We have been missing in action…..life has been busy and blogging was on a back burner.
I had 4 weeks of back to back company visiting the cottage at the end of the summer and into the fall. I love visitors any time of the year but normally our visitors arrive early to mid-summer when the garden is prettier and the cottage a little more spiffy. So the late visitors have thrown me off schedule a little and jumped right into a busy fall.
I retuned back home to load up the car and head to New York City to attend a family wedding and to visit Andrea the "Broome" half of this blog. We haven't driven to NYC in several years, it is a long drive from Michigan, 10 to 12 hours depending on the dreaded road construction. But we had a few pieces of furniture to deliver to Andrea. The visit was great and the wedding beautiful. Now I am trying to transit back home after spending the summer at the cottage, never an easy process for me.
These photos seemed like the the perfect way to wrap up the summer by Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan is always a source of beauty and amazement to me. The lake is different every day. It can be dark with crashing waves or it can be peaceful like I experienced recently. We had a few days of the rain and when it cleared out it left Lake Michigan still and clam with hardly a ripple.
During a walk down the beach I discovered a love note of sorts that someone left behind. A beautiful heart out of collected stones. You can see the rain pelted the sand around the heart.
I had 4 weeks of back to back company visiting the cottage at the end of the summer and into the fall. I love visitors any time of the year but normally our visitors arrive early to mid-summer when the garden is prettier and the cottage a little more spiffy. So the late visitors have thrown me off schedule a little and jumped right into a busy fall.
I retuned back home to load up the car and head to New York City to attend a family wedding and to visit Andrea the "Broome" half of this blog. We haven't driven to NYC in several years, it is a long drive from Michigan, 10 to 12 hours depending on the dreaded road construction. But we had a few pieces of furniture to deliver to Andrea. The visit was great and the wedding beautiful. Now I am trying to transit back home after spending the summer at the cottage, never an easy process for me.
These photos seemed like the the perfect way to wrap up the summer by Lake Michigan. Lake Michigan is always a source of beauty and amazement to me. The lake is different every day. It can be dark with crashing waves or it can be peaceful like I experienced recently. We had a few days of the rain and when it cleared out it left Lake Michigan still and clam with hardly a ripple.
During a walk down the beach I discovered a love note of sorts that someone left behind. A beautiful heart out of collected stones. You can see the rain pelted the sand around the heart.
The heart kind of sums up the end to a wonderful summer. I love my summers by the lake and it is always a little sad packing up the yard furniture and putting the garden to bed for the winter. But the seasons move on and the holidays will be here before we all know it!
