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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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