Virginia Is For Families

We arrived at the beach yesterday and were amazed to see our building covered in green drapes!  It’s undergoing a facelift and there is scaffolding over much of it.  See the photos for a better idea of the situation.

Beth pointed out to me that you can stand in a room and look at a wall socket and see. . .

Daylight!

Nice.  And the “windows” are covered with plastic.  Fortunately it only got down to forty something last night and there wasn’t much wind up here.  But who knows what it will do tonight!  My lovely wife keeps telling me it’s an adventure.

And we did have a very nice day after the rain cleared out.  We walked the boardwalk and went out to dinner.  Then we got under the blankets and watched Carolina dismantle Michigan State in the NCAA basketball finale.   Congrats to our ACC!

I woke up at six this morning and headed for the beach to take some photos.  It was pretty cold but that didn’t prevent a couple of surfers from heading out into the surf with their wet suits and gloves.

I found a perch and took a few photos of the birds,  our denuded building and the US Corps of Engineers dredging Rudee’s Inlet.  Lots of maintenance going on as the beach folk prepare for another vacation season.

Hopefully somebody will arrive once it is all completed.

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It’s still winter.  And we were having a lot of very cold rain yesterday.  I am still sick although I am happy to say things are much improved and a full recovery may be only a few days away.

The economy is still having a problem although things seem to be stabilized a bit.

I took a photo last fall of the local NBC affiliate’s sports guy interviewing the Suntrust Richmond Marathon’s winner.   He has been doing his job here in town for almost thirty years .

And he got laid off!   When you are almost old enough to retire  you are really vulnerable!

I am still a blogger although not a very good one right now.   I’m still looking through photos I took last summer.

It’s very quiet this morning as the sun has not yet made an appearance.  Everyone is still sleeping here .   The earth is still sailing through space as it rotates on its imaginary axis.

Here’s a photo that I just finished editing.   It is an attempt on my part to portray ” stillness”.

Things are still moving as they must on our traveling planet.  But they are doing so in a peaceful way.  There are no abrupt changes in my vicinity.

There is no sign of the stock market crashing or an abrupt change of one sort or another anywhere.

Christopher Cross
Play Sailing

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Is it too late to look at some photos from last summer? The dog days of August were not so long ago. As we dive into the cold days of January I thought it would be fun to remember those moments when we got down to the bare essentials and basked in the sun.

Of course if you are living in Australia or many other places not associated with Virginia these photos may be much more relevant to your present existence.

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More Beach Photos

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Beth reminded me that the Neptune Festival is happening next weekend at Virginia Beach.   And there will definitely be photo taking opportunities there.  It’s difficult to believe that a year has gone by since the last festival.  There are photos here from that competition.  Hopefully this year I will be able to gain a little different perspective while clicking away.

I had to laugh when I was going over some photos taken last July.  What is that thing out in the water?  Is it Jaws?

I never noticed it before but there is a dolphin out there.  Maybe he is watching the people having fun on the beach.   Maybe he is curious.