Hello from Cape Cod, MA

Greetings friendlies!

Checking in from Cape Cod, Massachussetts.

Transitioning from 10 days of solo camping to twin three-year-olds and an enormous German Shepard. People complain that everything is the same, nothing changes. But if one involves oneself in other people’s lives, je veux dire, if you have friends and connect with others, you begin to see the delicious variegation, the down-right fascination of being alive. How could one ever become bored?

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Susquehanna State Park was a relief after the tumultuous weather at Assateague. I don’t think I’ve yet shared images of the carnage?

Another storm rolled in to Assateague Island Wednesday evening (that is, 31MAR). A new batch of families-with-enormous-tents arrived just as the rain began. I boiled a final batch of water and tucked in to SpaceShip Element. The wind rocked the car, the rain pounded the roof.

Opening the doors in the morning I found myself the only car in the parking lot. Skeletons of enormous-family-tents were strewn about the sand or piled (more or less considerately) by dumpsters.

The horses continued eating, evidently unimpressed.

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Susquehanna State Park, as mentioned, was a relief after all that fury of noise and water and peevish tweenagers. Here spot 59, my favorite at SSP:

Spring has most definitely sprung. The birds are all in:

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And now in Cape Cod. The trouble, happily, is having so much fun and enjoying everyone so much, and not wanting to stop long enough to write about it.

But I will tell you that we celebrated my birthday on the beach. We ate pizza and chocolate frosted cupcakes and beach sand. I got a hat:

And a kite:

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Next it’s to Boston for a brief visit with a Kalyana Mitta, thence to Kennebunk, Maine for the weekend. I’ve been promised an outing to the beach with a pig. I will bring the camera.

I hope you are well!

With friendliness,

:Shannon