We´re Back

Randy and I arrived back on the Island on July 1st. We left behind the Venezuelan tropics, a nation spiraling down into a would-be communist dictatorship, and came back to a relatively cool ( at least to us) beach town gearing up for summer and the celebration of over 230 years of constitutionally guaranteed freedoms. Its a macro shift in sensibilities. All I have to do is look out the front door to know we're not in Maracaibo anymore.

This is a brightly colored bloom from my front yard in Maracaibo. They come and go quickly and the yard is often adorned in different colors from one day to the next ...fuschia, purple, yellow and orange.

Here in Barnegat Light things don't change as much. I come back to the same conservative evergreens, hollies and Black-eyed Susans.

Yet - you just have to look back to my Mosaic piece in this blog last September to see how the flowers have progressed.

We're still settling in and getting our bearings, but looking forward to a wonderful summer. We'll keep you posted.