


It turned out that this was Higbee Beach, on Delaware Bay. The bay is so huge, we couldn't even see the other side!
My best friend



There are a variety of local legends about Joseph Higbee who owned the beach and the woods behind it - or more accurately, the

Of course, now there are stories of ghosts haunting the beach at night, specters of an old bearded man who roams the beach. We have no idea if this is true or not, but it makes for an interesting story.
The ferry still leaves from the mouth of the Delaware River, and we saw it pulling out into the bay. Did a little bit of walking, dipped my toes in the water which was quite chilly. I tried returning a horseshoe crab to the sea, but I think I was too late.
But it was a pretty day, and we enjoyed our impromptu visit to Higbee Beach and Wildlife Management Area.
More information: https://njaudubon.org/wp-content/wildlife/DelawareBayshoreTrails/Sites/tabid/440/Scope/site/Guide/DELBAYSH/Site/35/Default.html
27 May 2020




The departmental clerk said she'd need to see if a new sign had been ordered,


My SIL suggested doing a mosaic, which would be fun, but heavy to


28 May 2020
Our little car Mr. Tiki is here!!! Yay!
We kept our car from our year in Arizona and summer in Washington, and found a vehicle storage center in


Anyway, my brother picked little Tiki up last week, made sure he was running, and got him ready for travel. Richard made arrangements with a vehicle


He'll adjust to this new coast, and we'll adjust to driving around on the labyrinth of streets and highways and pikes that make

30 May 2020
On our walks, I always notice the flowers and take photos. I do love flowers, however short their lives might be. But now, we seem to find all sorts of quirky lawn ornaments.
One house surrounded by trees on three sides had a lovely little wishing well filled with flowers. They also somehow had an odd wooden two-legged deer propped up against the tree. No idea why no one carved four legs when they were creating this deer of wood, but hey, who am I to argue?
Another house had old random bits of furniture planted with flowers: an old stove, an old school desk and chair, a bed headboard, an old treadle sewing machine table. Gorgeous flowers and amusing little planters of repurposed furniture.
There were the usual little cement animals, including a happy rabbit family. And a few elegant herons in some kind of metal casting.
The elementary school nearby has a school garden, not well maintained with schools closed at the moment. But the clematis filling the tub were looking gorgeous, and I also enjoyed the cement stepping stones in the garden, embellished with glass marbles.
The school must have a creative art teacher - there are several panels of plastic-bottle-top mosaics hanging on the exterior of the school. Really, each spot of color is a bottle cap. What a great art and science lesson about plastics, re-using or recycling or upcycling non-biodegradable items!
And the peonies are especially beautiful right now.
I have one more chapter of what happened this week, but it's going to be enough for an entire blog post unto itself, so please check back for another pandemic break!

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