I took my mom and her most excellent cat to the beach house for the weekend.
We did some birding (me and mom, not me and the cat), and I got the best kind of exercise–on the beach. Yesterday morning I finished Couch to 5k Week 1 Day 3 on the beach. I plan to shall stick with the program and be back to running a 5k within 2 months. I’ll get another four miles of irritation-zapping walking in this morning, which hopefully will hold me over on the long drive to my mother’s home in Northwest Houston. Yes, I love my mother; and still she irritates me. But I’ve been a good girl (mostly), and have been patient with her. Or at least more patient than I had been before the roof caved in.
Maybe I should err on the side of caution and shoot for 5 miles after I finish my coffee.
What follows are a few shots of the beach. I forgot my real camera, but took over 200 shots on my iPhone. I wanted to review them on the larger screen on my iPad and post only those most worthy of you, my discerning readers. Sadly I can’t figure out how to transfer photos from my iPhone to my iPad except to email them to myself one by one. But I only have that kind of patience when it comes to wooing stray cats. (And certainly not mothers.) I gave up after transferring about 30 photos. Here’s a few of the 30:
There’s a rather large number I haven’t yet transferred of our birding excursion on 8-Mile Road. I shall research a mass photo transfer and post a few keepers in the days to come.
unConfirmed Bachelorette 
Your ipad should have a USB cord that you can connect to your iphone and mass transfer that way 🙂
when in doubt, google “transfer pictures from iphone to ipad”
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I googled it! None of the things I found were this simple. Thank you!
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Patience with technology is not one if my string points either. These are great shots! In love the beach shots!
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Thanks! I finally got a much-needed ocean fix. Ahhhhhh.
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Love the shots! Glad it went well for both your sakes. If you set up photostream in iPhoto, it will automatically transfer images from your iPhone to your iPad and the other way round.
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Thanks! I knew someone would be smarter than me on the technology. 🙂
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Kitty would’ve loved to go birding. 🙂
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He wanted to eat the seagulls I fed in front of him. I reminded him he is much too civilized for that kind of behavior.
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love the pictures! very peaceful
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The ocean is the best way I know to reconnect and find solace. I think my mom enjoyed herself. I shall do a repeat in the not too distant future. Death–the ultimate uniter.
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The only thing missing in that last picture is me sitting on the shore. Sigh.
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It is a magical place. Too bad it’s nearly a 5-hour drive. I’d be sharing beach photos a lot more often.
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