Monday at the beach began with a fan picture though the weather was breaking and soon we'd need fewer fan cycles. Then, Sarah began our beach project by reading aloud a chapter of The Tenant of Wildfeld Hall while I admired the 100% Bran and the proposed diet that would make me lose 10 pounds and Benjamin stretched as Sarah finished the chapter so that we could gather the basketball and Jane could do her stretching and we could adjourn to the basketball court

with pictures from through the fence as the game came to an end and we vacated the court, step by step

to the bench where the others were gathered as Sarah took a cell phone call and we watched as this kid videotaped his father skateboarding before recording the memorial on the bench having Jane pose in front of Bob on the job (porta potty) seeing the beach badge sales place and the warning side on the sewer before heading home so that Sarah could have her sandwich as I read this page of Anne Bronte's book and Ben's lunch only briefly kept Ben from his game as I took this self portrait and Sarah took this picture of me and then a few pictures of Ben and of me and then many pictures of Ben playing with his beach bucket as a hat

as I read on further into the Bronte and Ben listened as we accumulated goods on the table as Sarah posed for numerous self portraits

and then took this picture of the thermometer and the backdrop while waiting for Claire and Lizzie Mulvey to arrive so that we could head to the beach and set up as Suzanne took her cell phone call After a number of pictures of Jane, Claire, Lizzie, and Sarah

and a picture of Ben's buried shovel as we sat and looked out at the beach until the beach badge checker arrived and posed for this picture as this woman passed by I took a self profile missed a self profile and took another self profile before capturing these pictures of Ben and Claire, Sarah and Lizzie as they headed down the beach past many shells and continued on as Suzanne looked at the gulls and our walk down the beach with the gulls continued and the shell gathering continued even as I photographed my shadow and this gull carrying dinner followed by the shadows of everyone else as we watched the gulls eat

and Suzanne and Jane sat on the barrier rocks until the rest of us gathered for these family photos and then came rushing away because the green flies were biting. Back at the beach house, Ben found his perch as I read the next chapter as Sarah listened and took this artistic picture of her foot while Suzanne moved too fast for a clear picture