Hi There:
Happy New Year? Did you have a pleasant evening on 12/31? Cheers! May it be a wonderful and blessed year for you and those you love.
Hellooo beach, 2025!
Fernandina Beach, Florida continues to charm and delight. Right now, the ocean has glittering diamonds of all shapes and sizes spread over a third of it. The other two-thirds is a deep, cozy, blue-green, throw-blanket as far as the eye can see.
The one-third diamond area is a heating pad through the window. Pearl has a thick fur coat but she enjoys the radiating warmth. It’s winter, after all.
Pictures never capture the organic majesty of what we see at the end of Sea Chase Drive. God’s view, tbh. Private beyond exclusivity. When I’m not here I wish to be here. (Before long the window where Pearl is sitting will be replaced with one that doesn’t have a support thing in it.)
This morning a bald eagle sailed over the ocean like he owned every drop of water and every washed-ashore foam bubble. He convinced me he did. Birds are ever-changing entertainment. Ocean, dunes, blue sky, massive ships and our symbol of strength hang out over the Atlantic on any given morning.
No camera could ever capture the trance.
No wonder Lynyrd Skynyrd was inspired to write Free Bird around here. As a human I feel like a Free Bird at the end of Sea Chase Drive. Trance-like.
This paraglider cruises by our windows from time to time. Love this guy.
Can you believe we moved out of 2103 McKinley? Sometimes I can’t believe it. What’s most incredible is that I don’t miss it. Not even a bit. Zippo.
There’s a little sadness from time to time for sweet Pearl. She’s the only one that misses McKinley Road. She had a great life there. But she thinks the beach house is okay and she’s hoping the new Atlanta place will be okay too, one day.
In the meantime, we’re living in a two-bedroom condo. Small but cozy.
(I guess you would know. You’ve seen it….)
Since it’s a temporary place, and has been a minute since we’ve lived any where on earth other than McKinley, I’m hankering to share the small, thrown-together lair with others. Don’t ask why. It’s a mystery (Jeff’s shoes make it especially share-worthy, maybe that’s why?).
Back to Beach Bliss:
We’re a short drive to Jekyll Island and also to Jacksonville, FL (Lynyrd Skynyrd home :) from Sea Chase Drive. Jeff and I biked 11 miles around Jekyll on New Year’s Day. Been doing this for over 20 years. We had a really cool camera to capture the island’s beauty…but this is the only pic taken that day.
Diana and Elijah were our first beach guests ever. They came down the day after Christmas. It was a little cloudy while they were here.
We chartered a small boat and headed to Cumberland Island with them. It was fun. I’m not a total boatie but it was a lovely outing. Dolphins came close to the boat. I’ll go out on a boat to see dolphins with these two any day.
That’s all for now. I miss you very much.
Thank you for reading!
Love, Shelley
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