Wanderlust

This song has a long and interesting history, originating with a slower version (with better instrumentals!) by The Carter Family, which did not include the famous cups.

But I also enjoy this version, for the clear tones, and of course the video. I wouldn't mind telling the grindstone where to shove it today, but I'm trying to remember that enough of this will finally buy me some of that. Plan B is a gypsy caravan and a lesser attachment to showers.

A Long Shore

Off a long stretch of busy road near where I live, there is an unobtrusive little pull off. The kind you stop at to find your phone, or remove some jerk in a hurry from your backside. But if you step out of the car a little path takes you to a secret beach, of surpassing loveliness.

Even in the summer its rare to run into other people here. At high tide the beach nearly disappears, at low you have access to miles of land not to be reached even by car.

When the perfect combination of tide, weather and free time comes I can't wait to follow the stretch of shore as far as possible. I wonder want it holds?

Its also a marvelous place to find beach glass! Which we've got a collection of in jars on the mantle.

The Varied World

 "I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life admidst it's perils." Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte

 The gray dreary weather has me feeling closed in today, but I've been trying to get out in the few dry moments with good friends, or just a camera, to capture the beauty that is still there, just a bit damp.