Foggy Times by the Sea

Saturday December 8, 2012
Site 4 Gamble Rogers State Park
Flagler Beach, Florida

 

Friday December 7

 

 

December 7th is my birthday. (No snide remarks about Pearl Harbor Day please).  

I haven’t spent it at the beach in years and years and so I planned to be at the ocean front this year for my birthday.  I lived for several years in a house one block from the ocean on the North End of Virginia Beach and some of my fondest life memories are having the water so close all the time and the sunrise over it so available.

 

 

 

I’m up and out to start a day by the water on my birthday with the sunrise.  But the fog has rolled in BIG TIME.  No sunrise today.  Here’s how it looked at sunrise.

 

No sun all day in fact.  

What to do?   What would I like to do on my birthday in foggy drizzly weather? 

I honestly can’t think of a thing.  I’m shocked that the weather has deserted me.  Never mind how lucky we have been with the weather the entire time at Hunting Island.   I check the forecast and it looks like pay back time.  Fog, drizzle, rain for days.  Well they aren’t always right.

 

 

So I decide I’ll just use this ugly weather day to take care of some errands I need to run so that when it is beautiful tomorrow they’ll all be taken care of.  

And that’s what I do – holiday shopping.   Among my very LEAST favorite things to do is shopping, even grocery shopping.  But I have gifts I must get in the mail so………

This doesn’t seem like a camera worthy event so I leave mine at home but when I’m in a store looking for a sweater for my father and walk by these oh so classy 3” shiny silver lame shoes with gold lame heels, well out comes the phone.  I’m sorry they don’t show off to best advantage in this picture.  They were really something and compliment my Hunting Island birthday hoodie quite well don’tchathink??  They are SO me!

 

Well that brings a bit of sunshine into the afternoon  but the weather does not let up all day. Low 61, high 69 and fog, drizzle, rain.   STILL  that doesn’t mean I don’t get a birthday cake and cards and presents.

Well actually, a half sized cake.  Isn’t it cute.

 

In the evening it’s still drizzling we take a walk down main street anyway to see the lights.  Someone has moved in from Illinois and wins the most decorated award.

 

 

 

 

The drizzle picks up so it is time to pick up the pace for home.
Makes this picture look like snow though doesn’t it?  However the temperature is a lovely 61 degrees as the drizzle continues. 

 

 

 

Saturday December 8

 

Another foggy sunrise this morning. 

 

Again, we’re Socked in fog.  I go out running which isn’t much different with or without the fog since I can clearly see 3 feet ahead of me and that’s all that is necessary.

BUT the sun is finally able to burn it off by early afternoon and we take advantage of the time to get a few things done.

 

 

 

 

One of my birthday presents was 6 herbs and larger pots and potting soil to repot them with.  The latter two were things I picked out on my shopping day yesterday.  So I’m having great fun this afternoon being a gardener.  I’ve had years and years of practice with a huge garden at the farm so this is like play.  My garden is one of the only things I miss being on the road and I am looking forward to fresh herbs in all our vegan dishes without having to buy them in little packets in the produce department.  Thanks to Nancy Mills for the inspiration.

I’m very happy with the way they turn out and hope they’ll be happy in their new homes on the Winnona’s dash.

 

 

 

 

David goes to work setting up his holiday lights so Winnona won’t feel left in the dark here on main street.

 

 

 

 

 

He also ups the air in our bicycle tires.  They seem to lose air whether we ride them or not.  We love our portable compressor.

 

We finish these things and just about the time we decide to go for a stroll on the beach ….whoooosh…. back comes the fog.   No sunset tonight.

 

It rolls in quickly and brings that mist which makes everything damp.  Within 15 minutes, at 4:00 in the afternoon, this is the scene looking up Main Street

 

and down

 

Predictions are for more rain tonight.  Although so far, rain has meant drizzle not rain rain.  Guess we’ll wait and see what “partly cloudy and warm” means for tomorrow.  Whatever it is, we’ll be here to enjoy it.