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Friday, August 24, 2012

~A Cape Cod Beach Day

 My favorite beaches are on the  Cape. My family moved there when I was 12…I’ll always call this piece of land that looks like a flexed arm my home. ♥

My recent escape to the Cape made me reflect & appreciate growing up in such a beautiful place, it makes me long to move back home. ♥

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In Yarmouth beautiful  rose hips adorn the dune grass.  I would spend my Summer days swimming at this very beach.

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  Over on the bay side in Dennis. I love it when  it’s low tide. Flat hard sand that forms ripples  stretching far out to the ocean’s edge. Walking to the edge is an adventure in itself!

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 Once there you set up camp…but that’s only for a short while because the tide always comes back in. ☺

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 You bring all the comforts of home with you.

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The water was so calm…barely a breeze.

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It was fun looking for sand dollars in the surf.

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All good beach days do come to an end, I wish they wouldn’t.

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I can feel Summer fading away.

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On a closing note I would like to wish my husband a very Happy Birthday today!  I hope he catches that big fish he has always wanted to hook before he has to hang that rod up for another season.

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Blessings, Bonnie

Monday, August 20, 2012

~Small Town New England

 Yesterday I went to visit my friend Maria who  had her booth “Primitives by Maria” in the

Templeton Arts & Crafts Festival.

Templeton is celebrating it’s 250th Anniversary this year, what a quintessential  New England town this is.

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Maria & her “Show Dog”

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Her booth happened to be sitting in front of

Country Mischief

The owner Gail is waving in the doorway!

What a wonderful shop she has!!

You can visit their website to read more about Country Mischief  by clicking the link below.

http://www.countrymischief.com/

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We sat down and had some coffee and dessert with Gail, I had the tart. Oh my word it was the best tart I’ve ever had!

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"To the rest of the country, New England has always stood in much the same
relation as England has to America -- that of spiritual homeland and mother
country."

~ B.A. Botkin, author of A Treasury of New England Folklore

Blessings, Bonnie

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

~Sunflowers

"If I were a flower.. I would be a sunflower, to always follow the sun, turn my back to darkness, stand proud, tall and straight even with my head full of seeds."

~Pam Stewart

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I’ve always loved this photo of my daughter when she was about 14, looking up at this gigantic beauty. We actually needed a saw to cut this one down!

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"Like a single sunbeam on a warm summer day, there is an exuberance brilliance in a sunflower."

Blessings, Bonnie