Remember the Joy....

...of playing in the sand at the beach? Well, easy for me to say, having grown up on the coast, eons ago, in Cape Ann, Massachusetts. So here we are today - my son, who also grew up at the beach in coastal MA, and his two children, only one of whom has even been to the beach. So we had a grand time today - we went to visit Yaquina Head Lighthouse and the interpretive center - fascinating. Then to a local playground where we found the largest slide we'd ever seen, then spent the rest of the afternoon at the beach, just below our condo. Hands digging in the sand, bringing buckets of water up from the ocean, dripping wet sand into drippy sand castles. Do you remember? Did you have the good fortune of growing up on the beach?

Extras: What in the world is a Lady Bug doing on a barnacle-encrusted rock at the edge of the sea? And the four of us - me, my son, and two grandchildren.