Rock Doves

Water Weave

This webwork boggles the mind, I've never stared at it long enough to find out if it would hypnotize me, but I should. These are Sebago shallows, the ones here at Ocean Grove were thick with pulverized jellyfish today - the clear kind. They hit the legs with force like a hail of rubber pellets, got caught between the toes. My daughter was unable to get them out of her hair, some are still in her mop, dessicated. They'll expand when it rains.

People here were allowed into the water up to their knees, but many went in deeper, keeping these very patient life guards on their toes.

jersey emblem

...from one of the old state fair buildings in Hamilton NJ. I'm wondering what those three things that look like sleds crossed with windmills are. Plows with sails?

Housekeeping in Beach Haven

On Sunday haze blanketed the Atlantic on our section of Long Beach Island and created this strange halo effect over the ocean. It was almost a rainbow. What atmosphere, like finding oneself in a Guy Maddin movie, or on a ghost beach, as my daughter called it. I wonder if it had anything to do with the heat of the air and the nerve splintering cold of the water.

I didn't want the weekend to end. Here's some elements to help me suspend time a bit with help from my camera, which I didn't drop it in the water this time.

There was an odd quick karma event on Saturday when I got up, at some point my husband brought me a cup of coffee with no milk or sugar. I made a farce of complaining, but anyway there was no sugar because I hadn't brought any. I guzzled it down black, then went off to get beach passes at the office. I went in to find no one there, and all I could hear was someone taking a shower. I kept saying "hello? hello?" It was eerie. Finally a woman came in and I told her I was sorry if I had pulled her away from something. She said it was fine, she just hadn't had time to put her milk and sugar in her coffee.

I hope all of us who like coffee light and sweet get our milk and sugar. And if not, then at least some sand and salt water.

Fun Frolic & Fellowship in Wildwood

The Tall Cedars paraded through Wildwood New Jersey, Saturday, May 31. I hear there aren't as many of these Freemasons, who came to the shore for their convention, as there used to be.