sunset on lake michigan

When my parents were visiting, I borrowed my dad's camera.  I went to download the pictures I took of my kids, and found these gorgeous sunset pictures he had taken at the beach.  I grew up with this beach just down the road from our house, and looking at these pictures made me pretty homesick.  I never made it out to the beach over the summer when we visited because we have both families to see when we go back home, and time is at a premium.  But I miss the beach!  I miss looking across the narrow part of Lake Michigan and seeing the Chicago skyline.  I miss standing on the shore, and looking across the waters that seem as vast as an ocean.  I miss home!  It was a crazy year.  We moved twice, and we've had to readjust over and over to new and different places and people.  I realized last Spring that since we did not go back "home" for Christmas, it was my first winter that I hadn't seen snow.  Not one flake living in South Carolina.  I know we'll see it here in Missouri, but it feels very different here, too.  I don't think "home" will ever be our home again, but I'll always think of it that way.

All photo credit for this post, goes to my Dad.  Thanks for sharing, Dad!