Showing posts with label sand dollar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sand dollar. Show all posts

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Dreamy


Early yesterday evening we took a beautiful walk
at a beach north of us.

The steamy humid air from the day changed
into comfortable temperatures with a lovely breeze.

We walked down the long wooden path leading to 
the beach through tall beach grass.











The water was warm as we walked along the edge...
 






Found sanddollars...


Was such  a dreamy evening!

Sunday, January 6, 2013

Sunday


I had an early morning breakfast  with
Brody over here
and then later D surprised me with the
above!
As he described it:
blueberry gluten free waffle (Van's frozen waffles),
strawberry jam with medallions of bananas
and cutie clementine wedges!
It looked beautiful!


Among the treasures found on the beach today
were 6 sand dollars for January 6th!

Friday, February 4, 2011

Magic

Sometimes there seems to be magic in the air!
Just as the sun set today was one such time.

You may wonder what one colorful glove has to
do with magic....

I'll try to explain...
I almost missed taking a walk on the beach today.
I haven't walked in a long time because of all of
the snow and cold!
It was late in the day and getting dark when we
happened to be near the beach and on the spur
of the moment I decided to take a quick walk
and left D in the car reading!
As I was approaching the stairs leading to the beach,
I noticed something colorful poking out of the snow bank
on the edge of the sidewalk.
As it came into clearer focus it looked like a mitten
and it reminded me of my colorful knitted gloves
that my sister-in-law in Germany sent me years ago.
One of those gloves has been sitting in the backseat of
our car for quite some time
and I had assumed I had brought the matching
glove into the house weeks ago and kept forgetting to
the bring the one in the car inside to join it.
When I got close enough to reach the mitten, I at first
thought it might be a child's but when I bent down
and pulled it out of the snow I realized it was my glove!
I hadn't really known that I had lost it and to see it there
totally amazed me! I was ecstatic!

I wish it could tell me where it has been all this time.
We've had so many snow storms and the plows have
been moving tons of snow everywhere.
To think that I almost didn't take that walk tonight
and that we happened to park near those stairs
and that just enough of the glove was showing to
peak my curiosity...oh, it really did feel magical!



In the fading light, I happened to look down
at the dark wet sand, and barely saw the outline
of something round and then another...
sand dollars together! I carefully picked them
up and slid them in my pocket.



So clear was the sky with a delicate moon
and way above moon shone the evening star!


Thursday, December 25, 2008

A Quiet Day


Early this morning ( 3:15 am. to be exact) the power
went out, second time in several weeks.
This time it was due to high winds. Fortunately,
the outside temperature reached 40 degrees and the
sun was shining in the windows so the inside temperature
only dropped 58 degrees before the power returned
at 10:30 this morning. I was so happy to be able to cook!
Today was a quiet day spent with D and the kitties,
cooking, eating, watching the birds, preparing to draw
and taking an afternoon walk on the beach.
The lack of power really makes me appreciate the simple things.

A ladybug suddenly appeared on one of my
shells in my window this morning.

While walking on the beach this afternoon,
I came upon a sand dollar blending into the sand.