The Calm Before the Storm

Of course these pictures don't give justice to the real beauty of the night, but it captures a little of it.

Friday night turned out to be a true blessing. It was the most beautiful evening I can remember in a long time; the kind you wish you could bottle up and save for later. I'd had a rough afternoon with my anxiety so instead of going thru with our previous plans for the night, we decided to just take it easy and take a walk down to the beach together. The sunset was absolutely breathtaking, and the temperature was just perfect. It wasn't muggy, it wasn't hot, it wasn't cold, it was just perfect. We ran into this sweet elderly man who was just hobbling along with his cane and he commented how it was such a beautiful night to be out. It was touching to see him still being able to be thankful for the simple things even tho he could barely walk. So we get to the beach and the tide is so high it's over the bottom stairs of the boardwalk and all the way to edge of the rock wall which we've never seen before. And then something catches our eyes, and we see dolphins just a few feet away. We could've swam out to them, that's how close they were! The whole experience was just like magic. We just sat in silence on the top step until it was dark.