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Unscripted Hours on the Beach

02 Monday Feb 2015

Posted by Kate Spring in Travel

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Beach, California, family, life, simplicity, travel, vacation

On Pismo Beach

It was the mornings I loved the most.  For most of our trip, we’d wake near the beach, walk over a sand dune or beneath eucalyptus trees and their long, reaching branches, and blink into the tide.

Those unscripted hours found us walking, running, chasing waves, stopping to inspect sand dollars, and watching as Waylon splashed in cold streams of fresh water that ran into the ocean.

chasing waves

There is so much to do wherever we are.  We went to California loaded with suggestions, with places we must see and things we must do, but I forgot them all.

Sometimes the best way to see a place is to not do much of anything.

How much can you learn from a long stretch of sand and salt water?  How much do you have to learn?

Not very much, I realized.

Just this: breathe where you are, be where you are.

morning on Pismo beach

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Moving Like the Fog

23 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Kate Spring in Nature/Environment, Writing

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Acadia, change, Maine, morning, nature, travel, vacation, writing

Fog horns sound across the bay.

A seagull flies through thick morning mist, almost blending in, its movement the only thing giving it away.

White pines stand still on the edge of the rocky beach, their limbs silhouetted by the gray-white air.

From my bed I watch the morning slowly brighten as sunlight makes its way through the fog.  I stay here as long as I can, until the smell of coffee and the sounds of breakfast conversation make their way up the stairs and finally prompt me to move.

View from the bed

When I get up, I know I have to say goodbye.  We are leaving today–making our seven hour journey home after breakfast.  But I take my time, moving like the fog, lifting slowly away.

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Salt and Seaweed

19 Sunday Aug 2012

Posted by Kate Spring in Nature/Environment

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life, Maine, nature, ocean, photography, summer, vacation

Maine.  We are finally here

I open my eyes to the ocean.  Sunrise comes in through our window, lighting the yellow walls, and I look out to the white pines and the bay and the rocky shore.  Pebble, one of our dogs, is already bursting with energy, flopping her tail back and forth on the bed and telling us it is time to go outside.  So we go.

Barb, my mother-in-law, and I walk with the four dogs down to the beach where a lobster boat floats next to a buoy in calm water and long clouds stretch across the sky, slowly giving way to the blue above them.  The dogs run back and forth, their snouts skimming above the rocks, their ears on alert and their tails wagging.  I put my nose to the air and breathe in salt and seaweed.

The mosquitoes find us fast, and I’m surprised when I squash three at once on my arm, brush another out of my eyebrow, and feel the bites of a few more on my feet.  Still, I smile.  We head back inside as seagulls are taking their first flights of the day and calling out over the water.  I find Edge in our room, just waking up.

“Hello, vacation-man,” I say, and he laughs.

It’s hard for farmers to take time off during the summer.  It’s harder still for that time to be in mid-August, when the garden is bursting with vegetables and the list of to-dos only seem to grow, but here we are on vacation, and there are no lists waiting to be checked off.  There is only the ocean and family, and it feels so good.

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