We got back Friday from the New Hampshire short – Hampton Beach – where we had two warm and beautiful days to walk, talk, sit on the beach and read. I finished two books, “Cops” by Steve Osborne and the”Valiant Revolution” by Nathaniel Philbrick,and I loved them both. We had seafood for dinner and lunch – lobster mostly.

The tourist town is revving up the summer, but not yet overrun. We won’t see the ocean again until the Fall. Hampton Beach is the closest water to us, and we have perfected the art of the hit-and-run getaway. The rates double and triple next week, and it is easy to get a table in a great seafood restaurant.

The beaches are quiet and empty and the ticky-tack shops on the Boardwalk are just cleaning up and getting ready. We have a beautiful time, as we always do. We always seem to have fun, no matter what it around us or what is happening to us. I took some interesting photos which I’ll put up.

Big shake-up in my photography life coming up. I’m taking all of my cameras but the monochrome into New York City on Wednesday to trade them in for a new camera, and hopefully, for a new lens. I’m really focusing in my passions and directions in photography, big changes for me, and I will of course share then with you.

This shot is the first I took in Hampton Beach, it was at dawn on what was a cloudy morning, the sun had just burst through the clouds, lighting up the far side of the harbor. A nice thing to see at 5 a.m. The ocean is soothing and beautiful, it was good to see it.