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Ocean Grove eats cameras
Or so I was beginning to think. We took a day trip yesterday to Ocean Grove. Or, more accurately, we took a late-afternoon-into-night trip, as is our usual m.o. These are the only pictures I was able to take before my camera seized up, lens partially extended, and refused to come back on. If you [...]
continue reading "Ocean Grove eats cameras"Colors of home
Eren’s post on the colors of Coastal Maine struck a chord with me. With every year I fall more and more in love with the colors of the Jersey Shore. The sandy beiges, the blues of the sea and sky… Yummy. But I remember last May, after spending five days in Ocean City, I was [...]
continue reading "Colors of home"When the going gets tough…
The tough escape to the beach Late afternoon beach trips are the best. The hottest part of the day is over, access to the beach is free, the crowds have begun to disperse… it’s a great time to kick back on a blanket and relax. Or to take 699 pictures. Not that I know anyone [...]
continue reading "When the going gets tough…"This is my Jersey Shore
Forget what you’ve seen on MTV. This is the Jersey Shore, “Ocean City in May” style. In other words: cloudy, breezy, reading a book on the blanket, a bit chilly, quiet beach, peaceful, dipping a toe in the ocean, family-friendly, shopping, postponing bedtime to take in the boardwalk lights, ice cream, no crowds, wishing we [...]
continue reading "This is my Jersey Shore"My camera’s last hurrah?
We took advantage of the 50-degree weather (because compared to what it had been, 50 degrees is positively balmy) on Sunday and trekked off to the Jersey shore. We landed about an hour and 15 minutes from home in Ocean Grove, a Victorian beach town we’d visited once before. We spent time on the beach, [...]
continue reading "My camera’s last hurrah?"Just beachy
Now that both of my kids are school-age, I find that I appreciate my role as at-home Mom most deeply in the summer. I’ve gotten used to having them both on schedules and gone for a great portion of the time during the school year, but in the summer? In the summer, we can drop [...]
continue reading "Just beachy"And then the sun came out
In a lot of ways, our 4-day getaway was a study in irony. There was the weather, for one thing: a day of fog, followed by a day of cold rain, followed by a day of cold sun, and culminating in a single, lovely 68-degree sunny day right when we were ready to check out. [...]
continue reading "And then the sun came out"Beach Blanket Plan B
Sunday was rainy, as predicted. And cold, also as predicted. And though we did venture out to the boardwalk a few times – growing boys need pancake breakfasts, and arcade games, after all – we spent a good portion of our late morning and early afternoon cocooned in the hotel. Our hotel is situated right [...]
continue reading "Beach Blanket Plan B"In a nutshell
(A rather large nutshell, apparently) Here’s what’s been happening in our Polka Dot Cottage for the last few days: First, we finally took that evening beach trip I’d promised the kids. Various factors had been keeping us from going for the last few weeks, but Wednesday we managed to do it. And Neil was able [...]
continue reading "In a nutshell"Adventures by the sea
I’m back. Miss me? We surprised the boys with a trip to Ocean City, NJ this weekend. We had been there at the end of March last year, and although it was really cold and our hotel was kind of run-down and a bit of a walk to the boardwalk and the downtown area, we [...]
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