why do i love this texture?

it seems that it draws my attention....it seems to fill all of my senses.  i can smell the beach air, the weathered boardwalk, the salt. these are glimpses of the summer...

i can see the beach, feel the sand, smell the salt water and the lotion....sometimes coppertone lotion....which still takes me back to summers of my childhood....i can hear the seagulls, the clank of the lines on the boats' masts, i can hear the waves lapping gently or crashing boldly! i can feel the sand, pebbly or powdery soft....and i'm instantly transported to my favorite place.....of anywhere in the world.

pretty big, huh?  just weathered wood makes my mind travel. that's all it takes.

it's amazing. everyone has something.  sometimes, it's the texture of fabric....usually, it's color. i still remember the colors in a house in nantucket...a spring meadow green bedroom with the atlantic ocean as the backdrop and a summer sky blue with the magnificent meadow as the backdrop!  i was so blown away that my enthusiasm would have seemed insincere had our friends not known me and my love of color! 

sometimes, a lilt of a brogue can bring me back to ireland....i can feel the damp air by the water, smell the beer in a pub or see the faces of freckled irish children.

pebbles and rocks and sea glass and sand...all different from one beach to the next....every time i'm at the beach i can get lost in the close ups of some shells, rocks or pebbles....sea glass.

why? what moves you...almost to tears?   a brand new baby always gets me.  what could be more amazing than a new life.... just miraculous to think how something so spectacular can arrive in our arms and bring so much joy to so many!  to see or hold a new baby... a new life and all of the potential for this new, living being is breathtaking!

why? what moves you...almost to tears?   a brand new baby always gets me.  what could be more amazing than a new life.... just miraculous to think how something so spectacular can arrive in our arms and bring so much joy to so many!  to see or hold a new baby... a new life and all of the potential for this new, living being is breathtaking! 

 the photos above were taken last week.....while visiting the firefighters who delivered t.j., almost 14 years ago. 

we were all at the fire house looking at "t.j.'s engine" with the stork on it, when one of the guys' wives arrived with her 15 day old baby boy, i was awestruck...it was so moving to me to think that t.j. was smaller than that when our team of firefighters delivered him....the gift of life!

random but real.

 t.j.'s stork on engine #2.