At the beach

We've been at the beach!! My favorite place! Walking, boogie boarding, bocce, board games, seefood (as in see food eat food- my sisters-in-law put out a never ending spread!), fireworks (it was the Fourth of July after all) campfires on the beach, and I even got some work done on our manuscript!
The beach is the land of the constantly sloping horizon. It's so hard to get the horizon level, so you'll have to forgive the sloping horizon in these pictures. We had a whole week from July 3 to 10. Everyone was there except F. She called and sounded pretty glum, but I'm sure she is so preoccupied with her program that she didn't suffer too much. Stopped and saw her performance in SF on the way home Saturday. Took her and her friend D to dinner. The show was long and we didn't get home till midnight.
Unfortunately, I won't have much time to savor this vacation, as duty calls and its back to work. I have a nice pile of beach stones on my desk as a reminder, and of course a beach scene for wallpaper.