Snow could fall on this beautiful beach today. Lovely!
Tag Archives: morning
Into the Light
The drama of morning light provides wonderful stories.
A Bowl of Sunshine
The days are so short in December … How about a bowl of warm sunshine to start the day?
I love how the very early sunshine makes this ancient shell look like carved marble. What luck to stumble upon this right at this moment! The mussel serves to draw the eye to the center light.
‘D’ is for ‘Dazzling’
The color of the interior of this crab shell is completely natural, untouched. It mirrored the brilliant morning sun. Clearly the creature was hiding its best asset.
A Study in Translucency
As you may know, I love jingle shells. Their simplicity and fragility belies their origin in the tumbling, violent ocean. That any of them make it to the tide line is a point of amazement. This particular shell had just arrived with the last wave, hence the small bubbles within. The morning light spotlighted this tiny shell’s translucency, shining through to the sand beneath. The shell’s placement beside the opaque shell fragment makes this quality even more stunning.
Two, In the Process of Becoming
The sea continually creates new from old. Here, the small bit of shell is becoming sand, and the piece of broken glass is slowly becoming something beautiful, sea glass.
A Tough Climb
The tide line is absolutely littered with carcasses of sand crabs at this time of the year. Some seem to have had a more difficult time than others.
Gentleness
With no four-needle pines in this growing zone, this is likely from one of our abundant eastern pines, with one needle lost.
Regardless of variety, the gentle splay of the needles, the monochromatic palette, and the soft early light combine to create a lovely photograph.
I just sighed when I spotted this.
Klee-ish
This still life looks as if it was pulled from a painting by Paul Klee.
Comedy, by Paul Klee
Sun’s Up on a New Week!
Make it a good one!
Tide Line Still Life 