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Her Tomato Plants

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Our vacation house is the one in the middle.

Sunset Over Our House

But I can’t help but think of the home next door tonight. That beautiful home on the left is just that…a home. Not a vacation home…it is a single family, year round home, complete with tomato garden. I spoke briefly to the owner while we were there three weeks ago as she tended to her lovely garden. And tonight that was the first thought I had…not concern for her beautiful property…no, I got choked up over the likely loss of her beautiful tomato plants, so lovingly tended.

Hoping she and her family have evacuated as they were supposed to.

Tonight my thoughts are there, so I will share “there” with you.

Our Daily Path from the House

Take Flight

Dave and His Girls

Alex Flying a Kite

Mom and Ella

“The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ocean Storm

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This has been the summer of powerful, yet beautiful storms, and I have never seen a storm roll in the way this one did on Sunday at our beach house in Ocean City, New Jersey.  With the first rumbles of thunder, we packed up all the stuff we had lugged down to the beach.  Luckily we did, because within an hour, the bubbling clouds began moving toward the shore from behind us.  For the longest time nothing happened, and I was able to shoot these photos from our front deck.  When it finally came, it came with a vengeance…the sky grew dark, and the lightning flashed from sky to ocean, thunder booming from the center of the Earth.  It lasted for hours, hailing at times, yet we felt quite safe in the house, watching the storm from our windows.  I think without trees around to judge the wind speed, it seemed a bit less threatening than the storms at home do.  Fortunately that was the last of the bad weather, and the rest of the week was wonderful, with cooperative skies and beautiful sunrises and sunsets.  What a show.