see and know {it is good}...

as i lay on the beach today, enjoying what will be the first of many warm and sunny summer days ahead, a dear friend of mine was traveling through oregon with her sweet boys and hubby, on their way to WA.  she posted this photo...

it's SNOWING in oregon! 

and i was reminded about just how very awesome is our God...


I will put in the desert
the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive.
I will set junipers in the wasteland,
the fir and the cypress together,
so that people may see and know,
may consider and understand,
that the hand of the LORD has done this,
that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
isaiah 41:19-21

the day before the 4th of july...

chad and the girls came for the weekend, just like last summer! we went to folly on saturday (my brother tommy joined us) and it was CrAzY windy...the waves were blowing sideways, it made for some tough boogie boarding. afterwards we hit jack's cosmic dogs for loaded doggies...awesome!

summer oasis...

i hope to sit here soon, in my splendid summer oasis, if it will ever stop raining...

yesterday we went to the beach...nice.

today becky and i worked on lessons for church camp and then i took her to her birthday lunch at ladles. i've also been organizing all my photographs and scrapbooking supplies...that is taking forever...{sigh}...

but i did find my holga photos from the bahamas last summer! i will share those soon.

wish for no rain. and no mosquitos. those guys are pesky.

it's a sad, sad day...

...when the suntan lotions go away...boo-hoo!

before...


...after...

(but you know it's been a good summer when you're on your third bottle!)

holga goes to folly...

the wind, the waves...summer's end is floating in the breeze...

can you feel the love?...

we spent the whole afternoon at folly...

waves,

sun,

sand,

more sand,

boogie boarding.

friends,

family,

more friends.

icees,

watermelon,

homemade lowcountry salsa.

sun-kissed,

sun-burned,

sun-worshippers.

can you feel the love?

goodbye, june...

june, the first kiss of summer.
you've been good to us.

your arrival was extremely welcomed, and we wish (*sigh*) that you could have prolonged your visit.

we'll see you again next year.

beach day...

summer, take two...

wish you were here...

you can't help but smile...

...when you spend half your day in the wind and waves...

...and come home with a prize-stash of sharks' teeth!