the unlikely orange

oh man. reality is a slap in the face. you go away for a week. by the middle of the week you've finally calmed down enough to take a look around and realize how nice this is. and before you know it its all over and the alarm clock is ringing again. that said, we had an AWESOME vacation in cape may. here are a few of the pics, and to see many more you can go here .

yep, this is me. sometime in the early '90s i think. in florida, most likely. i thought i was so cool. not much has changed.... ps. today is shannon and my 9th wedding anniversary. we're celebrating with a day at the beach and a nice dinner out with just the two of us!

its a wednesday morning. the twenty-fifth day of june, to be exact, although, from where i sit, it doesn't seem to matter. from where i sit i can see no calendars with all their restrictive straight lines. from where i sit i see no record of days and their demands. i'm just sitting here soaking in the salty air and staring off at how the curvy sand slides down slowly to the edge of water. i'm just sitting here. occasionally, i take a sip of my third mug of coffee. i'm not particularly worried about where i am on any map or calendar. i'm much more interested in those flirty dolphins out there in that cold cold water, playing their wet game of hide and seek with the sun. i'm much more interested in the sound of dancing waves, punctuated by gulls and other quick little birds, singing their tiny little hearts out. i'm much more interested in the way the blue-lavendar of all this hydrangea stands out against the backdrop of wheat colored sand. -- yes, ...

"seductive" mixed media collage on book board gregory a. milinovich here is a collage i made a couple of weeks ago. for whatever reason, this one has really captured my imagination, and i am really into it, more than i usually am for my own collages. anyway, i thought i would share it with you today. things are great here on vacay. i just rode here on my bike along the atlantic coast. now i'm drinking some kind of coconut coffee listening to patty griffin. it doesn't get much better, really...

hello friends. its monday morning here in cape may, new jersey. i woke up early before the kids and got out without waking them up (which is a major miracle, considering that all four of us are sleeping in the same room!), and rode my bike over to an internet cafe. i have no wireless access at the house, which means i won't be uploading any pics from our trip until after we return next week some time. however, i will try and stop in from time to time this week just to let you know how we are doing. we got here yesterday around 4 and settled in. the house is awesome and it is seriously 1/2 block from the atlantic ocean. we took a little walk with the boys down to the water last night, and i haven't seen jack so excited since we were in times square. he was jumping and running and smiling the whole time. he's had a ton of expectations about seeing "the ocean and sharks and eels and octupusses," so i was concerned that he would be pretty disappointed. but so...

so you may not hear from me as much this week, just as a warning. i'll be in cape may on a little holiday down the shore. when i have the chance, i may check in just to say hi, but i shouldn't expect to update the blog everyday.

here are my pics from the yankee game the other night.