stay in Dover, Delaware was full of many events from a historic lantern tour to a local bazaar; it was a gambit of events that truly highlighted the gems of this small capital city.

Lantern Tour on the Green

Dover's history involves interesting events such as a murder by chocolate and the overnight ride of Caesar Rodney to Philadelphia to make Delaware the first state...things we did not know about until this telling tour.

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ROAD TRIP: DAY II

Back on the road, after packing up camp, Melanie and I were in search of two valuable commodities... wi-fi and a place to rest our heads for the night.

The first of those was needed (for the obvious reason) to update you kind readers on our travels, so we moved on over to the near by town of Rehoboth. Wi-Fi was found in a cup of coffee from the resident Starbucks, though it wasn't Starbucks internet. (Hint: If you tuck yourself back close to the mall, you can use the mall's internet. It's conveniently free, opposed to AT&T's and Starbucks corporate hold on usage, and it's relatively fast.)

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THE MARVEL CARRIAGE MUSEUM

Recently I took my car for its scheduled inspection back in South Jersey. Waiting in line as my gas tank sputtered on the verge running out of gas, visions of how the car industry came about ran through my head.

The model-t always comes to mind when thinking about the dawn of the automobile in the United States, but what happened before the engine? Back across the Delaware Memorial Bridge was a clue; at the Marvel Museum in Georgetown, Delaware a bit of that history remains intact.

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STURGIS ONE-ROOM SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS

Across the street from DelMarVa Discovery Center, right off where the Bay Queen calls it quits for the day, hides a place of often unspoken history in Pocomoke City, Maryland.

This small museum dedicated to the strong African American man who purchased the land to extend education to the blacks of rural Worcester County in the late nineteenth century. The museum site offers both an actual house that held a 10-person family and a one-room schoolhouse moved there from a near by town.

The Sturgis One Room Schoolhouse is one of the places that goes well with the surrounding town, like a fine cheese goes with a good wine. This particular cheese is best paired with the Mar-Va Theater, or even as a prerequisite to the Discovery Center. Or perhaps even after a bite to eat at Pocomoke's re-opened cozy little Blackwater Café. (If you go, definitely ask for a oatmeal cookies... or three.)

A lovely historical day can easily be made here in this small town called Pocomoke City.

FURNACE TOWN, THE VILLAGE (PART I)

Deep within the Pocomoke Forest sits a brick furnace that reaches to the sky between cypress trees and bog marshes. As the ivy slowly creeps up around the pipes that once recycled the hot air back into the furnace, apparitions seem to continue to load bog iron, oyster shells and charcoal into the structure.

Furnace Town, Maryland, just outside of Snow Hill, is now what is known as a living history museum, but at one time this place was exactly as this name suggests: a town existing for and around the only original structure standing today, the furnace.

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