Gone To The Beach

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Summer weekend

Hi!
Hope your weekend was lovely! It was HOT here at the beach, unexpected for early June. But now, finally, a delightful dry breeze is bringing us nicer weather---for Monday, sigh.

The farmers market was better than ever!

Such pretty flowers...

Fun to stock up for the weekend...

An interesting wine (Summertide---I loved the name! The wine itself---not so much, soooo sweet, too bad.). And lovely crusty breads, artisan olive oil, fresh mozzarella and the BEST camenbert I think I've ever tasted. Yum.

And lovely fresh, crisp, and colorful veggies---colorful means healthy, right?

And peonies are in season, their brief glorious moments in June.

I got an armful,

filled my Mason jars...

and blue and white pitchers.....

And I made myself a summer bracelet, big chunks of turquoise, a couple of faceted Amazonite beads and a silver sand dollar....

What was special for you this weekend? I'd love to know...

love

lizzy

gone to the beach

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Beach Roses-Must be June

The beach roses are blooming.

Iris Murdoch

"People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us."

Imagine what these make-believe aliens would think when my neutral dunes, all white sand, brown grasses, hints of green, old weathered grey fencing---suddenly burst into brilliantly colored, sweet scented roses!

Simple wild roses, they smell so sweet...

Deceptively fragile petals, like wisps of silken organdy....

Happy golden centers, calling to the honey bees...

The beach roses bloom along the dune boardwalks, on the lee sides, away from the salt spray...

Tiny banners welcoming summer days...

PS I can't help but wonder what Murdoch's aliens would have thought of all those nearly naked, lobster red folks, sitting, playing on that dull expanse of colorless soil! There they'd stand, scratching their little green heads, trying to decipher the reason why? Why do the smallest earthlings dig enormous earthworks while the big ones sit in silent contemplations? Who, what---why?

enjoy!

love

lizzy