More beach pictures

In honor of the end of beach season, here are some pictures of the (story) ocean from late August

look how windy it was in our hair

Hope Everyone is enjoying their Labor Day Weekend

Beach Pictures

In spite of the less the idea circumstances surrounding it, I am excited about spending some time at the beach.



So in honor of my month earlier than I'd have liked return to the ocean, here are some shots from the last trip that I was planning to share with you before my world was flipped upside down.

Beach Reading: Back Where He Started From

If you want a twist on your typical, Guy leaves wife for secretary story read BACK WHERE HE STARTED.

Editorial Review From Amazon.com

Product Description

They say true freedom arrives when all the kids are gone and the dog dies. With his family grown and his husband Zack having decided to become a middle-aged cliché and marry his secretary, Chris Thayer is about to discover that starting life over at 48 is just as complicated, frustrating and thrilling as the first time around. After relocating to the North Carolina beach community of Emerald Isle, Chris finds a new appreciation of his role as the heart of the home to his grown children and becomes involved in the patchwork lives of his neighbors. To his unending surprise, he also finds himself the object of a new man's affections, a rowdy jack-of-all-trades with an unnervingly direct stare.

Now, I know what you are thinking, in the words of my best friend's Grandma Billie "they're queers!"


Dirty little secret, straight girls love gay men. Why is this a dirty little secret? They only share it with their closest friends and guys are completely clueless. So, after ordering a book based on the Critically Acclaimed TV Series QUEER AS FOLK, this book was recommended for me and since I have no problem reading such a story, and I was in the middle of the cold winter, I immediately ran to my local library and picked up this story that allowed me to escape to the warmth of the beach.


As far as I can remember, though it has been a few years, there were no gratuitous sex scenes that would gross out anyone who can't picture a love scene with two men. There is some kissing and maybe heavy petting but, as the lead character's name is Chris, I suppose you can pretend he's a she if need be. The point is, it is a really sweet story that teaches that family is more than just blood and, with just a bit of imagination, is visually stunning.


I recommend it for sitting on a beach as the waves crash around you or for anyone longing to feel like they are, while sitting anywhere else.

Water Baby

In my post Recession Proof, I promised to get into the strange phenomenon of my having great ideas in the bath tub. Well in truth, it all boils down to me having great ideas while being in close proximity to water sources of any kind. While taking baths or lounging on the beach I tend to come up with great stories or solve issues that seemed unsolvable almost effortlessly. After much discussions about this with my closest friends and relatives, the conclusion we’ve come to is that it is a direct result of my being born under the Astrological Water Sign Cancer:

water elements: Torrents of passion well within water signs and they feel things deeply. However, water signs are always emotionally reserved, no matter what impression they might give on the surface. Still water, it has been said, runs deep, and the mystery about water pertains to this group (especially Scorpio). A water sign will always become quiet or withdrawn when they are trying to sort things out. It will take some time to get to know them well, for they reveal themselves slowly. They realize their intense emotions hold tremendous power, and they tend to handle their feelings carefully.

Cancer is a Cardinal sign, Scorpio is a Fixed sign, and Pisces is a Mutable sign. In basic terms, Cancer leads and initiates, Scorpio goes deep with a fixed focus and Pisces is changeable, hard to pin down.

Look carefully at the bold parts and it seems to make sense that i would be at my best mentally (and in all fascists) when i am alone with only the water. However my natural oneness with water doesn't stop with my thoughts, ever since I can remember, I have always felt at home in the water.

When I was less than two years old, I was riding waves in my father’s arms in the night seas of Virginia Beach. Some babies are scared to put a toe in the ocean midday but, according to my parents, I was fearlessly laughing and bursting with joy as I splashed around under the moon with my daddy singing Mother Goose songs. I always love that image because I think it lays out the whole blue print of who I am, loving the water and not able to keep my mouth shut lol.

In all seriousness, there is just something so magical about the ocean. It has the power to kill you within seconds but still manages to be the most calming presence we have in all of nature. It has been around longer than humans, it existed before Dinosaurs and everything else, it gives life to everything that has ever lived and ever will live, it has seen empires rise and dynasties fall, it will never be exactly the same twice, and will endure long after we are gone.

A different view...

As you are reading this, yours truly is probably laying poolside or baking on the sand, or splashing around in cool but not too cold waves of the Jersey Shore. So for the next, however many posts, I'll be writing away from home and I figured I'd give you a look around at where i will be positing from.

My Room

Love the Beach theme

Downstairs

And now the best part, the view (feel free to be jealous)

Life's a beach and then you fry

Its Memorial Day weekend which means the beaches are opened. I love beaches, pools, swimming and anything summer really so needless to say, my family and I made our first trip of the season. Also needless to say, my cheap Irish skin turned pink. However, it is a brownish pink so I’ll take it. To celebrate the unofficial start to summer here are some beach shots that I’ve taken.

This is my friend, April. She is lucky enough
to live at the Jersey Shore a block away from the beach!

I love the dunes, sky, and water- looks like a painting

September 2008, running in and out of the waves
my hair was so short because i did a cut for cancer

August 2009