Tuesday, June 15, 2010

If one has to work during lunch, one can try to at least get out of a stuffy office.  Today, after my calls down south, I picked up a sandwich and headed for Newport Beach Park to finish paperwork and email the orders in.  This morning's rain cleared off (or maybe I was just far enough south to be out from under it,) and the water was an amazing aquamarine blue. 

A woman pulled up next to me with her brown bag, and said, "Everyone comes here for lunch!"  A neighborhood cat was prowling the dunes--searching for a tasty tidbit?  I saw others with fast food bags or coolers, all out making the most of the sunshine and scenery.

On the way home, flocks of brown pelicans called it a day on these rocks between Garibaldi and Rockaway Beach.  They're very graceful in flight, dipping into the surf in a line formation.  They are also large birds, standing two to three feet high.  Tonight they were in for the evening, quiet, resting after a full day of feeding and flying.