Another Fine Day!

We have been in Maine awhile, and since we have been here is has had a total of, I think 4 days of sun. Yesterday we visited a beautiful park and walk 3.5 miles in and 3.5 miles out, not to mention the walking on the beach.

Now I have been all over the country and let me tell you each one speaks of different time and picturest beauty. I love the sandy beaches of the West coast and South, mostly for building sand castles and just play.

However the rocky beach are full of discovery. The life in the water speaks of different elements and times. The kids just love the little water pools streaming with aquatic life, the little sea animals trapped in the tide pools really make their day. It has truly been an adventure that will be talked about for years to come.

I love Faces Beach Contest!

Ok, here it is. Week 29's contest is all about The Beach!

I find that I love the beach more then you can know. We have spent some of the most wonderful times as a family there. I found that some of the kids most precious memories are of the beach. We are in Maine this week and we went over to a National Wild Life refuge that is about 10 miles down the road. When we got there, it still had a fine mist over the beach and my oldest son was helping my youngest walk down the rocks to the water to explore. This was such a precious piture to me. There is 8 years age diffrence with the two of them, the little one adores his big brother.

Fun In The Sun

When you think of fun I think of beaches, swimming and time with family and friends. When I was a little girl. My mom and dad invested in a Nikon camera, 35 mm. Now they consider it a dinasour. I have had my share of cameras and learned a lot from my dad in taking pictures and just from reading, since that is what you do when you want to be the best. Then the next step is to pratice. I have entered contest over the years and have had a lot of great sucess. I love to know someone besides myself things it is a pretty great picture. Anyhow, I have found a great site that is all about pictures. It is call I love faces.


Anyhow they do lots of contests and lot of fun things for beginners. Take a look around and get some help, ideas etc.

Time in Maine

Man oh Man.

This is one of the most beautiful places on earth. The weather is wonderful. Even though it has been rainy it does warm up and get sunny in the afternoon. The walk in the afternoon on the beach is always a true adventure. The kids excitement is beyond words.

The other day we want on an adventurous walk to explore the rocks. We hopped down the rocks to the slimy seaweed covered rocks, to learn that if you don't plan your foot right then your butt will be planted just right after your fall.

The little ones took a couple spills just to make sure they the best walk they could get. So our adventure was to go down and find crabs, muscles, any kind of sea life, and my favorite is finding sea glass. So off we go. It is truly amazing to see that little island are created just by muscle shells. Indian legend is that they would take the shells in boat and dump them in the sea and create island, and there are island that are just muscle shells and that is it.

So walking down on the sea line has been fun seeing the crabs and the brine shrimps. We have found parts of lobsters but haven't found a whole one. Unless you count buying them. It has been fun to just get out and explore the sea side.

I think the best part of the walk was when they actually thought they could get out on the water line to find themselves swallowed into the mud. The suction that held them there was amazing. So here you have kids stuck in the mud and laughing, into an almost panic state. You not wanting to get muddy. Yell stay calm we will get you out.

So you send the siblings out after said sunk sibling. They pull and tug and finally get them out of the mud. Shoe are an option. However we have found over trial and error that if you sink with them on then you might as well kiss them goodbye, unless you are willing to dig for them. So here we are on a wonderful summer adventure of mud bugging.

We have learn a few important things here. I have found that no matter if they rinse in the water they still smell of fish. No matter how many times you think that they will stay clean that is when they get the dirtiest. So you let them have fun and know that there is always a show to clean them up and soap to make them smell better. In the end of the day the memories that they have and can share are priceless.