The Essential Beachcomber

The good news  - there are shells.  The bad news - the red tide makes it impossible to breathe to get to said shells. It is extremely helpful when one is a beach blogger to be able to go to the beach.  Sure, I could blog about a new recipe I made from Pinterest , my latest find at Goodwill or heaven forbid a table scape (mine are the ones with the matching cool whip salad bowls). W e all know you are here for the sand, shells & sharks teeth right?   Well, me too.  The Red Tide algae b loom that has been traveling up and down the SWFL coastline since October 2012 has put a major damper on everyone's beach going.  The 120 mile long floating algae bloom has been causing sneezing, hacking & burning eyes as it meanders back and forth off the Sarasota, Lee & Collier county coastline.   Sadly, it is killing a record number of manatees according to a story by the Associated Press. My beach  blogging has also been curtailed by an in...

"I mean to lead a simple life, to choose a simple shell I can carry easily – like a hermit crab. But I do not. I find that my frame of life does not foster simplicity."  -  Anne Morrow Lindbergh ,  Gift from the Sea There are many different publishings of this book - This is my favorite cover Little gift books have never interested me. You know, those books that people buy  you for your birthday when they can't think of anything else to get you. That's why when I saw my first copy of "Gift From the Sea" I passed it by.  It just looked cheesy to me.  Sometime later  I was reading an article about The Lindbergh's - Charles & his wife Anne. Charles is the famous one you always hear about. Mention was made of Anne's amazing accomplishments for a woman living in a time long before the equality of woman was popular and that intrigued me.  Anne was college graduate, an aviator, a writer, and married to the most famous man on the planet a...