The last dance of the summer season in Cannon Beach on Saturday, September 26 was perfect. It’s taken me a week to write about it partly because the effect it’s had on me has been a profound one. I hope to capture and share with you in a few words what I mean by profound and then I’m just going to let the photographs I took with a [...]

I am a sunshine-lovin’, summertime sizzlin’ type of gal who gets a wee bit melancholy when the leaves begin to fall, the light starts to fade and the temperature drops considerably. So imagine my profound glee when we had not one, but two eighty-degree days of bikini-wearing weather earlier this week. I certainly hope the sun and warm temperatures are staying put for the weekend. I sure [...]

Last Saturday night, we were treated to the kind of sky show you see here in the picture off to the right. This was taken just a few moments after the sun had set. I was trying my darndest to get a shot off before that glorious orange orb sank into the horizon, but I couldn’t get my camera out in time to catch it. It’s [...]

Even though there’s still another three weeks until Autumn is officially here on the calendar, the changing of the seasons is already well under way. The leaves are slowly, ever-so slowly beginning to change color. There’s a slight chill in the air that’s present in the morning and at a night that wasn’t there before. It’s not so much the shades of yellow, orange and red nor [...]

This past weekend’s events made me especially happy. Although this photograph was taken during the July 3 Beach Dance, it accurately depicts how I was feeling Friday night and Saturday morning. How could I not be enthused and excited when so many people choose to spend part of their weekend dancing on the beach? We had nine people at each event and many were first-time beach dancers.
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