Tag: Sanderlings

Christmas Day on Venice Beach

Is it odd timing to write about Christmas on New Year’s Day? Perhaps, but that’s what I am doing. As I wrote a week ago, our family spent the week in Los Angeles, in a cottage near Venice Beach. We had a breakfast on Christmas morning of bacon and eggs and homemade biscuits. No presents, …

Strangers in a Strange Land

So there is more to holidays than food. We also had hikes to take, birds to watch, shells to collect. As I mentioned before, we had rented a house on Edisto Island, near the town of Edisto Beach. The back of the house faced on to a tidal creek and salt marsh. In the front, …