(originally published on July 26, 2013)

Day Five:

• waking up to much, much cooler temperatures and actually looking forward to an indoor day
• wearing an only-at-the-beach outfit: pale grey light sweater and white yoga pants with flip flops
• taking the super long lead to the beach for Tipper to run as much as she wanted
• picking up all the plastic trash from the beach and depositing it in the recycling bin
• finding a tiny skeleton of a snake? an eel? at the beach
• comfort food on a chilly (!) day
• a snuggly puppy looking for warmth
• a long nap nestled in the magical "sleeping chair"
• ... followed by a bowl of ice cream
• reading, reading, reading
• watching our neighbor tend his dahlias dressed in a sweatshirt and Hawaiian lei
• realizing at the end of the day that you did little more than stare into space and wishing there were more days like that

And this:
"Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy."
--Karen Thompson Walker, The Age of Miracles