Welcome Spring!
I’m catching up from last weekend. Last Saturday we celebrated Delphinia, a tradition that we have held for about 20 years. Friends come from far and wide to play on the beach at Point Reyes National Seashore and to declare that springtime has come! The time for breathing out, adventuring, travel, enterprise, and busyness has returned and we can throw off our quiet introspection of the winter months. This year, the weather was absolutely perfect! We sometimes have a chilly beach experience, but not this year.
Champagne? Why, yes, thank you!
We picnicked. The daring children splashed in the cold waves.
We played and flew kites. Sweet X has a nifty dragon kite. We had a community fire; we shared our intention and our gratitude. Two mamas are expecting. We’ll soon have two new baby friends in the world! How amazing is that?
So many of us have dogs now and we brought them along. Five dogs makes things extra exciting. This was Solstice’s first trip to the beach—as far as we know. He’s new to our family.
The guys found a giant log up the beach. They decided it was in the wrong place.
And in the wrong orientation.
Then they hatched an even greater plan. (Everyone in this photo is at least 6 feet tall.)
And brave J climbed to the tipy-top, amply proving her courage, . I watched the whole thing and I still don’t know how she did it.
Point Reyes is so lovely. This is one of my favorite places on earth. Perhaps it’s because we have been coming here to celebrate and adventure my entire adult life. It’s pretty far from home—more than three hours in the car—but it’s definitely worth the trip. As is our family tradition, we picked up garbage on the beach before we left and hiked it out. Earth Day was the next day, after all, so we worked extra hard.
We didn’t leave the beach until 7:30 in the evening!
We were tired and soggy, but very happy. And our adventure didn’t end there! Our friends, T and E invited us to camp with them in their trailer at Samuel P. Taylor campground in the redwoods of Marin county. Staying overnight there with them meant that the fun didn’t have to end, we didn’t have to drive 3 hours home at night, and we got to play and hike a bit in the forest in the morning. It was sooooo great waking up on Earth Day to all that green!
It was beautiful. Suki dog patiently tolerated all of our noise and business. We had a yummy breakfast together.
I got to play with E’s iPhone and took this funky Hipstamatic shot of her and T.
And we got silly. Nothing pleases little boys more than allowing them time to be goofballs.
Thanks for the family photo, E! (And for all the photos!)
Naturally, I’d like to show you all the wildflowers and beautiful emerald trees but this post is getting waaaaaaaaaay too long …
Oops. They sneaked in here anyway. Ahem! So, I’ll skip our stop at the Mission San Rafael on the way home. Perhaps I’ll write about that another time.
For now, I need to clean my house and get ready to have family over for a birthday party this evening. Lucas turns 10 on Tuesday!
April 30, 2012 at 2:07 pm
I am in love with the log pictures. 🙂 What a THEM thing to do.