sand
Yesterday at the beach I continued a photo theme that I started two years ago in colorado ~
snow
Don't ask me why. It makes me happy. I'll see what I can rustle up to throw this week at the lake.
Things have been pleasantly hectic (I like that word) around here lately as we prepare to go to ontario for a week's vacation. This trip has been long in the works, and I'm very excited. I could write a book about my experiences in canada ~ as a child, a teenager, on road trips, with friends, with tim. It holds a special place for me. But I don't have time today to speak of it.
Suffice it to say there will be stars, loons, painted turtles, chipmunks and local ice cream. We have to bring our own water to drink and I hope our cell phones don't work. The dogs are coming. I plan on back-diving off the canoe in the middle of the lake.
Do you have any special spots you return to year after year?
xo brooke
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9 comments:
For a few years i went to the outer banks every summer. it is one of my favorite places. Pure unadulterated beach and fantastic sea food. I would wander up and down the beach just picking up shells and snapping photos. I didn't get to go this year. I will be working right through the summer .
we rarely went on vacation when i was a child-- but in my adult life, i find i return, again and again, to new york city. there's something about the history there. and getting lost on the streets and subway tunnels.
there's one nut cart that i always look for. it sells the most amazing hot, candied almonds. i've been to the city several times around christmas. and i always find solace in a mitten full of those nuts and a trip to the candle-lit st.patricks cathedral.
enjoy your trip to canada! (what glorious country!) fingers crossed that your phones don't work :)
your vacation sounds lovely - I have never canoed much, but we just started to for my summer job to look for herons, and I'm falling in love. I think when I get back to Ontario for school in a few weeks, I would like to do some canoeing there too. :)
davis and I have started to make Tofino on Vancouver Island a yearly tradition - we've been for the past 3 summers, even when we really shouldn't afford it. but the peace and thrill of nature we get there is priceless.
have a wonderful trip! looking forward to seeing the pictures :)
ta ~ the outer banks are gorgeous. I have been there once and it felt magical and powerful to see the great ocean rolling back from the dunes! it has such a different feel than the beaches further north.
alfie ~ I really want to check out the candles next time! :)
victoria ~ canoing is nice because you can sneak up on animals. I love the 'plop' of the turtles when they spot me. It's so quiet to canoe right along the level of the water, dipping your hands in...I love it. :)
Sounds like a wonderful plan. I don't have any special vacation spots I return to, but I love to go to places where I can connect to nature and have the fondest memories of a canoeing trip we made in eastern Poland.
oooooooooo :) i can't wait to see your pictures. i hope your trip is wonderful.
we try to get to the beach each year. we also try to get to the park out in the city and sit in the enormous gazebo where hub proposed. :)
your vacation sounds lovely, the hubs and I were thinking of going to Canada for our anniversary this year in october. For me, the ultimate place that I go to most summers (except for the past 2) is Saugatuck, Michigan. My grandparents have a house on the outskirts of the country that used to be a cottage until our family got too big :) I have been going there for summers since before I was born when my mother went every summer since she was a child. It is very ingrained into my life and it smells like beach sand, root beer (even though I don't drink pop anymore), and apples. One of my favorite places in the world.
I hope you write that book Brooke...and I hope you have a peaceful adventure in the woods by the lake...it sounds amazing.
We do not have places that we return to every year but we usually do make a trip to the beach and one of my favorites is a small coastline called Topsail here in North Carolina. I am longing to visit the long stretches of unspoiled coastline at the Outerbanks as well...it has been 5 years or more since I have been there.
Big, fat smile on my face! Very excited for you and Tim (and the pups of course). Neat to think we'll be "close" being that Canada is Alaska's neighbor!! xo
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