Illumination Night...Tent City, Ocean Grove

August 8th, before my adventures were put on hold, one highlight was our visit to Ocean Grove.

Ocean Grove, is a popular vacation spot in New Jersey known for its Victorian homes,

 boutique shopping, restaurants and beautiful beaches.

Ocean Grove is also home to Tent City, 

a colony of canvas tents attached to wooden cottages that provide all of the comforts of home.

One might wonder why anyone would want to live in a tent for the summer...

Saturday night Tent City came alive with lanterns, lights and a music concert.

I have written about Ocean Groves Tent City before, you can read one of those entries here.

We usually go for a walk here at least once per summer.

The tents are emptied out and closed up in early September.

I believe there is a waiting list of about 15 years in order to rent one of these and they usually stay in families and are passed from one generation to the next.

The people who live here love it!

Finding A New Rhythm....

routine, happiness and my ever important mojo!

Things here are a little bit different now, 

I have been making changes and adjustments daily until I have fully recovered.

I could really go for a smaller home, in the middle of nowhere...

a rocking chair on the front porch, pumpkins and mums lining the steps...soup in the crockpot.

I am happiest at home, "being at home" is perhaps my favorite "hobby".

Doing "granny" things like knitting, coloring, painting...paper projects, my junk journal

and the many other crafts I have dabbled into!

All of this surrounds me when I am home, along with the person I love most.

The hubs took this picture for me, a view from our backyard of the river we live on.

The evening skies have been so soothing!

    

I have enjoyed coloring for some time now, but I have recently become "obsessed"!

In the hospital, and during my recovery at home, I have been coloring every day.

This is the book that I have been coloring in.

There are a total of 120 different pictures in the book, I have colored 60.

Each week I will be sharing a few of the ones I have finished, so, be forewarned.

And a special thank you to everyone who has visited and left well wishes.

I am slow visiting, but soon, things will be back to normal.

- Fingers Crossed -