CATS IN BOX, PENTATONIX, ARTS BUILDING MEMORIES & A BEACH WARM UP-THE WEEKENDER

THIS IS MORE THAN CURIOSITY

    Hemingway and Joy love boxes. A container from a trip to our "big box" store was temporarily put in the garage, pending it's filling with Christmas lights.  We didn't move quickly enough.These two rascals decided to encamp there, together! Put a box in the garage and immediately a curious cat is inspecting it from the inside.

DAYS OF MEMORY

    Our friend Lew sent along a summer scene of the Arts Building Terrace at Ball State University. It's a place of special significance to Lana and me.  Her art classes were in this hall as were my political science courses. I addressed a

throng of students who filled the lawn at an early Earth Day celebration and spoke to another crowd while running as a class officer candidate.  

    This was also a green that filled with sun and nap takers, lunch breakers, and romance makers.  It is also a gorgeous building and sits as a boundary to what was once the center of the campus. Could it really have been that long ago?!

                             A PARTING MELODY

   Charles Dickens was right.  Regardless of faith or belief, we should keep Christmas in our heart all year.  Here's a unique take on a seasonal classic.  Enjoy

Cheers!
A TRIP TO SHAMEL BEACH

    As many of you suffer through winter's icy blast, we offer

a few moments of light and sea from California's central coast at Cambria's Shamel Park beach.

   Hope this warmed you a bit and perhaps evoked memories of land without snow and ice.

    See you down the trail.

DRIFTWOOD BUILDERS

DRIFTWOOD DREAMS

      One of the all time great driftwood beaches is the stretch from Shamel Park to Moonstone Beach in Cambria.  

       I wonder what tourists do with all of the pieces they haul off the beach.  I imagine mobiles, picture frames and other art creations populate homes and serve as souvenirs.

     Some of the building though, never leaves the Moonstone, Shamel Park beaches.

     Here's a quick look at a couple of nearly "permanent" driftwood castles.

See you down the trail.

A GOOD DEED

CLEANING SAND AT THE BEACH?

 Moonstone Beach-Shamel Park

 Deed, well done.
But first, the story.

The objective-

 clearing steps

 just over the rise

 at the end of the walk

 an endless supply on Moonstone Beach.

 Dirty steps meet Lana

 Recycling sand for a project

 She reasons

two little buckets won't be missed.

More walks off on shoes.

See you down the trail.