A beautiful summer weekend on Long Island

A couple of branches of the family got to spend a bit of the Independence Day weekend together in Noyac.

Genevieve, John and Bea; Vivien and CJ; and Patrick were all able to join Kathy at her summer house for the weekend.

Dan and Julie, Christine and Andy and his girlfriend, Shannon, also came out from New Jersey for a couple of days.

A family of swans joined the gathering for a while.

The group spent Monday night enjoying a pleasantly warm evening and some unofficial fireworks displays from the "back beach."

Everyone was back again for a short time the next morning before setting off in various directions.

Dan & Julie's group also squeezed in time at the ocean and bay beaches during their roughly 30 hours on the East End. Here are Christine, Andy and Shannon enacting a charge into the ocean surf. (They did not, in fact, take the plunge. The water was still pretty cold.)