The first day of Spring was glorious and I spent the whole day far away from the house & the chores. The morning was spent walking up and down the beach with Alice sleeping for most of it.
I was browsing blogs on my phone, whilst taking photographs of the beautiful waves and decided to join fellow Kiwi Mummy Bloggers in ‘Wardrobe Wednesday‘.
I had the beach all to myself, so a bit of self-portraiture was involved. I tried to get a photograph of my shoes with a wave nearly touching them – but ended up ankle deep in water when I mis-calculated the waves and a larger one sneaked up and caught me out! Ha! That will teach me for trying to be arty and creative.
Anyway, here I am, very au natural, bare-faced and casual looking.
If I’d taken one of me yesterday and compared you’d think I was suffering from split-personality disorder. Yesterday I donned heels, favourite jeans, a beloved belt from Country Road and a gorgeous Lakeland suede jacket that my dear Mum bought me in the Lake District last time I was in England. The occasion was ‘Yum Char’ lunch with hubbie in town (accompanied by my excited daughter Sophie and baby Alice – yes, I was brave wearing a suede jacket – especially when you see what a messy eater she is!).
Today I braved going out with only a smidgen of mascara and terribly unkempt hair – but there was no one to care and it felt great. My old tattered trousers from Kathmandu dragged along in the wet sand, having seen many a beach on many a land in the years and years I’ve been wearing them. My comfy Ecco shoes have also seen many adventures and were nearly kicked off as my feet were tempted to feel the sand and paddle in the cool sea – but the sight of a few too many sand-flies made me think better of it. I was glad of my dusty pink jumper from Just Jeans, covering my arms from the pesky flies and warming me from the slight chill in the virgin spring air.
The sun was just the tonic I needed after the deluge of rain over the past few days. I’ve been filling a little out of sorts and was very grateful to the Universe for throwing down a cracker of a day.
I loved watching the fisherman coming and a going…
This delightful couple of Oystercatchers looking for food…
And watching the waves crashing on the shore…
After picking Sophie up from Kindergarten at midday we headed to Lyall Bay beach, where we spent the rest of the afternoon till Charlotte finished school. It was so good to remember the days of summer past and look forward to the coming summer. There were more than a few happy faces at the beach today.
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Gorgeous! That wee babe is the best accessory! Thanks for joining in x
Beautiful post! Alice looks so cozy all snuggled up to you. I can practically smell the sea air through your photographs. Hurray for Spring – we’ve had a gorgeous day here in Taranaki as well.
Beautiful photos!!!
What a glorious happy walk on the ‘wild side’…just feel the wind in my hair and the spray on my face…just amazing pictures.The last one of the wave breaking is so captivating.I’m not good at painting water scenes but it would be an excellent task to have a go at. All so beautiful..thank you !!
I was totally channeling summer yesterday too. I decided to walk to school with two 3 year olds, then after school we walked to the dairy for ice blocks. Then we started our walk up the hill aternating between a 5 yo (who said they didn’t want to walk as soon as they came out of the gate) to my 3 yo on my hip every street lamp. Yikes!
Wow, lovely pictures! I just love water and the sea – wish we lived nearer. Walking by a lovely lake is so relaxing. Am jealous that you are just coming up to spring. Here is the UK the summer is almost over. Well, what summer it was given that we had so much rain. It’s almost autumn….
Thanks for visitng my blog. Glad to know that the No Cry SLeep Solution worked for you, I’ve been reading that book religiously, hope it works for us too.
Gorgeous pics Sarah. Yesterday was a beautiful first day of spring wasn’t it? Shame about the 2nd day…… 🙂
Wasn’t it just a beautiful day?! We spent most of our day out of doors as well and I’m so glad we got to soak up some sun 🙂 Looks like it was fabulous in your neck of the woods, too! Great pictures!
Great pics as usual! Nice to see more of you too in the WW. Maybe next week my camera will be back but for now I am like you with the iphone pix. X
You look lovely! I love the look of beach hair… ha ha, I have to put product in my hair to give it that tousled, been-on-the-beach-all-day look! I live way to far away from the coast :o(
Love it! Those pictures really brought a smile to my face. Always good to have something to remind us that indeed you can’t beat Wellington on a good day – it’s raw beauty is amazing. As is yours!!