Somewhere only we know

I walked across an empty land

I knew the pathway like the back of my hand

I felt the earth beneath my feet

Sat by the river and it made me complete

Oh simple thing, where have you gone?

I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

I came across a fallen tree

I felt the branches of it looking at me

Is this the place we used to love?

Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?

Oh simple thing, where have you gone?

I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute, why don't we go

Talk about it somewhere only we know?

This could be the end of everything

So why don't we go somewhere only we know?

Somewhere only we know

Oh simple thing, where have you gone?

I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

So tell me when you're gonna let me in

I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin

And if you have a minute, why don't we go

Talk about it somewhere only we know?

This could be the end of everything

So why don't we go? So why don't we go?

Oh, this could be the end of everything

So why don't we go somewhere only we know?

Somewhere only we know

Somewhere only we know

-Keane

I can feel the change in the air. The excitement that the school year is days from being over. Which also means that our beach days are soon to be over as well. We will certainly go to the beach in a traditional sense this summer, but these days of solitude - days of only us are coming to an end. There is just something magical about walking to the beach in the afternoon and looking down that stretch where sand and water meet and seeing no one. No people in our favorite spot, no dogs running around wet and shaking water on us, no screams from a group of boys coming down to cool off in the water.

I realized the other day as I took these pictures of Hailey how fleeting- not only these days, but the years are. It hit me that we only have two more years of this. As I sat and tried to recall all the days and years we have been doing this I found a pattern. It all started with me and Spencer. And then there were two as Evan was added to our little group. For only one year, I had all three kids down there. Then Spencer started school full time and it was just me and Evan and Hailey. And now just her - back to one again - and I am starting to mourn the fact that those days are numbered.

This beach has always been my safe haven, Trent calls it my strength alluding to the fact that it is in a way my "Tara". I can see the same feelings toward the beach starting with my kids, and I love that. We are so lucky to have such a place only footsteps from our door.

We will hope for lovely weather for our last day at our beach before the kids get out of school and to quote Jimmy Buffett "the circus comes to town". If the weather cooperates and the wind is not too strong maybe we will even bring a picnic lunch and relish for the afternoon - somewhere only we know.