Photos from my Week...

Welcome friends. It is another Friday already and time for Friday Foto Friends and Skywatch Friday. 
It's been a hot and humid but mostly sunny week by the New Jersey seashore and residents and tourists are enjoying the last month of summer to the hilt!  The season will wind down after Labor Day which is the official end of the beach season here in NJ as lifeguards no longer work. The boardwalks stay open all year for the most part because people go to eat there, etc. and for daily walks along the coast. You can swim up until late September or early October but there is no beach protection during those times.
School in New Jersey is always after Labor Day because of tourism. I know it begins earlier in other parts of the country.
Here are my offerings for this week's photographs. They are bits of life as I lived it this past week. I hope you enjoy coming along.

It's nice to eat outside in the summer time with family and some friends...

When I finished grocery shopping Wednesday night, the sun was going down.

In the little pond,  frogs play and wait for dinner to fly on by, the fountain bubbles and life goes on as usual.

Black Eyed Susans are scattered in great profusion everywhere.

The sky always provides a lovely show, rain or shine, night or day.

Miss Allie Gator has called my backyard home for at least 15 years.

She is 6 feet long and weighs practically nothing as she is made of some kind of plastic.

The kids gave her to me as a gift and she guards the big pond in the back.

The bay is calm and lovely. There are cool breezes that blow off the water on the hottest of days making them tolerable and 10 degrees cooler than the interior of the state.

 The little fishing pier in the evening on the bay is always a nice place to sit and take in the breezes and the salt air.

I hope your weekend is special, peaceful and lovely.