Half Moon Beach

Cape Ann is Massachusetts' best kept secret! It is much closer than Cape Cod (to the north rather than to the south) and ten times more beautiful. Scott surprised me with an unexpected trip to the beach, Half Moon Beach, on July 19. We didn't get an early enough start and only had the sand for about an hour and a half before it was consumed by the incoming tide, so when our friends and old neighbors from Hyde Park came to visit us today, Marta and and her nine year old son Elias, we simply had to go back and enjoy it once again. It feels like a foreign country...so beautiful! I forgot my camera, so I'm waiting for Marta's pictures of the four of us...