Summer in Blue

June 28th, 2009

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Hostas Bloom

June 28th, 2009

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The Shoreline Beckons

June 7th, 2009

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Aaaaah, the sounds of the salty molecules formed into a wave created by the moon’s cycles. The seashore is an enigma to the mind and a tranquilizer to the soul.  Some suggest that we yearn for the place from whence we crawled out of eons ago as some sort of amphibian. Whether you subscribe to this thought or not, the sea beckons to all.  The salty aroma of the offshore breezes moving into the senses of the head and the tiny granules of sand moving between the toes is enough to take even the most jaded mental state off into oblvion and replace it with a certain sense of wonder.  The sounds of children laughing, the struts of young people showing off their youth, and the sweetness of stately older people shuffling along the side of the sea bring a sense of belonging to mass that is humanity. To all that experience that narrow strip that separates the land from the ocean, a permanent memory of the time spent there is indelibly marked upon ones mind.  Whether the lodgings are refined and elegant, or merely a weathered cottage in need of paint, the stay at the edge of the ocean seems to bring a certain sense of solace and contentment as the environment there brings everyone to a base state of existence.  People, for the most part, strip down to the bare essentials and become part of the natural world that is the beach.

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