Day Two Hundred Seventy Three 2013

“This is my carefree, this is my freedom–this is MY HAPPY.”
― Coco J. Ginger

Monday at the beach

Rained this morning

Kelly and I treated ourselves to a pedicure ~ my very first. It was wonderful. Happy Nails, indeed!

The sky cleared, a nice cool breeze blew, so we headed to the sand and waves and read and ate and snoozed. Someone was flying this neat kite ~ looked like a pelican.

Eastern sky

Home away from home

Happy feet!

Yellow flag has been blowing each day ~ the waves weren’t as fierce today, though.

Kerry and Knox hittin the beach this afternoon after a nap

Neil and Knox playing in the sand ~ Neil kept trying to build a sand castle ~

~ and Knox kept [gleefully] tearing them down

Smokin! Kelly noticed that this cloud formation made the buildings look like they were on fire

Happy toddler toes in the sand

Knox was running in and out of the water ~ the sand under the water is very uneven in places and you can suddenly drop off into deeper water ~

~ which is what happened to Knox who fell in face first ~ getting a taste of salty sea water didn’t upset him at all

We had an unusual supper ~ Neil and Kerry bought some fresh shrimp ~ Neil shucked the shells and Kerry Googled a good way to boil it ~ and it was really good with the homemade cocktail sauce they bought and a slice of cheese ~ the meal was unusual because

we also enjoyed homemade chili which was yummy, too ~ can’t say that I’ve ever had these two dishes together but it was all good

We enjoyed another beautiful but subtle sunset and tucked this day into the memory books ~

Day Two Hundred Twenty One 2013

I almost burned holes in my retinas taking this picture. Thank God for glorious sunshine! A sight for sore [and waterlogged] eyes. Happy TGIF, y’all!

Day Sixty Nine 2013

Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero

which translates as:

While we're talking, envious time is fleeing: pluck the day, put no trust in the future
The original source for the Latin phrase is the lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC),
more widely known as Horace. The term is first found in Odes Book I

[don’t say I never taught ya nothin]

I seized the shades of gray sunset in a photograph to share with you. My diem was pretty quiet.

Day Forty Three 2013

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
~Anton Chekhov
The winter sun made the sky look like it had a big hole in it today.

Day Twenty Four 2013

I envy people who can just look at a sunset. I wonder how you can shoot it.  
~Dustin Hoffman 

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Day Three Hundred Forty 2012

Sunshine is a welcome thing. It brings a lot of brightness. ~Jimmie Davis
(My thoughts exactly!)

Day Three Hundred Twenty Four 2012

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Day Two Hundred Fifty Eight 2012

You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds. 
~Henry David Thoreau
(Happy TGIF, everyone!)

Day Three Hundred Fifty Five 2011

"So the shortest day came, and the year died,
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive,
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - Listen!!
All the long echoes sing the same delight,
This shortest day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, fest, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!!"
- Susan Cooper, The Shortest Day
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Wishing my brother in law, Terry Sissom, a very happy 55th birthday!

Day Three Hundred Forty Three

December Sky

An extremely blustery day today made for some interesting clouds this afternoon and a gorgeous sunset.