Great to be back!

I spent 10 days in Ocean City, MD recently.  It takes a lot for me to get motivated to leave the Finger Lakes area during the peak of fall leaf season.  BUT, some good friends offered us the use of their time share so...leave we did.  What a place!  It was right on the bay and I do mean right on the water.  So close that one could fall in if one wasn't very careful on the deck after enjoying a glass of wine!  (No, no one fell in.)  Wow! 

The Delmarva Peninsula is very narrow and flat and beautiful.  Seafood restaurants abound even in the off season and we ate our share of crab, oysters, clams, rockfish, crabcakes, salmon and more.  We saw wild ponies at Assateague and a variety of birds including loons, egrets and cormorants as we walked for miles and miles on the beaches and boardwalk.  In fact, we even broke the pedometer we walked so much!  We spent time with family and we sure did have a blast. 

But this is a blog about the Finger Lakes and so, here's my point:  Our vacation was fabulous but it's just so great to be back home!  Back home and enjoying what's left of the fall colors and the green but slowly turning brown hills.  I sure did miss the hills.  Back home jogging -- or at least power walking -- 'round my quiet, quaint neighborhood with my dog (and sometimes my cat, but that's a story for another time).  Back home and hanging out on the deck at Castaways on the inlet while the Indian summer weather holds!  Back home and having an excellent meal, as always, at The Ithaca Ale House.  Back home and seeing the lake smooth as glass.  Life is indeed good.  CCat 6:50pm on 10.28.10.