Tiny Tuesday : : Web

I was out in the garden looking for tiny things this morning when Tim and Owen arrived.  Olive spent a few nights with us so that the family could go on a final trip before school starts next week. They chose the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, a place where we took Tim and the family when they were Maya and Owen's age. Maya and Tim rode the roller coaster four times and Owen got a new skateboard. He converted our carpetless hallway to a track and rode back and forth tirelessly* while Tim and OilMan and I reminisced about the boardwalk.

Opened in1904, the boardwalk is a seaside amusement park which has managed to add new attractions without losing its nostalgic feel as the states' oldest surviving amusement park. It's like a combination county fair, history museum, arcade and amusement park. One can wander along the boardwalk and enjoy fair food of all descriptions from corn dogs to salt water taffy. And as if all that weren't enough, there's always the beach. Maya and Owen are the fourth generation in our family to go to the boardwalk for my grandparents lived in the Santa Cruz Mountains and visiting them was an annual affair which always included a trip to the boardwalk. OilMan too remembers going there as a boy, riding the carrousel, and the Big Dipper and spending hours in the penny arcade.

When Tim finished showing us his pictures, Owen was still cruising back and forth in front of us on his skateboard. Every once in awhile, from the depths of the long hallway would be a crash followed by Owen"s, "I'm OK!". So, fortunately was the china....

After they left with Olive, I went back outside to resume my search for tiny things. By then everyone but the bees was having an afternoon siesta. I chose the web because of its complex system of entrances and the fact that those are not water droplets but ashes. They must make it kind of hard for the spider to make a living if it relies on invisibility....

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