good morning you fabulous campers!....well it's been a bit since i have written a post....got alittle preoccupied with kids and grands visiting, or going to visit them......summer is always a very non scheduled time here.....we have been beaching it alot.....well anytime i am near the beach it's definitely beach time........
so the last couple of times i was at the beach i took my sketch book and drew waves......sounds easy enough, but much harder than you think.....i mean you think "it's a wave, how hard is that?"......but water is ever changing and waves don't stand still unless you photograph them, but then you are losing the whole "plein-air" thing...which refers to outdoors.....so if you say plein air painting, it's painting outdoors......but i was doing a more plein air sketching....or basically sketching outdoors...ha ha..... anyway, so i'm sitting there watching the waves trying to retain what i saw for a brief second and then sketch it........i think the waves were laughing at me and saying to each other....."hey let's bring the white foam over in the middle....oh no let's drop down on the side.....how bout i just fizzle out?".........good times.....well i was at the beach so yeah it was good times......... and while watching the waves i was also watching how everyone interacts with the ocean too....so there are different groups of beach goers....probably many more groups but these were kinda the basics...........you've got the cowabunga crowd....they just run into the water and take the ocean head on....crashing into the waves, diving into the waves, laughing their heads off, etc............then there is the sit or stand and watch crowd....they stand or sit near the edge of the water but don't want to get too wet, they enjoy their space beside the ocean without really submersing in the ocean, they like to watch whats going on..............then you have the jump the waves crowd....usually young kids, they stand at the edge of the water and jump the waves coming in or run from them when they crash on the beach....they have so much fun getting wet but not feeling the need to get completely submersed..........then you have the sandy engineers....they love to build and dig and make stuff in the sand....they love sand all over them, ........you have the beach explorers.....they like their feet to get wet and don't mind a little sand, but they like to keep moving, they like to hunt for shells, sea glass, driftwood, and any other treasure the ocean gives them........there are the clean up crowd....they walk the beach too but in search of trash to pick up...........i can say i have been all these groups in 1 day.........if i have the grands i'm definitely cowabunga dude....unless it's cold, i don't do well with cold water.....with the young grands i'm jump the waves.....always love to be a sandy engineer....and exploring and picking up trash will happen all the time too........there's not much to be bored with at the beach, always something for everyone.......in my opinion it's the best place in the world......love the beach a couple years ago, my bff and myself were at ....where else...the beach....and we're just enjoying the ocean and the beach......my bff is off walking her dogs......and i'm laying on the sand watching the little crabs come out of their holes.....ya know the ones that creep out of their holes then flick sand out of the holes......so funny.......anyway, i'm just laying there and i have little pieces of sea oats around me and i toss a sea oat and the little crab runs to get it.......i'm like what???.....so i toss some more and they go get those.......euerka! i have taught the crabs to play fetch!!!.........oh my gosh, so much fun (obviously i'm easily entertained)......i layed there playing fetch with the crabs, toss a little sea oat to the side of them and they run over and get it........ when my bff came back and we got her dogs to not chase the crabs, i showed her my new expertise......it's hillarious.....we layed there all morning playing fetch with the crabs.........good times! it's so good to have a bff who likes to lay in the sand and watch crabs....groovy......... i have also layed in hammocks and watched ants do their thing, very mesmerizing....or if you lay on your couch and watch the dust float through the air through the sunbeams........kind of meditative too i gather....maybe i was meditating with the crabs?.....hmmmmm....definitely meditative watching the waves...or i could just be lazy i wonder if that's what God thinks as He's watching us....well besides alot of slaps on His forehead pertaining to me of ...."not again??!!".....but besides that.....maybe we all need a little lazy, meditative, time where we just take in the little things going on around us....peaceful and tranquil........or we just yell "cowabunga dude, i'm jumping in!!!".....just make sure the ocean doesn't fizzle out, cause wet sand is very hard! be groovy!
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