Flock namesThanks to Melissa Mayntz’s post of collective nouns for bird groups.
Sunrise glow-Carolina Beach, North Carolina
Tag: beach
Carolina Beach Dawn
Weekly Photo Challenge- GLOW created by Jen H. this week.
This photo glows to me. Here are Anna and Maura greeting the sun. (Unretouched image)
Just happened to have spent last weekend with the family at Carolina Beach, NC and we got up each morning to watch the sun rise . One day was overcast but we enjoyed our early breakfast and waiting for the light to come.
Oh, no!
Photographed by son Mark- guest blog. 
Maura read the sign. Mark photographed her. Carolina Beach, North Carolina- the Boardwalk. (My sister said, “think of all the calories saved”)
Weekly Photo Challenge: Scale
The weekly photo challenge by Erica V. at WordPress is scale.
“Experiment with placement and scale to show how big (or small) you can feel in a photo.”
A family collaborative effort-
Yesterday at the beach, Maura (8+) “holds” her sister Anna (14yo 5’9″tall)
Beach Textures
Sea Turtle Dig at Sunrise
6:30 AM- Sea Turtle Patrol Volunteer arrives
The dig commences
The results of the dig –
97 broken eggshells evidence of live turtles hatching
2 eggs not viable, Not hatched
0 live turtles present in the bottom of the funnel, which is a good thing- they all made it out
Dense: Weekly Photo Challenge
Dense is the weekly Photo Challenge at WordPress
From Florida trip in February – this photo came to mind when I saw the word of the week dense
Chicken Leg\ Drumstick Seashell
It sure looked like a piece of fried chicken to me
Sea Glass -Guest Blog
Remember Joanne sent the beach glass yarn the other day? She contributed the Nova Scotia posts this past week, the Loonies and Toonies Store in Lunenburg.
She wrote and mailed some photos below after I asked her about the glass she finds on the beach in Florida.
Joanne says –
1. I walk the beach almost every day, and I’m always on the lookout for sea glass – this was a lucky day because often there is none to be found. Most common colors are clear, green, and brown. Least common colors are cobalt blue, red and purple.
2. Here’s my collection of shells and sea glass. The tiny colorful glass in the lower right hand shell on the table comes from a beach in Spain (collected by my sister). And the tiny glass in the upper right hand shell on the table comes from a beach in Nova Scotia. All the rest from the beach here on the Atlantic Ocean side of Florida.
3. My friend Celia separates her sea glass treasures by color and displays them on her kitchen counter.
4. Since Hurricane Matthew, Celia and I find lots of large shards of glass, bottles, and lightbulbs among the debris on the beach. Celia collects this for a future art project she calls “Hurricane Glass”. 
Link below to Jessica Blaney’s ETSY Shop below if you need handcrafted sea glass jewelry
