Thankful

During this season of Thanksgiving, I am counting my blessings. I have so much to be thankful for. I am blessed with a beautiful, loving wife and two wonderful children. My children have married two wonderful spouses and have given my wife and I two beautiful grandchildren. I am truly blessed to have survived double by-pass surgery in 2015 and am doing well. God has given me his healing touch and allowed me to be around to see the marriage of both my children and the birth of our two grand babies. He has allowed us to find a new home and blessed us during our retirement. I now have more time for family after teaching and coaching for 38 years. Retirement also allows me more time to hunt, fish and ride a few waves when the opportunity arises.

Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day, I had the opportunity to travel to Surfside, Texas. and ride some clean, green surf in the waist-high range. It was a beautiful, sunny day with mild air and water temperatures. The area I surfed was not crowded at all. The area near the jetty was really packed with surfers who entered the water where there was some beach remaining. I chose the less crowded area and navigated my way down the rocks to the shallow beach waters. On this trip I took my GoPro Session with a mouth piece to get some video footage to share on my website. In a three-hour session I had eighty-one clips with twenty-one editable waves ridden. I narrowed it down to about ten and put together a short video of a beautiful day in God’s creation. Here is a short video of some of the waves I caught in Surfside.

On my way home, I went through Galveston, Texas, and took some shots with my Canon SLR of the surfers at the 91st Galveston Fishing Pier. Most of the surfers were on the south side of the pier which made it a challenge to shoot pictures into the setting sun. I managed to get a few keeper shots before calling it a day. Here is another short video of some of the still shots from that late afternoon on Wednesday.

I hope your family time was Covid-free and filled with good food and conversation this Thanksgiving. Don’t forget to reach out to loved ones who can not travel and share a moment with them. Give God thanks for the good things in your life, and try to get outdoors and share God’s creation with those around you. [1 Chronicles 16:8] “Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.”

God bless you and thanks for reading my blog. Enjoy the videos.

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Tim Lumpkin

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