I am truly blessed to live only six miles from the Atlantic Ocean.  The sound of the water is so calming and mesmerizing.  (I have a theory about why...look for that in a future blog post!) The cool breeze is always welcome on a hot summers day.  We can actually feel it at our home. 

The sand is made of all different sizes of granite and there are an abundance of Common Atlantic Slipper shells.  I remember one winter day, about 30 years ago, when my aunt called me to tell me that hundreds of starfish had washed ashore on a certain part of the shoreline that we call, "The Rocks".  They had all sadly died, so we brought some home.  I actually still have some of those amazing shells.  One thing that I rarely see here on our shores are sand dollars. 

When I travel to FL I am always so excited to find a peice of a sand dollar.  A few times I have actually found whole ones!  When I was at Cannon Beach in OR, I found many! I...