Living Coastal RSS

Many of the summer houses by the local beaches were not insulated as they were lived in only in the summer.  Families from the Hartford area owned many of the beach cottages and before air conditioning the families left their hot city homes, came to their beach houses for the summer and threw open their windows to let the cool sea breezes blow in.  The houses were not fancy on the inside but were infused with a coastal feel from whitewashing and beadboard to comfortable overstuffed sofas and chairs meant for comfort.  Iron beds with quilts served ups some wonderful rooms for relaxing and snoozing with the wind blowing through the open windows.  These coastal summer cottages would later be...

I have almost always lived by the sea.  Our summers were spent walking to the beach and smelling the summer roses and honeysuckle as we walked by the summer cottages that would fill up with children and adults.  The cottages were full of life with neighbors sitting on porches on hot summer afternoons with their iced teas while colorful beach towels snapped in the ocean breeze on clotheslines.  My summers were spent in the sun filled days on the sand or splashing in the cold sparkling waves of New England water or digging for shells and crabs in the warmer tidal pools.  Life was easy and comfortable and happiness was abundant.