Friendly Friday – Splendour in the Grass

One of the best memories I’ll keep from 2020 is seating on the grass, still slightly damp from the previous night, and feel it between my toes. I am glad I have passed on this joy to my son too. We would seat and have our ice lollies while digging our toes in the cool, mostly overgrown, grass.

These are not from our grass, but the grass that always fascinated me as a photographer, beachgrass and dunes. I remember growing up and going to the beaches near Lisbon in the Summer. It would take sometimes over an hour to get there solely because of traffic, under really high temperatures with no air con. Then the sea would be cold, as it is the Atlantic. But, the redeeming feature would be the walk from the car park to the beach, through the dunes. That was something special.

At Bamburgh in England, you even get a castle to go with the dunes and the sun, the cold wind battering down on the beachgrass, like waves of a different kind of sea.

Posted for Amanda’s Friendly Friday Challenge