It's Saturday! I Have The Beach On My Mind

This beautiful Vintage Linen Postcard can be purchased from my Etsy Shop PostcardsInTheAttic at http://ow.ly/ceIEY

It’s Saturday and I don’t really feel like talking about rocks this morning.  I have had the beach life on my mind all week so let’s find some shells.  There is nothing like beachcombing the shore of an abundant beach.  Unfortunately Pismo has so many aggressive seagulls that smash and bash the shells trying to get out the meaty little morsels that the wonderful sand dollars are usually only pieces.   I did find just a couple of nice shells while on our honeymoon but it was also more challenging because there were so many more people there over the holiday.

This wondeful oil painting on canvas can be purchased from Etsy shop DMiller at http://ow.ly/ceIYi

A wonderful digital photo from Etsy shop SueOlsonPhoto at http://ow.ly/ceJ1z

Seashells, just like postcards, have always symbolized travel to me.  I would collect as many as I could as a kid and people would even gift them to me when they would come back from their adventures.  I would love to look at them and dream about what wonderful salt water creature lived in them and dream about walking on the beach and seeing for myself all of these amazing shells.  It had taken me until I was well into my 30’s to walk along a real ocean shoreline but I am so blessed now to finally be in an area that is only a drive away from the Western Coast line.

This wonderful photograph can be purchased from Etsy shop, MyBeachWishes, at http://ow.ly/ceIys

Unfortunately I have found that finding shells are not quite as easy as in my dreams and that some beaches do not yield any solid seashells at all.  But it is still the beach and I still get to play in the sand and sun.

So here is to seashells and beach fun; I really hope soon that I won’t just be a visitor but I’ll be living it large on the shores someday!  Go California Lotto!

A Treasured Wednesday

Well we made it through to another Wednesday and at the end of this day most of us will be on the downward side of the hill moving towards another weekend.  Unfortunately for me my work week starts on Tuesday so today just means I survived my first day back at work.  It is so amazing to me how fast time really goes.  One minute I am on the beach with my new husband and the next I am back into the routine; seems like we never skipped a beat.

But the memories will last forever and it was a beautiful moment in my life.  While there are many, a couple of my favorite were when I seen a whale come up out of the ocean for the first time.  It was quite far out and I could only catch a quick blurry picture; it was so breathtaking to actually think that I was able to see this for first hand while sitting on the sandy beach.  I was also able to catch some shots of Sea Otters (one of my favorite animals) and a couple great shots of Sea Lions.  While fairly easy to spot, the Pelicans were another one of my favorites.
These are things that I had only dreamed of seeing and never in my Midwest life thought I would have had a chance to see any of it first hand.

Here are a couple of quick shots:

Morro Bay, CA

Morro Bay, CA

Morro Bay, CA

Morro Bay, CA

Sorry that this one is hard to see but at the left you can see the whale's tail.  Pismo Beach, CA

I will share more about the Wedding on Sunday (when I don't have to work) and can spend more time picking out my pictures.  This may have been one of the most simple weddings by it truly was my dream wedding and I couldn't be happier.

Now onto my Kudos to the great Artists and Curators I find on Etsy and Artfire:

Summer Blues

Curated By: TheLivingArt

ArtFire.com

Handmade Gifts

Ocean Dreaming

Curated By: LibertyImages

ArtFire.com

Indie Design