New baby born. Brittany holds the new baby born to Rosie. Elspeth and Rosie are co-parenting this baby. All are healthy, the delivery was spectacularly quick and easy. This baby is a girl.

Group gathering to celebrate with mother and new born. A group of Oakers were invited in to the birthing room to meet the new baby, the day after the birth.

Periodic Cicadas return. This is the year for the 17 year cicada to return to Central Virginia, including Twin Oaks. Some clever visitors came up with the Cicada theme for a couple of parties they're throwing during their visit.

Cicada emergence holes. This is not the most dense area of emergence holes but it was one of the easier areas to photograph. One foot rulers show scale.

Cicadas on a tree trunk. On a beech tree near one of our buildings, showing an adult emerged cicada and a molt shell.

Cicadas on ornamental plant. Look closely: there are many cicadas and molt shells on these low growning ornamental plants under the apple tree in the Twin Oaks Courtyard.

Washington Post Food Blog article. Writer Carolyn Hax toured Twin Oaks and wrote about our Tofu. [Photo by Post photographer Norm Shafer.]