Old and new

It has been awhile since I've posted. There is a reason. The move. I put my camera away and dug in. Now it is pretty much done...boxes packed, moved and unpacked. There are final touches to be done, pictures to be hung, probably things to paint. But, I have my camera out again! Here is the last picture I took from our dock at the condo.

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


My first camera outing after the move was to J.W. Renfroe Pecan Company. They had candy. Pretty much that is all I could think about.

"Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the Titanic who waved off the dessert cart." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Erma Bombeck




"The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-"preserves" she made!" ¸.•*´¨`♥ James Whitcomb Riley



I was slow on the snapping, cause I only got a couple that I liked. But it is a start!

Sunrise on the Sound {Part 1 of 3}

We had visitors! So seldom that happens. It was an old friend from Illinois and his girlfriend...Daniel and Nikki. It was so nice to see a familiar face. And they didn't mind being photographed! I tried not to be a nuisance, but I took a couple.

One evening Nikki said she was going to set her alarm to watch the sunrise at our dock. So, the next morning I woke up and saw the sun hadn't come up yet. I hurried up and got dressed so I could go down. D decided he didn't want to miss the show, so he came also. But, guess who didn't show? Yep. Nikki :-)

"In the world's audience hall, the simple blade of grass sits on the same carpet with the sunbeams, and the stars of midnight" ¸.•*´¨`♥ Rabindranath Tagore



Just a little



A little more



Blue on blue


Sitting on the dock of the bay ¸.•*´¨`♥ Otis Redding


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Sunrise on the Sound {Part 2 of 3}

Sailboats in the sunrise



Seaweed washed up on the beach



Sitting on the balcony The Threesome



Nikki Beautiful smile


Daniel the soda sipper


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More of a walk along the beach and a new Farmers' Market!! {Part 1 of 7}

Here are some more pictures of a walk on the beach. I love how warm the water is! And how soothing for the soul the walk is.

The Gathering


Upside down


"Sea Shell, Sea Shell, Sing of the things you know so well." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Amy Lowell


"The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Leonardo da Vinci


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More of a walk along the beach and a new Farmers' Market!! {Part 2 of 7}

"Sticking his neck out because he's tired of just sitting there hoping people will notice him for his calm energy" ¸.•*´¨`♥ StoryPeople


Can you tell that I love the hermit crabs? They tickle me beyond belief. They have gatherings (shoots the hermit theory doesn't it?) and can scoot around like crazy. I especially love the ones in the old crusty conch shells that have barnacles. And I covet the ones that have the beautiful shells that would look simply marvelous on my window sill. How does one convince a hermit crab to vacate their shell for another?

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Rainer Maria Rilke


" From such crooked wood as that which man is made of,nothing straight can be fashioned. " ¸.•*´¨`♥ Immanuel Kant


These trees apparently have taken a hard hit from past hurricanes and just general weather from the Sound. But they are beautiful in their starkness.

“Purity is obscurity.” ¸.•*´¨`♥ Ogden Nash



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More of a walk along the beach and a new Farmers' Market!! {Part 3 of 7}

Bob Sikes Bridge


Looking homeward


Our little cove


"For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Richard Bach, 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull'


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More of a walk along the beach and a new Farmers' Market!! {Part 4 of 7}

"I do not understand how anyone can live without one small place of enchantment to turn to." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings


There is a farmers' market on Wednesday evenings! How happy am I? If you have read any of this journal, you know I am delirious. And not only that, but there is also one on Saturday mornings!

Port City Farmers' Market


"In the corner store we pulled fat bottles of water from the shelves. No one thinks it's weird that we have to buy clean water, and that's how I know we're going to hell." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Michael Crichton


That building isn't part of the market, but catty corner from it.

"Watermelon -- it's a good fruit. You eat, you drink, you wash your face." ¸.•*´¨`♥ Enrico Caruso


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