I loved it! I am at the Jersey Shore right now. Stone Harbor. I haven’t seen the ocean yet. I’m waiting for tomorrow’s walk. But I will be eating on the bay and watching a beautiful sunset I hope.
I loved watching you draw this. Getting ready to go out to dinner with a smile on my face.
Your experience of the beach is very different from mine. All I see every day on beach walks with my dog on a Maine island is rocks, some sand, seagulls, a heron, terns. Definitely no fries and nary another person. Here is a funny story...one year we rented our island house over the winter to a mom who needed a roof and had two school age kids at the island school. We could not go to Maine until after their school ended, a week later than ours in MA. I took my kids to Onset beach (right before the bridge to Cape Cod). My then nine year old was startled by the crowds and food stalls and parking and said, "Is this what people think of as the beach!?". My five year old wanted to leave immediately. We did leave and got lunch at a small out of the way restaurant on our way home and I stopped for salt water taffy. They both agreed that it was horrible and they only wanted to go to the quiet island beaches to search for sea glass, play in the sand, try to damn up the many springs that run to the sea, and always walk there, but mostly not have more than a few people around and only people they knew. My five year old exclaimed, "Who brings a towel to lie around!" Needless to say, we still prefer exploring the different beaches here and lying out on large hot rock shelves when we need a rest.
I totally get that! I grew up going to the beach in Delaware, which is not that crowded but is a beach "scene." Then I went to camp in Maine (Sebago Lake) and fell in love with Maine. Now I go every year to the coast of Maine and much much prefer it....although to be fair they are such different experiences! My husband grew up in Jersey, so knew the Jersey shore very well. It's just honky tonk and its about the people and the circus of it all. As a cartoonist, I enjoy it. But when I want nature: MAINE. So gorgeous.
Yes. All so different. I grew up on a Finger Lake Central NY and that was different also. Basically the privacy of your front yard of me and my kids at Grandma’s house. In Maine, we are on an island and consider the coast of Maine beaches crowded. So, my kids ONLY knew the front yard lake and island beaches. Hahaha! They were SHOCKED! Talk about sheltered from the crowds. So funny that I never realized that until Onset. They literally had no idea a crowded beach with food and umbrellas and towels existed at 8 and 12 years old. It was a lesson to me. ☺️
Greetings, Liza! … This was a nice surprise on my first full day as a subscriber. … I’m an old retired, newspaper guy — reporter, columnist, copy editor and editor in towns ranging in size from 1,095 to cities as large as Fort Worth — so when I read something you wrote yesterday, I took the plunge and signed on. … Always admired cartoonists. Am fascinated by how powerfully a cartoon can strike readers. I loved getting a peek behind the curtain with your presentation today.
Thank you, Mike! So glad to have you onboard. This is a fun community of people who regularly comment--and some irregularly, some never. But it has turned out to be a great group of people.
Nice written images and I love the cartoon. My mother used to drag us to Jones Beach every year, and we ran from blanket because the sand was so hot. With 100 degree temperatures, if I were at the beach, I would put my chair smack dab in the water with a huge umbrella attached. Enjoy.
Liza!
Thanks!
"Under the Boardwalk":
"And from the park you hear
the happy sounds of the
carousel...
You can almost taste the hot dogs
and French fries they sell."
My brain plays the fine rendition by The Rolling Stones.
A second comment. Today when I was doing yard work I smelled French fries. As in a Monty Python skit, I thought: "But... from where??"
So when I read your piece, it was a happy coincidence. (I do not ever recall smelling fries at my place, and I have lived there since about 1979.)
That's so funny! Did you ever figure out where that smell came from?
I loved it! I am at the Jersey Shore right now. Stone Harbor. I haven’t seen the ocean yet. I’m waiting for tomorrow’s walk. But I will be eating on the bay and watching a beautiful sunset I hope.
I loved watching you draw this. Getting ready to go out to dinner with a smile on my face.
So glad! Enjoy your time there! I spent many years as a child going to Bethany Beach in Delaware....
Your experience of the beach is very different from mine. All I see every day on beach walks with my dog on a Maine island is rocks, some sand, seagulls, a heron, terns. Definitely no fries and nary another person. Here is a funny story...one year we rented our island house over the winter to a mom who needed a roof and had two school age kids at the island school. We could not go to Maine until after their school ended, a week later than ours in MA. I took my kids to Onset beach (right before the bridge to Cape Cod). My then nine year old was startled by the crowds and food stalls and parking and said, "Is this what people think of as the beach!?". My five year old wanted to leave immediately. We did leave and got lunch at a small out of the way restaurant on our way home and I stopped for salt water taffy. They both agreed that it was horrible and they only wanted to go to the quiet island beaches to search for sea glass, play in the sand, try to damn up the many springs that run to the sea, and always walk there, but mostly not have more than a few people around and only people they knew. My five year old exclaimed, "Who brings a towel to lie around!" Needless to say, we still prefer exploring the different beaches here and lying out on large hot rock shelves when we need a rest.
I totally get that! I grew up going to the beach in Delaware, which is not that crowded but is a beach "scene." Then I went to camp in Maine (Sebago Lake) and fell in love with Maine. Now I go every year to the coast of Maine and much much prefer it....although to be fair they are such different experiences! My husband grew up in Jersey, so knew the Jersey shore very well. It's just honky tonk and its about the people and the circus of it all. As a cartoonist, I enjoy it. But when I want nature: MAINE. So gorgeous.
Yes. All so different. I grew up on a Finger Lake Central NY and that was different also. Basically the privacy of your front yard of me and my kids at Grandma’s house. In Maine, we are on an island and consider the coast of Maine beaches crowded. So, my kids ONLY knew the front yard lake and island beaches. Hahaha! They were SHOCKED! Talk about sheltered from the crowds. So funny that I never realized that until Onset. They literally had no idea a crowded beach with food and umbrellas and towels existed at 8 and 12 years old. It was a lesson to me. ☺️
But I'm intrigued. Who's Joe??
haha. No one. Just a fun name. I was just playing with you all.
Keep playing with us; I like this new side you're revealing!
Will do!
Thanks for a trip to the beach!
Greetings, Liza! … This was a nice surprise on my first full day as a subscriber. … I’m an old retired, newspaper guy — reporter, columnist, copy editor and editor in towns ranging in size from 1,095 to cities as large as Fort Worth — so when I read something you wrote yesterday, I took the plunge and signed on. … Always admired cartoonists. Am fascinated by how powerfully a cartoon can strike readers. I loved getting a peek behind the curtain with your presentation today.
Thank you, Mike! So glad to have you onboard. This is a fun community of people who regularly comment--and some irregularly, some never. But it has turned out to be a great group of people.
Good that you included a sea gull, they’re always around.
Nice written images and I love the cartoon. My mother used to drag us to Jones Beach every year, and we ran from blanket because the sand was so hot. With 100 degree temperatures, if I were at the beach, I would put my chair smack dab in the water with a huge umbrella attached. Enjoy.