13: Beach Parade
1. Joe and I are part of the Naples beach parade with our matching hats.
2. The bathrooms at the restaurant we ate at last night were marked Gulls and Buoys for Girls and Boys.
3. A crevice of crescent over the ocean slowly filled with light like an hourglass each night.
4. On Madera Beach we met the artist of the above sand memorial. He created the sand tribute for a local friend who recently died of cancer.
5. It survived the tides.
6. With a poet and a psychotherapist on vacation together we are assured to have some Close Encounters of the Wise Kind.
7. Back in the day when I drove junk cars I was hoping one of my sons would become a car mechanic so I would have an in-house mechanic to fix my old cars. It didn’t turn out that way but I did end up with an in-house professional counselor by way of my husband who has helped me work on myself.
8. Seeing Flamingos was a bucket list experience..
9. Colleen to Joe: What’s that guy up to? He has a pretty big yoga mat.
10. Then Joe takes a turn.
11. On Marco Island the beach parade went on.
12. In Madera Beach I told Joe that the flamingos and the heated pool were saving my life, or at least adding a few years to it.
13. Add bike riding and rooftop dining to that.
_______Thirteen Thursday
February 15th, 2024 3:42 pm
You look like you’re having a fine time. Enjoy!
February 15th, 2024 6:37 pm
#4: Someone created a knit hat pattern with that same sentiment. I believe it was on Knitty. I was tempted to make one, but I haven’t gotten around to it.
#9: They have those on the beaches around here, too. I liked it because I had my sneakers on (and I’d rather walk on sand in bare feet; the sand creeps in to shoes).