Happy weekend! Did you have a happy fourth? We've had family in town for the week. Lots of swimming, parade going, boating, firework watching, birthday candle blowing, eating, and laughing. Our little town puts on quite the sparkly show for Independence Day.
On Sunday, we're heading North for our annual vacation in Door County. The girls are pretty excited. To be honest, I am too. The weather forecast is predicting daytime temperatures in the mid-seventies and nights in the low sixties. We're in the middle of a record setting heat wave / drought, and those temperatures sound like my idea of heaven. We'll bring the boat and spend most of our time on the beautiful lake, buzzing around.
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
~Henry David Thoreau
19 comments:
Enjoy every moment. We will be right behind you in mere weeks. I can hear the lap of the water already. Smiles...Renee
Oh I love Door County! We've only visited once, but I totally fell in love with it. Have a wonderful time!
Have a wonderful trip Molly!! And enjoy those cool temps!!
We just came back our annual vacation rental on Lake MI. Nothing beats the water, does it? Have a lovely time with your sweet girls.
Have a great time!!! Nothing's better than being by the water!
chris
What a sweet post.
Have a wonderful time.
Sounds lovely!! Hope you have fun and Happy weekend to you! xo Holly
I love times like this with family....we had fun last weekend camping!
I love my gift Mimi and I had so much fun opening our treasures...thank you so much!
It sounds like fun.especially the temps. I love Door County and wished we lived closer! Have a great time!
Was wondering how the weather was where you and a lot of my other blogger acquaintances are located in mid/east USA; sounds awful; terribly hot. Happy for you and your family but green with envy(!) about vacationing in Door County...my dream destination! Years ago, I enjoyed the "escape"/de-stress novels (light and entertaining stories, sometimes historical, dramatic with humor...and mostly romantic!) of an author who is long since retired...LaVyrle Spencer...and she used Door County as the backdrop for her book BITTER SWEET. She would research her locations thoroughly for authenticity, writing one book per year. The descriptions of Fish Creek and other places in Door County, both in summer and winter, sounded heavenly; I actually, occasionally hit up weather.com to see what the weather is like in those neck 'o the woods. Have never been to these locales, and I have such curiosity about them. I would LOVE to go to Wisconsin, Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Minnesota, etc. Your posted lakeshore image evokes such summery pleasure. I do think that, for kids, a solo destination where they can settle in is much more enjoyable for them than an extended, days-on-end road trip, although I enjoyed those Route 66-style road trips when I was older, from the pre-teens. But my fond memories from younger childhood are spending a couple of weeks at the ocean beach house we leased in August, staying for a week or so at a national park in the same, familiar cabin each June; the favorite summer rental cottages at the lake up in the mountains. Biking, swimming, cookouts, reading, napping, playing, hiking, outdoor movies, nature talks, fishing...gosh, it was the life! Shared, local activities; getting to know the other kids doing the same thing with their families; feeling comfortable with a place. Nobody and nothing can take away those glorious, happy, stress-free family vacations from my childhood. All these years later, I am so, so grateful to my parents, who managed to scrape some vacation money aside for these modest trips resulting in mega memories. How wonderful for your family to enjoy your own getaway this summer...have lots of fun and great experiences!
I love the picture of the lake!
Enjoy your wonderful vacation! Sounds like you will all have such a great time!! Enjoy the beautiful lake for me!! ;) xo Heather
Safe Travels, and have FUN!! :)
Have fun! Hope you get your ideal weather!!!
Carly
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Wishing you a wonderful vacation at the lake, Molly, it sounds idyllic :)
Helen x
Hi Molly,
I hope you and the family are having an enjoyable vacation. It is a very hot day here, 105 ...ughh...:/ The a/c is running, so I can't complain much! :) A visit to the lake sounds wonderful!!
Those cookies in your last post are making me very hungry. I love homemade cookies. YUM!! :)
xoxo...Gloria
Wishing you a most awesome vacation and time away to kick back and relax!
Hugs...
Maria
Have a wonderful time....I am thinking that is just where I want to be too. xoxo
The seventh photo from above is romantic and inspiring for photography as well.
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