My beach photos (DIALUP WARNING)

[SeattleGirl]

I took these last May at the Oregon Coast (Florence, to be specific). We stayed there with my two sisters, two BIL's, and our nephew.

This is a view of the deck of the house we were staying in:



Here's another view of the beach from the house:



Start of sunset:






This one is really interesting -- I don't know what caused the red spots around the sun:



Sun is almost gone:



And finally, just to exercise my Aunt SeattleGirl bragging rights, here is my nephew. He just turned two in October:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear SeattleGirl......

I am so glad to see your lovely pics.....the beach is glorious!

And I LOVE your nephew!

The red spots are probably caused by reflections from the sun off your lens.....

Thanks for posting these!

You go, girl......

:woohoo: :woohoo:

[SeattleGirl]

3. Thank you, Miss Peggy!

You have shown us some very wonderful photographs, and so i take your praise as high indeed! I think you are correct about the red spots being the sun reflecting from the lense, but I thought it was pretty cool.

And I love my nephew too -- especially since when I was in Las Vegas for my birthday, he left me a voicemail message on my cell phone, singing "Happy Birthday" to me! :loveya:

:loveya: :hug: :loveya: :hug:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

2. Good photos!!

[SeattleGirl]

4. Thank you, Crazy!

:pals:

[hippywife]

5. Good job, SeattleGirl!

Youe nephew looks like a cute little miniature longshoreman or deep sea disherman in that outfit.

[SeattleGirl]

8. Thanks hippywife!

My nephew is one of the lights of my life!

[MrScorpio]

6. Those are some beautiful photos

I love the ocean

[SeattleGirl]

9. Thank you! I love the ocean too!

I'm fortunate in that I live fairly close to the Washington and Oregon beaches!

[LynzM]

7. Beautiful!

I love sunsets on the water... those are lovely! And your nephew is a cutie pie! :)

[SeattleGirl]

10. Thanks LynzM!

I was so fortunate that we had good weather overall during our stay, but I think the clouds at sunset really added to the beauty of the photos.

(And my nephew IS a cutie pie!)

[WCGreen]

11. That's all good and all, pretty pics and all...

And I been there twenty five years ago...


But where are the beach babes...

What's the point of taking beach pic's when there are no Beach Babes...

[SeattleGirl]

14. You're gonna have to find your own, you bad man!

:spank:

[WCGreen]

21. BeachBabes.org.......

Why did the non profits get the org....

When it is so obvious a sex thing...

[SeattleGirl]

35. WC!!!

You ARE just asking for this, aren't you???

:spank: :spank: :spank:

[WCGreen]

41. All the time, baby... All the Time....

[SeattleGirl]

43. Well, then, here are some more!

:spank: :spank: :spank: :evilgrin:

[WCGreen]

46. Ah, such a pleasent mind photo to take me to the land of

blissful dreams....

SeattleGirl in full leather regalia and....

A snappy switch....

[SeattleGirl]

47. And this:

:spank: :spank: :spank:

:evilgrin:

[KitchenWitch]

12. Great pix!

Love the sunset ones.

[SeattleGirl]

15. Thank you, Kitchey!

I was so pleased with how they came out! :hi:

[In_The_Wind]

13. They are all wonderful ...

I love sunsets as much as sunrises ...

The surf breaking on the beach looks clean and inviting ...

:thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

16. Thank you, Joani

:loveya:

[In_The_Wind]

18. You're welcome Sweetie ...

How are you doing tonight?

:loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

31. I feel really good!

Had a good day! So good to see you, my friend! :loveya:

(You know, whenever I see your avatar, I just want to hug the stuffin' out of you! :loveya: )

[NMMNG]

17. Beautiful pics SeattleGirl!

And what an adorable nephew! He looks as if he'd be right at home on a fishing boat (perhaps a foreshadowing of his future career?).

[SeattleGirl]

20. If nephew's dad has his way, nephew will be a fisherman,

hunter, race car driver, and all around MAN. But bless BIL's heart, my nephew will also respect women, know how to cook, clean and do the laundry, and be able to take care of himself! That kid's gonna get a good "education"!

[NMMNG]

26. Being well-rounded is important

Unfortunately, I was brought up in one of those households where there was "women's work" and "men's work". Therefore I can cook, do laundry and clean but I can't do more than minor household repairs, and anything with my car takes a professional (other than putting on a spare, new wiper blades or other minor stuff). It would have been nice to have learned more of that stuff when I was growing up (though I suppose I could take some of those classes at Home Depot).

[SeattleGirl]

37. I was brought up the same way, and so was my BIL.

The cool thing is, he loves to cook, and my nephew just loves to learn things! And two of his favorite things to do are sweep and vacuum! When we were at the coast, we had to do a lot of "duck and cover" as he went through the house with the broom! For his birthday in October, one of the things we gave him was a kid-sized broom, and he just loves it. My mom gave him a toy vacuum cleaner, and he just thought that was the greatest thing!

He will grow into a man who can pick up after himself -- a fine quality in a man, in my opinion!

[Wapsie B]

19. Nice pics!

Very nice SeattleGirl. :)

[SeattleGirl]

22. Thank you, bwa!

I really like them too!

[Wapsie B]

25. They're very colorful.

Love the scenery. :)

[SeattleGirl]

38. Me too!

I think the coastal scenery is some of the most beautiful!

[Wapsie B]

42. I love nature scenery.

Those natural colors are so eye-catching. Yes it's very beautiful. I know why there are so many people living on the Left Coast. wow.

[SeattleGirl]

48. There is so much beauty here!

Ocean beaches, coastal mountain ranges, forests, beautiful cities. I just love it. I am a total West Coast Girl!

[WCGreen]

23. The red spot one is proof

that Aliens have visited the earth.....

[In_The_Wind]

24. Or that she needs a filter on her lens ...

[WCGreen]

27. Well, that too....

[southlandshari]

28. Naughty even when you are being nice....

You KNOW I thought I'd be seeing something other than sunsets in a thread started by you and advertising "my beach photos"!

:spank:




















;) just kidding - very nice pics, darlin'!

[Heidi]

29. Just gorgeous!

How cold is it on the Oregon coast in May? The lanscape is just beautiful, gf! :thumbsup: Thanks for the photos (and your nephew is an angel!)! :hug: :loveya:

[SeattleGirl]

32. Thank you, Heidi!

It actually wasn't bad this year during the day...didn't have to bring out the ear muffins and scarves to go down to the beach! But the nights got pretty cool. We had such a wonderful time! I love the coast.

And my nephew is such a wonderful little boy, I just love him beyond words!

[obxhead]

30. Nice... I'll be making an OBX trip in 2 weeks.

:toast:

[SeattleGirl]

34. Nice! If you take pictures, I hope you post them!

:hi:

[MissHoneychurch]

33. Beautiful

the sunset is breathtaking and that litlle guy is very cute. You are allowed to brag :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

40. Hey, MissHoneychurch!

Thank you! I love that little guy so much it just makes my heart burst! He's so cute, he's so smart, and he's funnier than hell!

He and his mommy and daddy came to visit us for a week this summer. We have two raised garden boxes in our back yard. We didn't plant anything this summer, so they were just filled with dirt. My sister's next door neighbors have a sandbox for their girls, and my nephew loves to play in it. Well, I told Mr. SG that I was sure our nephew would think the garden boxes were sandboxes, and sure enough, he did. He tried to climb into one, and I told him no, they were filled with dirt. We had a bit of a back and forth: "Dirt!" "Sand!" "Dirt!" "Sand!"

A couple of days later, my sister took him outside to play, and he grabbed a fistful of grass, went over to the garden boxes, threw the grass in, and said, "Dirt!" :rofl:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

36. The sunsets are amazing!

and the two year old just adorable! :hug:

[SeattleGirl]

44. Yes and Yes!

It was a really wonderful time! I hope I can stay with my sissies and BIL's and my adorable nephew again soon! I love living in Seattle, but my whole family lives in Oregon, and sometimes I miss them so much!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Beautiful pics!

The red spots one reminds me of Close Encounters...

Thanks for sharing! :D

[SeattleGirl]

45. That's exactly what I thought!

It really looked like an extraterrestrial vehicle was getting ready to land!

[newyawker99]

49. Those are great pics!

:thumbsup:

[SeattleGirl]

51. Thank you, newyawker99!

:loveya:

[Truebrit71sbruv]

50. Smashing pictures!

Looks like it was truly AWFUL there ;)

And btw... bragging rights FULLY granted! Your nephew is as cute as a button! :D

[SeattleGirl]

52. Thanks!

My nephew is very easy to brag about!

[Truebrit71sbruv]

53. There's just something about seeing a wee kid in dungarees...

... that makes me chuckle.

All my children have gone through loads of sets of them, and the bit that always made me laugh was when they first discovered the pockets - and immediately thrust their hands into them, toddling around babbling like loons being "all-growed-up" :)