Jalama Beach

We went to Jalama Beach this weekend despite the gray skies. The only folks there were the surfers so we had the beach to ourselves for the most part and only had to turn back from our walk when the tide started to come in and threatened to turn our stroll into a swim (and regardless of what you've heard about SoCal weather, it was WAY too cold to swim). Marius became obsessed with the number of lady bugs we found on the washed up kelp. So, if anyone knows why they seem to like kelp (other than just having been blown down from the grass covered bluffs above -my current hypothesis), feel free to comment so I can pass it along to him.

The other thing that happened this weekend is that I finally got an order of knitting books from amazon.com. So of course now I'm working on designing a yoke sweater that incorporates some of the charts from the Fassett book. Like I don't have enough projects to finish already...