Enjoying the last days of winter

Spring/summer is coming. That means the crowds are heading back to the Cape. We definately spend more time at the beach from fall to spring...we stay home more in the summer, away from the crowds and traffic.

This is the Sandwich boardwalk during low tide. It leads you across the marsh to a beach. Notice the lack of crowds.

Scout had asked to go to the beach. Seamus came along for the walk.

During high tide the water comes right up to the boardwalk.

You can paddle here and, during high tide, jump off the boardwalk.

The boardwalk was built by selling planks. Everyone was sold.

Notice the bump out. During the summer these are needed for carraiges and people to get by each other.

Looking across the marsh into the bay.

One tired little girl...

one happy dog!

Life is Good...enjoying the last of winter.

A trip to the beach, a lesson in death

We had a great day at the beach and an opportunity to talk about death.

Scout said the day before she wanted to see the water. Already she is a Cape girl.

We loaded everyone in the truck and headed out. We are so lucky that one of our (yes, one. WE have 3 ocean and 3 pond beaches!) town beaches is Sandy Neck . It is 7 miles long, we can camp there, build fires, drive the jeep on and ride the horses. As you can see the dogs can enjoy it too.

We LOVE collecting treasures.

The landscape looks different every time. Today, lots of smooth stones and tumbled shells.

Finding crab shells

Walking Seamus

We believe death is part of life. It is something that should be talked about as easily as anything else in your life. There are photos of a dead dolphin coming up. If you don't want to see them stop looking now.

We came upon this dolphin on the beach. It was a great opportunity to talk about death. What you talk about is personal to you and your family and not important here. We talked about it. At the same time we talked about it's body parts and how it swam. It all seemed normal to Scout.

Living in the woods and on a farm we will continue to have these opportunities. We will continue to talk about it.

This one was about 75 yards away from the first. It was much smaller, maybe a baby.  We talked about bones and felt our own bones.

We learn something everyday, each night we marvel in all the learning opportunities that we encountered throughout the day. The life of an unschooler...Life is Good!

Beach Day

Today seemed like a great day for the beach. Scout and I took the dogs and headed to the beach for a walk. Scout did not want to go into the back pack, she wanted to walk. First she walked Ace, on his leash...she loves walking the animals. Then we looked for treasures. Today there were lots of crab shells and claws and lots of stones. We stopped so she could throw stones into the ocean and then get down on her hands and knees to rub her hands in the huge piles of stones.

It was a great time to talk about footprints. She could look behind her and see her own, and mine and then we searched for Ace and Seamus prints. She saw the tire tracks and said "jeep". I love seeing her face when she is discovering something new. You can just see the information soaking into her brain.

We saw gulls and terns and...

SEALS!! They were traveling along the shore. Heads kept popping up as we traveled down the beach. The weather was great and the dogs were happy to be able to run on the beach again. LIFE IS GOOD.

Art at the beach

When the weather gets hot what is better then art at the beach?!

Looking for treasures,

watching the snails crawl back into the sea,

Little piggies find a shell,

searching for treasures in the water,

The mosaic they made with their treasures!

She already loves the sea