The weather has been GORGEOUS at the beach here! After work, I called up my family and we agreed to meet straight at the beach - and it turned into hours of connecting :)
I personally enjoy the feel of bare feet as you walk along the wet sand and the water trickles up the shore. 
our kids do too.... 
The wading turned into splashing 
and soon we were all wet! 
[see little one's face above? that's how pete posed for pics in his twenties]
All this reminded me of many 'college-days' afternoons at the cove, tidepools and beach trying to study. I soon learned that studying at Scripps library was effective, plus still got the view.
The kids enjoyed our stories of ecology lab experiments that Pete and I completed together at this very beach - studying hermit crab migration, sea anemone dessication...together!
The kids embarked on "researching" these tidepools and discovered sea anemones, barnacles, mussels, 'sea coral', kelp, hermit crabs....
So easy to pass on something you truly enJOY to others, isn't it?
Gotta love living so close to a respite from Hot hot weather!!
The transluscence of the ocean, that silvery reflection of light off the water, around dusk, has been a personal favorite of Pete and I for years. I remember walking on this beach together at 18 yrs old, wondering where we'd be in 20 years. Still here! together, at that! Praise the Lord!
Sing to the Lord, a new song! Sing the Lord, all the earth!...Let the heavens rejoice and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar and all its fullness. Ps 96:1,2,11
and soon we were all wet! [see little one's face above? that's how pete posed for pics in his twenties]
All this reminded me of many 'college-days' afternoons at the cove, tidepools and beach trying to study. I soon learned that studying at Scripps library was effective, plus still got the view.
The kids enjoyed our stories of ecology lab experiments that Pete and I completed together at this very beach - studying hermit crab migration, sea anemone dessication...together!
The kids embarked on "researching" these tidepools and discovered sea anemones, barnacles, mussels, 'sea coral', kelp, hermit crabs....
So easy to pass on something you truly enJOY to others, isn't it?
Gotta love living so close to a respite from Hot hot weather!!
The transluscence of the ocean, that silvery reflection of light off the water, around dusk, has been a personal favorite of Pete and I for years. I remember walking on this beach together at 18 yrs old, wondering where we'd be in 20 years. Still here! together, at that! Praise the Lord!
This was a pretty pumpkin farm where we stopped to have a picnic
Our shady lunch spot next to a rock that's great for climbing
A wagon ride might help weary feet, yet its already too warm outside.
So we took a break, then returned for
a tractor-pulled hay ride:
that dropped us off at the
Let's find our way thru the cornstalks 
These tired legs could use a lift:
Our navigator runs ahead to seek and find a way out:
Walking amongst the pumpkin plants and vines exploring for pumpkins:
So, we came up with an easy way to add at least 60 inches to their height. 
Carrying them on our shoulders brought them right to the tops! Our younger son said the shoulder-ride was his favorite part of pickin'.
Aha! discovered low laying apples 
on this row of trees:
and found itty bitty baby apples too! aren't these cute? 
My favorite was racing together down the aisles of trees! 
My next desire was a "posed" picture. Negative. Nope. So, we get what we get.
Uncensored love.
How God must love us! We are the apple of His eye. That phrase is used in the Bible to refer to God focusing His love, attention, and protection on those who follow Him.
And tradition has it that the kids get an old fashioned candy stick too!