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yarnalong...WIP Wednesday

100-year-old-man proved to be the almost perfect beach read....if it had been a bit longer---PERFECT!   It was light, quite imaginative, didn't need total focus to enjoy, funny, totally charming.  I loved it, and am not quite sure I'll be able to get into the much more serious The Keeper of Secrets.   This story is set during Nazi Germany and the present--about Simon Horowitz, his violin, and love of music---and his grandson, Daniel who inherited that love, lost it, and found it again with help of a kind conductor.  I just started it.  Too soon to tell how drawn in I'll get.

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I brought Leaves of Grass with me to the beach.  I was very naive to think that I was really more than halfway when I started the final chart!!!  (Thanks, Lori!!!!   I probably wouldn't have brought along all the remaining 5!!! skeins, and it's going to take every bit of it!)  It's moving along nicely, mainly because our first two days were so beautiful and so sunny and so windy.....(and it had been a whole year since I had been on the beach).....that I got SOOOO sun-burned!!!!  (I was slathered with 50, promise!)

L-O-Grass and I are now having some quality time alone in the shade on the porch-- overlooking the sun, the beach, the pool and the other burned members of my family who can't pull themselves away from all the fun.  Knitting in this perfect setting!???  Most definitely FUN! 

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joining Ginny for Yarnalong and Tami for WIP Wednesday

a new day dawning...

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:: early morning walk, greeted the sun about the time we got to the pier

:: the 'walk' was more like a stroll---I can't be on the beach without looking down; this year...only sea glass and shark teeth will come home (yeah, right!!!)

:: this flower appeared between leaving on our walk---and getting back 'home'....a beach morning glory?  (ipomoea pes-caprea) 

:: some of us dug to China (but didn't get there---yet)

:: some of us went 'fishing'

:: some of us skim boarded with a new board

:: some of us waited for waves

:: and some of us just sun-bathed....

  

It was a great day!

we're h-e-r-e!!!

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Let the vacation begin!

weekending....

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:: beach time

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:: feeding time

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(chapel with stained glass window, personally installed by Tiffany)

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(Grand Hotel)

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(turtle hospital)

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:: sightseeing time (on Jekyll Island)

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most importantly....

:: friend time

slice of heaven.....

yeah, I've got my eye on you, too!

Ta-Dah Tuesday.....

Beach affection ....... (sigh)  I really miss the beach.

single moment.....

Joining Amanda at Soulemama with a single photo from the week.....

a walk on the beach....

 

 

I'm a beach walker......I walk aimlessly for miles and miles.  Walk might be too energetic a word.  Stroll, mosey, meandering may be more like it.  I go at the pace of a loggerhead turtle (which once again, I didn't see)---maybe slower.

No one really wants to go with me, which is really OK.  Pre-walk conversations go something like this...

    : where are you going?       to the beach.

    : no WHERE???                   no where

    : what are you looking for?           nothing/anything

    : when are you coming home?            sometime

What is the draw?  The sound of the tides? The birds? The shells? The peacefulness? The alone-time? Don't know.  It doesn't matter.  I do love how the beach changes every day...yet stays the same.  Some mornings there are zillions of huge pieces of sand dollars--the next day, not a piece to be found---yet, there is the whole one!  Most days, the pelicans entertain with their aerial diving; one day they just flew by and didn't give us a second look.

This morning I was going to "sleep in"--and I did.  I wasn't  on the beach until 6:10.  That was late.  All day, I'm going to wonder what I missed.  Were the dolphins up early?  I probably missed the shrimp boats going out for the day.  I missed the sunrise.  But maybe I'll be there for the sunset. 

And the treasures just waiting to be found....NC beach isn't a shell seeker's delight, but it's still fun finding sea urchins, assorted clams, baby ears, olives, slippers, oysters, mussels, augers, jingles, coquinas, limpet, moon,  periwinkles, angelwings, sea glass, sand dollars, and one H-U-G-E conch (found by JR, not me!).  Pieces of bonnets, tulip, pens, and giant tun.

Pelican feathers, crab carapace and claws, shark teeth, and a lost egg (not turtle) swirling in the surf--all there for those who are looking.  

But if there is nothing to be found....it's still a good day.

It's the journey....the process....that I love; the destination is the bonus.  

Just like knitting.

A single moment......

Joining Amanda at Soulemama with a single photo from the week.

 

Yarnalong and WIP Wednesday....

 

Knitting and reading....sounds like vacation, right????  Sandy yarn and gritty, salty, slightly damp crinkly pages.  It's vacation, alright!

I've wanted to read an Everlasting Meal for a long time---read about it first here on yarnalong.  It's my on-the-beach book;  no real story so you can pick it up and put it down at will.  The Butterfly Cabinet is my steal-away-on-the-porch read.  Based on a real story, this hops from excerpts from a "prison diary" written in the late 1800s, to present day (1960s) revelations of the same story, told from another's perspective.  Good. 

On the needles.... A beachy Color Affection; doesn't the blue and brown remind you of this? 

Joining Ginny for Yarnalong and Tami for WIP Wednesday!