Children are back in school, the beaches are quiet, Boardwalk rides up and down the coast are closed for the season.
Memories remain, like specters.
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Tag Archives: New Jersey
With the Accent on ‘Jingle’
purple GOLD white
broken WHOLE broken
coquina JINGLE crab
The accent is on the jingle shell, as it should be.
Singular Sensation [Crescent]
Single pebble, single cluster of bubbles, single crescent – like a moon.
Lean on Me
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.
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! I have been saving this photo from last November for use today!
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.
The Ocean’s Lines
I look and look at this photo, wondering why this particular piece of seaweed, which was very malleable, did not follow the sweep of the tide lines.
Tide Line Still Life 