This video was taken as a storm was working its way up the East Coast last summer. The ocean at the NJ shore is usually fairly calm, but the impending storm, though hundreds of miles away, was seen in the churning, large waves of the ocean that day.
What’s your favorite ice-cream, frozen yogurt or sorbet flavor?
Coffee Chip or Mint Chip
How often do you people watch?
All the time. At the beach, in a park, Times Square in NYC is great for people watching.
If you had a choice which would be your preference salt water beaches, fresh water lakes, ocean cruise, hot tub, ski resort or desert?
Salt water beach hands down. Don’t like lakes at all, that dark water creeps me out. No way would I go on a cruise, I like my feet on terra firma, hot tubs are full of germs and who knows what else- I don’t care how much chlorine they say is in there, skiing it’s too cold and the desert is too hot.
What did you appreciate or what made you smile this past week?
Another Monday spent at the ocean with my friend. Sitting at the edge of the water and watching the waves and smelling the salt air.
I am really an iced coffee drinker, only rarely will I have an iced tea. Sunday I went to a street fair when I spotted this man drinking an iced tea- most likely in an attempt to stave off the 85 degree heat!
We live a short drive from the Hudson River, which divides New Jersey and New York. It runs 315-miles (507 km) and flows from the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate New York, through the Hudson Valley of NY, and eventually drains into the Atlantic Ocean, between New York City and Jersey City. The river is named after Henry Hudson, an Englishman sailing for the Dutch East India Company, who explored it in 1609. We cross it via the George Washington Bridge to get into NYC…
or sometimes visit a park that overlooks it
Sometimes we sit alongside it in Nyack, NY
Here it runs through the Bear Mountain Bridge in the distance
We walked across on the the Walkway Over the Hudson in Poughkeepsie, NY….here is the view
and we have crossed it via the Rip Van Winkle Bridge farther North, here it is looking down at it.
No matter where we find it its beauty is always the same
Sunshine in the West as it slowly makes its descent
Sunshine in the morning, rising in the East
Sunshine at Noon casting its glow along the beach
Join the July Photo Challenge-A Photo a Day
NUTHATCH! White-breasted Nuthatches are active, agile little birds with an appetite for insects and large, meaty seeds. They get their common name from their habit of jamming large nuts and acorns into tree bark, then whacking them with their sharp bill to “hatch” out the seed from the inside. They forage for insects hidden in or under bark by climbing along tree trunks and branches, sometimes upside-down. White-breasted Nuthatches may be small but their voices are loud, and often insistent.
To see a wonderful photo of a Nuthatch eating out of the hand of my blogging friend Dawn-click here
Nuthatches are usually skittish, but obviously this one new Dawn was a friend.
For the Sunday Stills challenge to celebrate the first week in July, Terri asks us to share our favorite thing about summer. We can simply share one photo of our favorite summer experience or wow her with a gallery of what summer means to us.
My favorite thing about summer is spending days at the Ocean. We live a little over an hours drive from the NJ Shore and try to get there at least once a week if not more. Sometimes we will stay overnight which allows me to watch the sunrise over the ocean and begin the day in quiet solitude. I am always in awe seeing the sun rise over the ocean, marking the true beginning of another day.
Fun is going to the beach and running into your friend there!
Join the fun each day in July!
I have chosen birds that are not colorful, as I couldn’t bring myself to turn the colorful ones into black and white. Even though the Titmouse and Solitary Sandpiper are gray and white and a brownish and white color, they are still beautiful in their own right, in my opinion.
Titmouse
Solitary Sandpiper
This photo of me is timeworn, it was taken in 1961. 
But somehow the doll has survived and stayed with me these many years later, though she is time worn too.
Below a tree a baby Robin sat perched in singing
From below a Cherry Blossom tree
Below someNYC skyscrapers through the sunroof of the car
A Day In The Life 
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