Absence from posting...

For such a city girl, I am enraptured with the beach. My first memory as a child was associated with the beach. I was crossing the street to go to the ocean and remember how incredibly hot the street was.

We have been so very blessed to have had many treasured trips to the NC coast by way of the generosity of friends throughout our years here. Our children have grown up having the privilege of summer vacations at the ocean. I hope they always remember what a gift that was.

My husband and I spent this past weekend celebrating our summer time off from school by taking a side trip to my expectant daughter's (to wash and prepare baby clothes) and traveling on from there to the beach to spend some very quality time with just us two. Brief, but special none the less. In this case, as is often the case...less was more.

I could spend the rest of my life as an artist, photographing God's creation - beach, flowers, animals, forests, creeks...there is such beauty in all that surrounds us. I am brought to being speechless at some of the "wish I had my camera" moments that I see around me that will be forever burned in my memory, but seeing it in a picture would have been great, too.

The above pictures were taken in Beaufort, NC, and the beach near there. We had dinner and breakfast on the boardwalk there. We actually saw a yacht that was an incredible 90 feet long! Couldn't fit the whole thing in a picture worth showing.

Time is ticking by for several upcoming events in the life of this artist...school starts in 12 days and also the stork is planning a dropoff nearby as well. Excited about both, one definitely more than the other... :o)