Creative Retreat at the Beach

You can bake if you want to.

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Henceforth We Shall Saunter

John Muir on the word 'hike': “I don’t like either the word or the thing. People ought to saunter in the mountains — not hike! Do you know the origin of that word ‘saunter?’ It’s a beautiful word. Away back in the Middle Ages people used to go on pilgrimages to the Holy Land, and when people in the villages through which they passed asked where they were going, they would reply, “A la sainte terre,’ ‘To the Holy Land.’ And so they became known as sainte-terre-ers or saunterers. Now these mountains are our Holy Land, and we ought to saunter through them reverently, not ‘hike’ through them.”

Meet John Muir at Sierra Club.

John Muir's sensibilities have influenced me.

Daydream Cottage at Seabrook, WA

Creative Retreat at the Beach

Sculpting the Garden Path

Much fun working on the garden path this year was driving to Voss Acres at Copalis Crossing for top soil on a day the forests were resplendent with every shade of green under the solid blue sky. I then cut through the forest on Copalis Beach Road to come out on SR 109 to visit the new Copalis Beach Grocery. Then continued on to Ivan's at Ocean City. Ivan had the right outdoor table for the deck. It was a first-ever North Beach neighborhood shopping spree. 

2 bdr. 1.5 bath. Sleeps 1-6. ROOM TO WORK/PLAY/CREATE. Excellent kitchen, garden seating, south forest-facing deck & views. WALK TO BEACH, pool, parks, shops. Garden seating & the echo of waves crashing. HQ for WA Coast road trips. Pet-free. 

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April Showers Bring May Flowers

A day of digging, envisioning, planting, and tidying the garden is good therapy. Planted parsley, sage, lavender, and pineapple mint to go with the oregano and chives in the culinary garden. To The Garden!

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2 bdr. 1.5 bath. Sleeps 1-6. ROOM TO WORK/PLAY/CREATE. Excellent kitchen, garden seating, south forest-facing deck & views. WALK TO BEACH, pool, parks, shops. Garden seating & the echo of waves crashing. HQ for WA Coast road trips. Pet-free. 

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Blown Away by Kite Surfing

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Shedding Routines for Fun and Sanity

This year's birthday sabbatical held many 'firsts' apart from the routines of the pack-for-days-away beach road trips and nature retreat. That felt good. Like when you take a new route to- or from- work, or bus instead of drive, or get a gelato to eat on the beach.

Created a lounging bed of the sofa bed.

Took a beach chair (there are two in the closet at Daydream Cottage) and a beach towel (there are five in the powder room at Daydream Cottage ... to the beach! Read a book. Took a nap. Felt warm summer breezes. Watched kite-flying. 

Walked across Joe Creek into Pacific Beach! Met a local lady who shared her memories of the 1964 tsunami in Grays Harbor which followed the great Alaska earthquake. Found that the info about that event has been removed in the Pacific Beach State Park bulletin board.

A first because Frontager's Pizza Co. is now open: gelato by the ocean  🎵🎶 (think DNCE) gelato by the ocean  🎵🎶 .

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June Solstice Magic

Drove to Ocean Shores to pursue a vision for the garden: a new chair and new planting. I reset the majority of these stepping stones and planted the new red tickseed, purple salvia, and chive. Then the tiny hummingbirds visited! www.daydreamcottage.us