Healing with Hope

07/30/2025

Only Someone Far greater than MAN could have created this masterpiece, caught on camera by Cathy

07/22/2025

With Always Sunny In Surfside – I'm on a streak! I've made it onto their weekly engagement list 8 weeks in a row. 🎉

07/22/2025

Do you believe this ?
“ Bathing Carriages”???

Victorian-Era Bathing Carriages, 1890s :

These wheeled, roofed carts allowed beachgoers, particularly women, to change into their swimwear and enter the water in privacy, maintaining decorum during a time of strict social norms.

During this time, women were required to remain fully dressed until they entered a bathing carriage to change into their swimsuits. Once inside, someone would push the carriage into the ocean, allowing the women to enter the water in privacy, without being seen in their swimsuits.

A bather would enter the machine on the beach, change, and then the machine would be pushed or rolled into the sea, allowing them to descend into the water without being seen in their swimwear.

Bathing machines became largely obsolete by the early 20th century due to changing social attitudes towards public modesty and the development of more practical swimwear. While most have disappeared, some surviving bathing machines are now used as beach huts or tourist attractions, offering a glimpse into a unique aspect of seaside history.

Irish playwright Walley Chamberlain Oulton described them as "four-wheeled carriages, covered with canvas, with an awning at one end of the same material, which is lowered to the surface of the water, so that the bather, descending a few steps, is concealed from public view, allowing the most refined woman to enjoy the benefits of the sea with the utmost modesty."

Bathing carriages were widely used in England until late 1890s, when they were permanently stationed on beaches. However, by 1914, most of them had disappeared from the United Kingdom.

07/22/2025

Just had to post this gorgeous sunrise taken by Cathy Kelley- without her glasses!

07/17/2025

Couldn’t resist sharing this amazingly gorgeous sunrise with you, my friends!

07/17/2025

Another incredible play of Clouds, Sun, and Water!!!!
Thanks again Dear Cathy Kelley!

07/15/2025

So ethereal ! A slice of Heaven on Earth amidst the sea!

Thanks Cathy - once again , for gifting us this vision!!!

07/15/2025

Look at the reflection of clouds in the water, as a great example of cloud artistry!

Thank you Cathy!

Early morning views 💙🌊🏖️ I have an early start today so happy Tuesday and enjoy your day 🙏🏻❤️

07/08/2025

How bout this beautiful hungry Great Heron!

07/04/2025

We Hold These Truths

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

This is what’s important on this 249th Birthday of the USA!

Let us Not Forget, as:

Apathy is NOT an Option
!!!!!

Marilyn Roderick BS RN MD - soon to turn 79 yrs old and Always have and will continue to believe all of the above

07/02/2025

What do y’all think of this incredible cloud setting ?

Hard to believe it’s real!

Thanks , Dear Cathy!

Friday Vibes 🌅🏖️🌊