is always better than a day at the office, don’t you think? I am very lucky because in many ways the beach, the woods, the ponds and the fields are my offices. They are the places i gather inspiration for my writing and for my art. They are where I work the best.

I love seeing the opreys on their nests

and watching a mockingbird search for food, singing all the while…

I love finding shells that look like the bleached out skeletons they really are….

and I love finding the washed up egg cases of whelks that look like twisted backbones along the high tide wrack…

And I love seeing the little piping plovers running in and out of the quiet waves as the tide recedes…

yep, a day at the beach sure beats a day inside an office….