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A New Year – and 365 fresh starts!
The Beach Today Usually, on my walks I filter people out and focus on the backdrop to our human activity, reaching out and touching the natural world that holds us at all times in the palm of its hand. Today however, I was struck by the presence of people on the beach, standing out as…
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A present for everyone
The beach today The end of another day. It started frosty, then rained, and after that, the sun peeked through to diffuse the dying of the day with gentle light: Just as the waves roll relentlessly, so the sky changes with each passing air current. How do we find peace in the constant tumbling change…
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An upside down day
The beach today It strikes me as a kind of upside down type of day: The sea is quiet and lying grey as a still backdrop while the sky above is full of rolling waves! Pleats of cloud gallop across the sky like a stormy sea, layers of colour highlighting their energy and the capture…
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No borders
The beach today Today was what I call a ‘no borders’ day; misty and grey with low-lying cloud so that it feels as if I am living inside a chalk or pastel impressionist painting. Boundaries are blotted, blurring the distinction between sea and sky, land and air, near and far, day and night, today and…
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Finding light in the dark
The beach today What do you notice first in this photograph – the amazing deep black clouds ahead or the fact that the photo is taken in sunshine? Did you know? Dark has an impact on human mood, and behaviour. According to research students sitting by a window will do better in a test than…
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Rockpool World
The beach today A spiky forest left behind after a high tide. What must it be like to have two totally different lives – standing tall and drying in the air, and then to feel weightless and float and flow under water….. I suppose we all have different lives rolled into one…. I so loved…
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A cheery ‘hello’ extra!
I was walking on the beach this morning and I saw this little fellow! I thought I would share it to give everyone the smile it gave me – are we grateful for the random flow and ebb of the tide or for an earlier morning walker who added the eye…? Either way, it is…
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Sand artists
The beach today On such a wide, open beach it is not hard to feel our ‘smallness’ in relation to sea and sky, but looking down, the sand shows us that we are not the smallest. There are some very tiny artists creating wonderful patterns right under our feet. Did you know? Although the wide…
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Sunset
The beach Nature’s gift, such beauty at the end of the day. Sunsets are always slightly different, a remix of oranges, pinks and red contrasted with the glassy blue of a night sea. They flare and glow with the spark and pzazz of a stage show, dramatic and showy, a glorious celebration of light. They…
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Raindrops are falling on my head…
I do love a good map, especially a weather map, and this is the ‘rainfall radar’ from the MetOffice (https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/public/weather/observation/rainfall-radar#?map=Rainfall&fcTime=1664914500&zoom=5&lon=-4.00&lat=55.01) There are lots of different kinds of rainy days. There are the ones that are accompanied with flashes of sun between rolling black clouds. On the beach, you can usually see the downpours coming: A…
Marine Moments 