Sunday, July 15, 2012

Cape Cod weekend

A cottage by the sea.


Pink roses everywhere.


That is the house I dream of.



The air smells of wild roses, hydrangeas, and salt air.



A day at the beach segued to an evening Cape League baseball game. (A league of the best college players, memorialized in the wonderful book, The Last Best League.) The stands were full; suntan lotion, bug spray and grilling hotdogs threaded the scent of the ocean breeze. Children and dogs ran around, cell phones were ignored and the crowd stayed until the very end, because it was that rare kind of evening, one you want to remember when the phones start ringing again.


 The ocean was everything it's supposed to be.


I walked for hours, and was rewarded by the playful antics of dozens of seals. My little pocket camera wasn't up to the task, but trust me, they were captivating. If you click on the picture you'll get a better glimpse of one of them.

Is there a house you dream of?

Jen

14 comments:

  1. I can almost smell the salt air.

    I dream of my grandparents' old house with its high ceilings and clerestory windows that let in late afternoon golden light. I'm trying to duplicate it in some manner with the house we're building. We shall see.

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  2. My aunt's house was near the coast not far from Tokyo, where I dreamed when I was a kid. I liked the ocean we could see through the window on the second floor. Your picture remind me of the scene!

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  3. your photos capture it all almost as perfectly as your words. what a perfect way to get my imagination going this morning....thank you.
    beautiful!!!

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  4. oh, i thought it was a dog until you said.

    i don't blame you for dreaming of that one. it's similar to my own dream house, just placed in an English environment, and so also a little more quirky. but lots of climbing and brambly greenery and flora running amok.

    i wish baseball was played over here, i really enjoy it.

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  5. This is heaven, I seem to dream of the same house. I can smell the ocean, hmmmm! Seals have the most adorable faces.

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  6. Beautiful, Jen! Love a good gray-shingled cottage with blue hydrangeas.

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  7. Delightful! I could happily teletransport myself to that cottage with roses and stay forever!

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  8. I think my dream house is pretty much the same as the one you featured Jen. How lovely the sea looks and I love seals.Whenever we go to Holy Island in Northumberland its one of the things I love to do. You can sit and hear them singing on an evening and its really beautiful!

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  9. Sounds like many of us have the same dream house!

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  10. All of those pink roses...so pretty. I don't have all of the details of my dream house, but I know there is a view of the sea.

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  11. A dreamy house indeed! I love the forest but a view of the sea is also a fascination. Happy for you that you spent a great day there. A seal looks so lovely.

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  12. I'd like to have a house in BC, close enough to Vancouver to have some city life when I need/want it, overlooking the ocean, with lots of woods around it. it's a very strange dream that I'm having for ages, decades really, about the kind of house I want, but I only recently figured out that BC might be where I could find it. it's strange because I'm a city girl, and I hate winter, so I'm not sure why I this image keeps coming back to me...

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  13. I love those cottages and the roses. What a beautiful weekend!

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  14. An old farmhouse we used to stay in on Fire Island. Grapevines over the outdoor shower, deer peering in the window, a high ceiling-ed kitchen with blue and white china and there was always a blueberry pie.

    Hmm, this might deserve its own post.

    xo jane

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