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Pallets of colors:

Painted in a spectrum of colors on houses

Patterned on fences

Highlighted on eaves and lattice

Punched on porches

Dappled on store fronts

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Long empty beaches speckled with only a few vacationers also has its share of color.

Here and there among the warm sand and breaking s

urf  the unexpected colors of:

  pink star-topped umbrellas

smooth orange rocks gathered in my scarf

 russet colored oak leaves and green sea glass

and stained rimmed sea posts in iridescent green.

 

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Being in Cape May equals:

never attempting to even pick up the room we are staying in

reading on the beach

collecting stones and shells {every year I chose a color  to scan for as we walk the beach…this year's model was orange in honor of October}

finding new cafes and restaurants to spend way to much money and have leisurely conversations at

After a cloudy cool Saturday the setting sun streaked out of dark stubborn clouds that kept us in jeans and long sleeves all day as we shopped and ate like tourists, Mr.MS says:

"For one day a year we have a pocketful of cash to spend on ourselves…then tomorrow comes"

I felt like I was receiving a gift from the sky as we picked our way, shoe-less, toward the shore and the poking sun rays turned into a glorious sunset.  I have never seen orange turn to red turn to pink turn to dark purple turn to gray-blue so quickly, so beautiful.

Everyone on the beach and promenade turned photographer.

"i love this guy"

AND

 "why in the sam hell did no one tell me i had that many laugh lines"

 

Heres to marriage time outs

spending way too much money on eating out and alcohol

and sand in the toes

Cheers