Memorial Day Weekend~~Calm and Warm

We travelled the 3 plus hours to Virginia's Northern Neck to the family cottage on a river off the Chesapeake Bay. Such a wonderful weekend! The weather was perfect! It had been a long time since we had a Memorial Day weekend with such Summer perfect temperatures!

The beach was warm and sunny. My son decided a piece of driftwood was best used as a golf club. Our dog couldn't resist spending time in the water just walking around and around.

 

Old fashioned bottles of icy cold RC Cola, a radio you need to crank to make it work, a wise owl keeping seagulls at bay, and metal lawn chairs which are too rusty to sit on but are so nice with their blue color they are worth keeping--the cinder blocks keep them from washing away if the tide gets too high.

Concrete seahorses keep watch over the garden. My aunt's gold sandals on display beside a pot of impatiens and coleous. Crabbers retrieve their crab pots from the river on a calm early morning.

Early in the morning the beach captures the sunrise~~I just love waking up before everyone else and having the river to myself. Later it will come alive with a hive of activity on the water of speedboats, jetskis, sailboats, and waterskiers.

Now, I couldn't end this Memorial Day post without showing off~~forgive my bragging~~what I fou8nd at the numerous yard sales we encountered out in the country side. Here is a sampling!

I adore the fabric with it's sea green flowers! I found quite a few pieces of vintage jewelry to use on my bags and pin cushions. I love the fun ice cream colors of the candle holders. I have a few ideas for those. The metal church from Ulm, Germany will join other metal souvenir buildings in my collection. The kitties will wind up decorating pin cushions. The "sugared" flowers will adorn gifts one day, but for now I'm enjoying them in a vintage pitcher on my book shelf. I'm not sure what to do with the vintage baby shower gift enclosures, but I'll think of something!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend and found lots and lots of treasures!

XXOO, Beth