Just Curious

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Macro

Michael and Lily are in Wisconsin, so that means it's time for my annual macro shoot of random things around the house. I'm practicing with artifical lighting and colored backgrounds. Tonight's theme: Stuff in My Makeup Drawer.

Summers Past

Our great week at the beach inspired me to look for old beach and pool photos.

Not sure where we are. Looks like the bay. That's Dad behind us fishing.

That's Lee striking some weird pose. I can guarantee she will call me immediately upon seeing this and demand it be removed. Again, not sure where we are - looks like a lake which means we must have been on a camping trip.

The pool in our Holbrook backyard.

Holbrook again. In the background is the playhouse that Dad, Bebop and Artie built for us. Many happy hours were spent in that playhouse. And many a crime committed there (again, Lee, I am sorry for cutting your head with the carpet sweeper bad enough to require stitches and convincing you - for 20 years - that Joanne Brendel did it. This counts as my official atonement.)

Almost all the cousins. Who's that boy in the back? Check out Aunt Sara's bathing cap.


Looks like a hotel swimming pool. This may be the last time I wore a bikini.

Mom overseeing a sand castle.

Goofing at the ocean.

Beach Day 7

Final full day at the beach and couldn't have asked for more perfect weather. We spent most of the day at the ocean.

Waiting for Mom and Dad to get ready for the beach.

Water was still cold!

And crazy full of jellyfish. Lots of poking with sticks.

Lily and her new friend Dylan collected hundreds of jellyfish.

Ooops.

Photographic proof Michael went boogie boarding.

Lily got really good at sand castles. (Nah, it was the grown ups next to us.)

Look what Lily wrote in the sand.

Getting ready for our last dinner now. Back to the Bad Bean for shrimp quesadillas, and, of course, ice cream.

Things I haven't touched all week: blowdryer, flat iron, hairbrush (in retrospect not so smart), high heels, blackberry (well, not during daylight hours), all the healthy food I brought ...

Beach Day 5

Nice and lazy.

We bought a boogie board. Actually, we bought two - promptly lost the first one - did we leave it on the roof of the car?

View from our umbrella.

Beach Day 4

Mike and Lily up early to walk Baci on the beach, Lee and I slept in. Then back to the ocean for the morning, lunch at home, and afternoon naps. While everyone slept I went to the fitness center and for a long bike ride. Afternoon/evening plans: swimming pool, then back to the Bad Bean for fish tacos and that great $6.99 margarita.

On the trolley to the beach.

Wave jumping.

Hot.

An elaborate sandcastle. The parking lot and apartments for the castle workers are in the foreground.

Beach Day 3

Today: ocean, pizza for lunch overlooking the sound, ice cream and sno-cones, 2 hour naps (for the grown ups), 2 hours of tv (for Lily), swimming pool, bicycling, ice cream (yes, for the 2nd time in one day - it's vacation).

Lil did a great job on her new birthday bike.