such a great day. One morning as Ethan and his friend Acadia were playing out in the driveway I heard a loud crash. I ran out expecting to find our van had been rolled down the driveway, across the road, down the ravine and over the waterfall. Fortunately for us, that was not the case. Unfortunately for camp, a bus of campers had been returning from the horse barn and a truck had been speeding down the mountain collided right outside of Matt's office. Needless to say we spent quite a while checking out the incident from Matt's window. Then, we waited for the tow-truck and watched it haul off the vehicles. Ethan speculated to grandma that a "double-tow-truck" would be needed and proceeded to explain to her what that was. She asked for a picture. Unfortunately, just a single tow-truck arrived for double duty, but we got a picture of that anyway. While we're all posting pics, here are a couple more of my boys at camp (oh, and the bright orange salamanders Elliot found in the brush
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I think that's a Red Spotted Newt!
http://www.uga.edu/srelherp/salamanders/notvir.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/5486/newts.htm
You are right sir! The red spotted newts are rampant around here. They are a variety of salamander. They are born in the water and are a dark greenish color (the boys go and catch them in the lake), then crawl out, turn bright orange and spend their adolescence on land, then return to the water, change color again, breed and die. Of course you probably knew that from your link. We think they're pretty cool.
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