Peaceful Respite

Peaceful Respite

Chronic illness is like dropping a pebble in a still pond, Rob says. and the rippling effects of that pebble (the disease) reaches out far and wide. He’s a fighter, my dear hubby and refuses to let cancer rule our life. Battling lymphoma is just one part of him, but we refuse to let it override everything.

So with these steamy hot days we’ve been seeing, we took to the beach early one morning last week. You know.. just as the tide is turning– there will always be a slight breeze, even on the steamiest of days.   It was such a peaceful respite from our typical daily schedule of oncology, hospitals and clinics.  Just the break he needed.  The gulls flew over us squawking up their storm and the sanderlings danced across the waters edge in their busy movement searching for food.  We laughed as they reminded us of our busy schedules these days..always on the go.

Young Sanderlings

Sanderlings are plump little shorebirds that are always in motion feeding along the shoreline where the wave’s action stirs up their food.  They are constantly running back and forth with the waves probing the sand foraging for little crustaceans and worms.  This little group allowed me to get somewhat close, but typically they are pretty tough to capture, at least on my little camera.  I was happy with this result though–for both the shot and spirit– a good day.

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