A Day at the Beach

This summer, Thomas and I picked up Lance at Camp LeJeune, after he had put in two weeks with the Marines.  We took the opportunity to do a little shore-line vacationing while we were there, visiting Cape Lookout lighthouse, Wilmington, and Carolina Beach.

On the USS Carolina Battleship

Adjusting the trunks

Feeling the waves...

...and the sand underneath

A beautiful shell!

"Hey, this would make a great drawbridge!"

Installing the drawbridge 

Instructing Daddy on the best way to build a moat 

The finished castle!

And a favorite poem by e.e. cummings:

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach (to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang

 so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles, and

milly befriended a stranded star

whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing

which raced sideways while blowing bubbles; and

may came home with a smooth round stone

as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)

it's always ourselves we find in the sea