Showing posts with label Glen Cove Beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glen Cove Beach. Show all posts

Thursday, July 3, 2014

Morgan Park Part II

This is where I celebrated Midsummer's Eve, with a picnic with friends. I wish I could just bottle these moments to enjoy when the going gets tough again.














Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Morgan Park

John Pierpont Morgan, the financier who founded J.P. Morgan, which has since morphed into the financial giant JP Morgan Chase, built the Morgan Park in Glen Cove, Long Island's north shore, to honor his wife's memory after she passed away in 1926. Long Island is full of beautiful scenic waterfront spots, but this park is definitely one of the best. I love going there, and we do, year round, but of course the beach is at its loveliest in the summer. 










Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Shells

I have a slight obsession with sea shells. Not the fancy perfect kind, that you can buy in stores, but the ordinary, a bit broken up kind of shells that line the beaches of North Shore of Long Island. Every time I go for a beach walk I come back with a pocket full of shells...and some nice stones, and pieces of drift glass or wood..or pretty much anything made pretty by sand and water... My daughters share in on my passion and they too love to collect shells (and acorns, and stones, and pinecones, and all kinds of nature stuff that I don't even have names for...).



Maybe it's the colors.. Blues, grays and whites.. after all, I am a Finn!


Aren't they PRETTY? 


Say this fast: She sells sea shells on the sea shore. 



Saturday, December 15, 2012

Oh My Flu

This is the first year in a long time that I neglected to get the flu vaccine for myself and every member of the family. What with Sandy and some unexpected travels, I feel like there wasn't a moment to take care of it. So of course we should all be so lucky and come down with the flu. Not the cold, or some congestion, oh no. We, and I mean the whole family, including the nanny, came down with the real influenza, fevers and all. I had forgotten how painful the flu is. Every part of the body hurts.. As usual, the kids got sick first and then the adults. My 10 year old was sick since Monday morning, and I knew on Wednesday that I was going to get really sick as well. You know that feeling when you're whole body feels like it's been slammed against a wall... On Thursday I had to stay home with fever. Well, now there is light at the end of the tunnel. Kids are better, I don't have fever anymore, and hubby seems to just have a bit of temperature.. (or temper).. After a whole week of sickness, I can't wait for this to be over. What is the best thing to build up the immune system after a sickness?

Anyway, I also downloaded all the pictures from the past four months.. We'll be seeing lots of them later. Here's a sneak peak of a beautiful pre-Sandy day on the beach.