Beach Music

It's a rainy evening here at the beach.

We knew it was coming,

so took two really nice walks

on the beach 

earlier in the day.

Above is one of the many small pieces 

I am stitching on:

hand-dyed and screen-printed,

now being embellished

with hand-dyed threads.

Lunch at Up the Creek

in Apalachicola

began with these extremely fresh oysters:

boy, were they ever awesome!

I also enjoyed Yellow Fin Sushi

on jasmine rice.

mmmmmm!

our afternoon beach romp:

Barker has never been a retriever,

but Bosco is.

He loves the ball thrower,

and it is fantastic at the beach!

It really tires him out,

and keeps him from pestering Barker.

I started a second eco-dyeing dye pot this afternoon:

As Jeannie says, it looks like fabric cioppino!

I was grabbing every little scrap of driftwood

and kelp that I could find

on our afternoon walk.

I can't wait to see how this one will turn out.

The first one looks good,

but I'm not unwrapping it just yet.

And last, but by all means not least,

here is last night's sunset:

It seems to be a tradition 

that folks in these parts

(boy, do I sound 'southern' or what?)

gather on the beach just before sunset,

cocktail/beer in hand.

So you can see several parties

awaiting the green flash.

One group had a little bonfire going -

don't know if you can see it.

Due to the rain,

there was no sunset here tonite.

I'm ok with that:

we were granted two thus far.

peace to you, dear reader