The Ocean

My parents are living near the ocean now. They frequently took us on vacation to the ocean growing up, though we lived in a land-locked state. It's a good place to go.

Earlier in the summer, I created this masterpiece with the help of my niece and my nephew who collected decorative items.This weekend, they also made quite the collection of dead horseshoe crabs. This is the group, minus a couple more they squeezed in before getting their hand wipes. :-)
And this is one of the lighthouses near my parents. It was a beautiful day on Saturday, which makes up for the RAIN today!
Some lyrics for you...

When I went to your town on the wide open shore,
Oh I must confess, I was drawn to the ocean,
I thought it spoke to me, it said, "Look at us,
We're not churches, not schools, not skating ponds, swimming pools,
And we have lost people, haven't we though?"
Oh, that's what the ocean can know of a body,
And that's when I came back to town, this town is a song about you.
You don't know how lucky you are, you don't know how much I adore you,
You are the welcoming back from the ocean.