Although DH and I don’t normally ‘do’ Valentines Day he did come in  this morning with a bunch of red roses, which was pretty unexpected therefore, and all the nicer for that.  He learned from chatting to the florist that they were grown in Ecuador and shipped, which is amazing, but roses do grow perfectly well here – we have some (not red) in our own garden.  Out on the beach the past couple of mornings, too, the ‘engravings’ have shown more of the Valentine Day theme, so I thought I’d wish all my readers a happy day wherever you are, and  regardless of whatever you do/don’t do about Valentines Day -and share these pics with you . The beach is interesting, being in itself a constantly changing chart of the mood of the people who use it to loll, walk, sunbathe, swim, run, jog, ride bikes and motorbikes on, make offerings or discard rubbish on (often intertwined imho – it can be hard to tell.)

I can’t  believe that as I was about to photograph this in the top pic, I stopped and talked to a friend who came along, and in chatting a while managed to blur the outline of the heart on it – took the pic anyway…. and in the one further down with big lettering ‘Gaby te amo’ means Gaby I love you – several such declarations on the sand this week.  It’s not just this week, but there are just more than usual.  There were one or two dead chooks yesterday, so although the offerings have eased off a bit, they will appear from time to time.  Avagoodvalentinesday as they might say in  AUS.