Snag on Assateague Island in MarylandBetween the heat wave, being very busy at work, and my travel schedule, I’ve decided to take a break from blogging regularly here on a Passion for Pipes. It’s hard to think about pipe-smoking in triple digit temperatures. I’m not sure when I will return to regular posting. It will happen when it happens, I guess.

The week before last, Wendy and I spent  ten days over on the Atlantic at her parents beach house. I spent hours reading and smoking my pipes there; I can’t believe that over ten days I read seven novels and one biography. I went through a boatload of Magnolia Avenue, too. We had a great rest there and I got out into the wilds of the islands there and did some photography. You see one of the shots from Assateauge Island here – a photo of a dead tree shot at sunset. The mosquitos were vicious that night; I paid for this shot in blood.