Katie's 18th birthday

October 24th was my oldest granddaughter Katie's birthday, but we had a family party and celebrated last evening. We had Chinese take out and birthday cake at my son's house.

 

so serious cutting her cake

frosting on her nose..thanks to Jenea

Lily and Paul Katie and Bella Lily, Katie, Bella Katie, Paul and Bella

Jenea my step  granddaughter and Katie

     Katie and Bella

Bella before eating chocolate birthday cake. Bella loves birthday cake and frosting as you can see in the photos below she really digs into her cake.

 

At the Beaches

   
  These are the last of my weekend photos. (you can see the others in prevoius posts) Over the weekend we stopped at several Cape beaches. There were lots of other people taking advantage the gorgeous weather this late into October.
Some were sunning, others walking  and some were walking their dogs. I looked for shells.
Some men were involved in some type of parasailing or paragliding. I'm not really sure what this sport is called, but it looked like a lot of fun. The men had large kites of some type with a  gasoline powered propeller strapped to their backs. They would start the engine, wait for a wind and run towards the beach and then they were airborne and enjoying the beach from the air. The sails were controlled by cords. The photos below were taken at  Mayflower Beach in Dennis. Most of the photos were taken looking into the sun so the sky isn't bright blue in all of the pictures.



 
Sandy Neck in Barnstable. With permits campers can camp on the beach
crow sitting on a sign at Grays Beach aka Bass Hole area
bitter sweet tangled in the bushes at Grays Beach, Sandwich
sand dunes Mayflower Beach, Dennis

my sand writings at Skaket beach
  low tide sand ripples at Skaket.
at low tide you can walk out for a very long way. This beach has great sand and no rocks.
  low tide..Skaket
I enjoyed my weekend away. It was nice to relax and just enjoy the warm weather.

Cape Cod photos from Fort Hill

Fort Hill is a gorgeous area on the Cape Cod National Seashore in Eastham. There are lots of walking trails down to the water and marsh and paths are along the woods.  Sunday was a gorgeous day to be there. Check out these websites or do a google search of your own.

Eastham/Fort Hill area

Secret Escape 

There are huge fields behind the split rail fences, and I took a few photos of some plants.

sweet peas growing wild in the fields. There were many plants still blooming this late in October.

Queen Anne's lace..gone by..I liked the texture of the skeletal remains of what was left of the flower

milk weed pod with seeds bursting out of the open pod

  milk weed pod...a favorite of mine. The fluff is so soft and silky just like down.

milk weed pod filled with seeds

   fisherman in his boat at Fort Hill

  silly seagull sitting on the roof of my car and wouldn't move

seagull on the roof of my vehicle 

Below are some miscellaneous photos that I took while out and about on Route 28.

  stain glass window on the side of this flower cart stand by the roadside.

front of the flower stand hydrangeas that are great for drying

These are the last of my Cape photos from my weekend visit. I hope you enjoyed looking thru them.