Prose Tile:  Art Washes, 6" x 4", each individually handmade by the artist, $22, Tammy Vitale

After our lovely picnic and walk along the Potomac on Sunday, we drove home through lovely old Colonial Beach (also on the Potomac).  Once we hoped to buy a vacation house here, but we could never seem to make it through to the final.  So now we visit regularly.  It's about 2 hours from home, a nice ride, and I love the idea of this place with it's lovely Victorian houses, long shore line, public beach and memories for me of a big old hotel, closed abut owned by one of my Mom's friends – so we'd pack sheets and brooms and clean out a room and bed to stay with groups of neighborhood folks.  I remember not where it was abut keep hoping I'll see something that reminds me.  The hotel is long gone (that was the 60s and even though Colonial Beach is slow to change, changes indeed have happened).  Now there is a renaissance of sorts, with a regular art walk in Colonial Beach proper.  Like North Beach here in Calvert County, the lots are small and houses not directly on the beachfront tend to be small too.  But blue herons perch on pilings in the water, life is leisurely and if the restaurants aren't five star they still give you plenty to eat (we didn't stop as we had the Girls with us).

Then home with a quick stop to take pictures at Allen's Fresh, an enchanting marsh land in Charles County just off Route 301 (also called Crain Highway in that area).

And that's the end of our Sunday which was all anyone could ask for!

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thought for the day:  O our mother the earth, O our father the sky,/Your children are we, and with tired backs/We bring you gifts that you love./Then weave for us a garment of brightness,/May the warp be the white light of morningm/May the weft be the red light of eveing,/May the fringes be the falling rain,/May the border be the standing rainbow/Thus weave for us a garment of brightness/That we may walk fittingly whre grass is green,/O our mother the earth, O our father the sky.  Tewa Pueblo Prayer Earth Prayers from around the World.