… Along the Tide
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Milk Quartz and Folded Sea Lettuce
Repose
Tumbled into softness, a twig and a brick create an eroded still life.
Blue Pebble, Sprouted
The pebbles on this area of the Northumberland coast are all beautifully multi-colored, like the shades in a lovely, soft tweed. Every color in the rainbow is present, delicate and muted. This one pebble, though, stood apart as a more vivid blue. Perhaps it is the seaweed beside it in this still life that brings out the blue.
Loving Northumberland’s Coastline
There is nothing … nothing … that I do not love about the Northumberland coastline. From the cliffs, to the dunes, from the wild waves and enormous tidal shifts, to the castles that dot the horizon, I love this area of the world. For one small second, captured here on Spittal’s beach, I sensed the coastline smiling back at me.
Bleached
The bleached and eroded pebbled and shell fragment work together to create a foil for the sparkling sand. And oh, how it sparkled yesterday!
Of Sky and Sea
Spittal, Northumberland
Not Quite Closed
Elegant curves and an intriguing root structure.
Not quite a closed form, though. This might irk some geometry teachers that I know.
Sea Glass and Trapped Bubbles
As if the sand and pebbles on Spittal Beach are not colorful enough, this bit of turquoise sea glass on the tide line added to the beauty. And the bubbles that remained from the last wash of the tide? An added surprise!
The Surprise of Turquoise
This photo is not the most clear because I was truly surprised by this splash of color, caught unaware with only my iPhone as a camera. It was a magic day spent with my in-laws driving along a small section of the Delaware Bay in NJ. Horseshoe crabs were ashore laying eggs, birds numbered in the thousands, the tide was low, and the conversation warm. They stayed in the car while I wandered a bit at the site of the East Bay Light House.
This photo may not be perfect, but our day was.
Tide Line Still Life 