Goodbye my lover. Goodbye my friend. You have been the one. You have been the one for me.

And there it goes... goodbye summer! Goodbye freedom! I got 2 very much needed weeks off school for summer. The Mister had 4. He needed them more and man, oh man am I sad to see them go. The two main things we did to celebrate summer included spending a week up in Southern Oregon visiting family and gallivanting, and going to see Lost Boys in Santa Cruz (where the above picture was taken.) Other than that we lazed around in our underwear, bbq'd, watched a lot of tv and ate a lot of popcorn. I'm sad to see it go... How long is it until Christmas?

Help me prolong my summer by sharing yours. What are your plans?

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Santa Cruz, you're not that far...

Yesterday we had a great day in Santa Cruz even though the weather was drizzly and gloomy - felt like home to me. I can't wait to go back to the Santa Cruz boardwalk in the summertime. I'm sad it'll be without my big brother and his girlfriend but going with the husband will be fine ;)

After our gallivanting in Santa Cruz we had pizza for dinner then went to the cinema to see Sherlock Holmes. The perfect end to a fun day.

"Life is only as good as the memories you make..."

It was just a few weeks ago we were queueing up to rinse the sand off our feet at Cannon Beach, Oregon and now the leaves on the trees are turning red and getting ready to drop from their branches. There's a lot of change going on in my life this Autumn.

What about you?

Isn't Autumn great?

Sands of Time.... [ Vikki ]

My feet have wandered in this picture, but wherever they are they will be returning to the same coastal region.

I bought these flip flops in Switzerland.

This picture is Pacific Beach.

I have a sandy adventure in my future and it's exciting.

Shiny, foot-happy people...

My boyfriend and I were lucky enough to have a Holiday in Hawaii last year! We are from Australia so it was a bit of a trek but so worth it! I had an obsession with taking pics of my self-done pedicure while on holidays and everyone commented that I had about a million pics of my feet in Hawaii! But now I know I am not alone and there are other foot-happy people out there!

- Charlotte K,
 Sydney, Australia

Oh Carolina

"My twenty favorite piggy's.

 White Lake North Carolina September 2008.

 Lindsay and Blake ages 7 and 3."

www.preppyinredneckville.blogspot.com

When there's sunshine in your sole...

"there is nothing quite like the sand in your toes, the salt on your lips and the sunshine in your soul!"
-CMJ 
Provo, Utah

"Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?..."

"My husband and I had fun on a Ferris wheel in the Newport Beach area on our 8^th year anniversary last August."
-Laura S

Great Expectations.

"I spent 4 days in LA with my sister and a girlfriend visiting our other girlfriend. We found LA dreary and dismal, I mean the Hollywood Blvd we all see on tv is only 3 blocks long! Our highlight was Disneyland. But on our last morning, before our plane left, my local friend took us to Santa Monica Pier. It was gray out and smelly. And no one was around. But I did get some great photographs. And this one is my favorite. It sums up the highlights of the entire trip and our expectations for what we had hoped it would be. It’s my sister on the left and my LA friend on the right."

"I hate my feet… they are known as Damon Feet. A throwback to the Flintstone era inherited from our father’s family, our feet are wide and thick, and we all have them- brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles. So imagine my surprise when my beautiful baby boy is born and he has long thin feet with long toes! I love this picture with our wedding rings. He is only a week old, and still soft and squishy."

-Erin

One short year and ten perfect little piggies later...

"I was pregnant with our first child when we took a trip to the coast of Oregon. I had to document our first trip to the beach with a photo of our toes! Little did I know 1 year later we would be on the beach again in Texas. This time we had 10 little toes joining ours...it was wonderful! "
Megan S.
Kirtland NM

Puppy Love

"Here is a picture of me and my dog Britty on the beach in Oregon. It was taken the summer before he died. We got him when I was 16 and he lived until I was 26. I still miss him." — Nichole

Awesome, there's nothing more to it...

"I have a really conventional life: husband, two kids, house in the suburbs, government job. I love it, but it's not unusual. Last week I did something very out of the ordinary (for me): I took a solo vacation to Puerto Rico. I took this picture with the intention of hanging it at my desk, a reminder of the tropical breezes on my toes."

It Dawned on us...

"It's so nice once you get home to be able to relive your view just from a photo."

-Dawn

"My feet... they take me wherever I go."

"Everywhere I go, I take pictures of my feet. I thought people would think that I was weird, but then I saw your blog and I knew that I was just normal." — Breanne

It's not true, Breanne. You're more than just normal. You're one of us now!

Joy's joy:

"This is babies first time feeling the sand between his toes at Manhattan Beach in Los Angeles California taken in February of 2009."

-Joy and Ki

Fiji Time

This is probably the most peaceful place on Earth, certainly that I've ever visited. It couldn't be any further from my life here (literally, being almost antipodal to Scotland!). Someday I'll go back...

A true gypsy.

"These feet have been to all seven continents but here they are in pure relaxation mode."

-Jennifer