December 27 - Out of the Fog


Up reasonably early,


and into the car,


first for breakfast in Media,


then onward,


below miraculously clearing skies, via Atlantic City Expressway


and


Garden State Parkway,


to


Somers Point


and


the


Great


Egg


Harbor


Causeway


Welcome


Center,


and


beyond to


Ocean City.


First


stop,


the


condo,


taking


in


the



views



and


muraled



pool


complex;


next,


down


to


the


Boardwalk


and


9th


Street


Beach,


continued


welcome


blue


skies,


though


blustery,


sand-


scudding-


across-


sand,


back


on


the


Boards,


to the temporary northern end,


then southwest past the


Music Pier toward the auto once more.


Beyond,


it's


a


return


to the


Point Diner for a Fisherman's Platter (stop 3 on the Philadelphia-Area Food Groups),


then


residence-ward in the


setting sun


and


pulsating lights.


Dropping off George, Bette, and Chris --


time to


head


south...  High a wintery 46 at home (by far the coldest day of the year, surpassing by 4 the previous 50, a week before, on December 20 -- and the only day this year that could be considered "winter" thus far); 65 at Bette and George's, 67 Ocean City, a summery 72 in Roanoke Rapids, NC...