"Flowers are words which even a babe may understand."~Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe

"They must often change,
who would be constant in happiness
or wisdom."

~Confucius

David Andrew and black eyed susans.
Brewster, Cape Cod.

"Even little things have their peculiar grace."~Proverb

There's something so seductive and captivating about the sand on Cape Cod Bay. I love its smoothness, and the way it gracefully stretches toward the horizon anticipating the next tide. The pools of water trapped between the ripples make the landscape appear otherworldly and majestic. I could stay here for hours. . .and I have.

Tidal flats of Cape Cod Bay.

Eastham, MA. 2008

"Earth 
air 
and ocean, 
glorious
three."

~Robert Montgomery

"The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends."~Max Beerbohm

These are just a few of the images I took from the Fourth of July parade in Orleans. This was my first time at this parade. Even though I've lived in Brewster for almost three years now, I've always stayed pretty loyal to my home town parade in Chatham, and to be honest, I don't think any other parade will ever compare.

There's just something about that small town feel in Chatham that you can't get anywhere else; knowing most of the people on the floats or bumping into old classmates and friends that you haven't seen in years. I didn't know anyone at the Orleans parade and definitely didn't recognize anyone on any of the floats either. But I don't think any town on the Cape is or will ever be as close knit as Chatham was while I was growing up. To not know the people around you by name would have been unthinkable back then. It was comforting in a way too. It was home.

"O years, gone down into the past, What pleasant memories come to me. Of your untroubled days of peace, And hours almost of ecstasy. "
~Phoebe Cary

"Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same."~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A man travels the world over
in search of
what he needs
and returns home
to find it."

~George Moore

Images taken on Cape Cod Bay, Brewster.

Summer 2008