Fall UMaine

Classes started, frantic studying ensued, and with a new roommate, Emily, moved in, it was time for our last Fall at UMaine. I was pretty busy with work and classes, I had gotten a job at the entomology lab working with fire ants (Myrmica rubra) and my classes were environmental economics, intro to forestry, wildlife class and vascular plant taxonomy.

We found time to have fun of course, and made sure to follow our usual tradition of apple picking at Treworgy Family Orchard in Levant, Maine. We love this place.

Emily wants this pumpkin.

This place has some of the best icecream I've ever had!!!

I got a new hat while I was there.

In order to keep our cats happy, I brought in a box of leaves. The cats were appeased, and we lived another day. 

Ln enjoys the box of leaves (this one is my cat. John named him Ln after Natural Logarithm. We pronounce his name (Lin)

This is my roommate's cat Camille. She and Ln did NOT get along for a long time. More on that later.

Camille is queen in our house.

After Annie moved in last year, she brought her cat Camille with her. Ln was just a kitten still, and Camille was a grumpy old cat. it took half a year before they got to like/tolerate each other, and part of the bonding process was watching "cat tv" together. They enjoyed watching my gerbils and Nichole's hamsters together.

Here they are, tolerating each other. 

Here they are, not tolerating each other quite as much. The "cat tv" makes a difference.

More not tolerating each other. I was trying to sleep and Camille wanted to instigate.

Just when the cats had gotten along, we brought in a stray. Tummbles the cat had been visiting for about a year, and I worked hard to befriend him. I didn't have the money to take him in however, but Annie did. He terrorized the other two cats for a few months, before they started to become friends.

Tummbles the cat. Named after his tendency to roll whenever I tried to talk to him as a stray.

Fall had set in, and the leaves started to change. There's nothing quite like a New England Fall.

Bike trail on campus

Nutting, the Wildlife Ecology and Forestry Building. This Fall it underwent a face-lift.

The mall, and at the end, Fogler library.

Hirundo Wildlife refuge.

Nearing the end of the Fall, in Forestry class.

Nichole, Steph and I went to Hirundo to enjoy the leaves.

Goodbye, New England Fall!