Clouds

These are from last Friday at Aarons Beach.

It was a cool, brisk, windy day and the sun was shining brightly.

In between running a million errands, I snuck down here to snap a few photos.

Snuck:  Past tense of "sneak" (or is "sneaked" the past tense?), meaning Chesapeake Bay Woman was looking for any excuse to dawdle take a break from her overly packed day and had to do so in secret. She's really not allowed any such diversions in her daily life even though she plays a diversion lover on the internet.

Although I tend to moan and groan complain about everything I'm juggling, at the same time I have to remind myself incessantly that it's all good.

Having to get up at o'dark thirty means I have a job to drive 50 miles each way to go to. Having sporting events to attend almost every night and some Saturdays means my kids have more of a social life than I could ever hope to have are healthy and active.

Next week my daughter--my baby girl--turns 13.  When I moved back to Mathews in the spring of 2001 after living in Northern Virginia/metropolitan DC for entirely too long! about 14 years, she was only 2.

All I did was blink a few times and now she's a teenager.

Anyway, these are the things that I think about when I sneak down to the beach in between running errands or delivering people to and from events.

Here, where I can look up at the sky or out at the water, life tends to slow down a bit, just for a moment; long enough for me to collect my thoughts and realize how quickly everything's passing by, just like those clouds.

Here today, gone tomorrow.

But beautiful nonetheless.