Chatham

Today I took the day off to get an early start. My wife, two younger ones and I drove a few hours out to South Yarmouth on the Cape. We're at the same motel we stayed at last year.-hopefully a relaxing and fun weekend. I brought another O'Brien nautical novel and four new beach chairs I got on eBay- we hope to break them in, weather permitting. The motel has a library and a ping pong table, which our teens enjoy.

Around six we ended up at Chatham Light, an operating lighthouse on a high bluff overlooking the beach. It was almost dusk and somewhat misty/foggy. We and the other tourists got to participate in evening "colors," turning from the view of the water, standing and facing the lighthouse and flagstaff with hats off as the coast guardsman lowered the flag and saluted. A sort of mental postcard.