a Pretty Rainbow

My cottage survived the storm very well. Thank you all for the emails and the prayers!
 I've been very busy lately putting things back in order, and cleaning up.
I thought it might be a good time to post a couple of nice rainbow pictures that I took in  North Wildwood.

It was a full arch and I don't have a wide angle lense so I had to take several separate shots!
Below is the other side of the arch.

And I just luv how the sea birds have a glow about them in this one:

Also been busy getting ready to move my youngest into a college dorm room tomorrow.  Making pillow covers and picking out bedding, and printing pictures for her new frames. We are trying to decorate with lots of pictures so she doesn't miss us all too much. I'll post pics of her dorm room  re -do, after we get it all set up.
She wanted to make a statement. Can you guess what color scheme she is going with?
The choices:

• black and white
• black, pink, and white
• red and white
• red and black

We've got everything ready now and packed in the car!
hasta la vista, baby

Stormy but beautiful in Wildwood by the Sea

Today was just an awesome day by the ocean.

The Northeastern part of the US was ravaged by Hurricane Earl. North Carolina had to evacuate. By the time hurricane Earl reached our neck of the woods he was only a category 1 storm, which was great for us. No damage to worry about. Today there was no going on the beach though, but there were some awesome sights to behold. Yesterday because Earl was rather far away was a gorgeous day on the beach with surf rough enough to bring out the surfers, and fun enough to knock my daughter and I around in the surf till we could laugh no more.

This jetty is usually surrounded by only a tiny bit of water at the very end, that you can wade through and sometimes it is sand there. There is always sand all up along the sides of this jetty. Today the waves crashed up high onto the rocks and as you can see the sand is under water.

When I first went down to have a look there were lots of people milling about looking and taking pics, as you can see here below, there is still some beach left.

But 20 minutes later, after I got my daughter to show her the waves, there wasn't any beach left in this same area

All in all we were very lucky this storm just skirted by us. In the winter we often get hit with some nasty Hurricanes, that we call Nor'easters. Because they attack the North Eastern Seaboard with a vengeance. In 1962 a big hurricane named Helen knocked down 2 little cottages right next to where my cottage sits now. My cottage survived. Now there are big houses built on those spots although they had remained empty for many, many years. Of course I was only a little squirt then, and didn't live down here, and only remember aunts and uncles and  parents talking about it. My neighbor has some old photos of the mess after that, and the nieghborhood in even older times which I hope to get copies of and post at a future date.

Have you ever been in a storm that rattled your windows and scared the heck out of you? I was in florida when Charley hit and a bit too close for comfort. That was a frightening storm and really reaked havoc with the Port Charlotte, North Port, Boca Grande area.

 For now, I'm off to get a good nights sleep, without the wind a -shaken and a -rattling my little house!

Thanks for stopping by! And stay safe and dry! Have a great Labor day!