To recap: We woke up on Tuesday of last week in Alabama. Wednesday we woke up in Indiana. Thursday, it was Pennsylvania. Saturday we woke up in New Jersey. On Christmas day, we finally woke up in Connecticut, which is where we are spending a few days.
But before all of that … we stopped at the beach. This is Point Pleasant, New Jersey.
And here are a few shots from the shore, before my ears started hurting. This is the beach The Yankee played on with her god-sisters as a child.
It was a beautiful Christmas Eve morning …
But, seriously, the wind made my ears hurt. How often does that happen?
It seems my light jacket wasn’t enough. Go figure.
Also, one wave sneaked up on me. You know how they do, that one ambitious wave works its way farther up the beach than the rest and you have three steps in the water — the cold, cold, water — before you can escape its reach.
It was no warmer in New York, of course. This was one of the views on I-287.
And here’s an almost accidental shot on the Cuomo Bridge. It turns out I really like the cool austerity of the composition.
And then we finally hit the Merritt, and Connecticut. This was Saturday afternoon.
Later that night we went to Christmas Eve services at my in-laws’ church. Before that, there was a mini-concert featuring Ukrainian flautist, Denis Savelyev. He’s won the New York Flute Club Competition, has been named the rising star at the Galway Flute Festival and the 2019 young artist at the National Flute Association here in the U.S. I am assured these are big deals. He is presently doing graduate work at John Hopkins University but, to me, he’s the guy who made the flute solo cool. He also played this.
Christmas morning — our fifth state, fifth bed, in six days — my lovely bride, her parents and I opened presents. It was a pleasant, low key day. Called my mother and called my grandfather. We had a delicious prime rib for dinner. We set up my father-in-law’s gift. He’s very pleased. We’ll finish setting up my mother-in-law’s tomorrow.
And that gets us through the weekend. But now I have to write the post about today.
