Tag: North Devon
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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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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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Finding space (on World Mental Health Day)
The Beach Today Sometimes all we need is a little space to ourselves. To hear ourselves breathe. To let our shoulders fold downwards, feel safe enough to close our eyes and let our mind spin out to sea, into the sky or anywhere other than rattling around our skulls…. Did you know? The beach environment…
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A Herd of Elephants!
The Beach Today Look at the way the sun is breaking through the clouds and highlighting some waves as they spill in towards the shore. The sun makes the white of their ‘fuss and bother frills’ glow and shine! Further out white flecks contrast against the deep grey, almost glass-black of the sea, the excited…
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Rolling with the Punches
The beach today Sometimes we just have to roll….like the pebbles on the beach under the greater power of the wave – there is nothing we can do about it, we are where we are, what is happening is happening and we – just have to roll. It isn’t what we like (we like nice…
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Celebrating Rainbows
The Beach Today I can appreciate the awe that must have been felt before the scientific reason behind why rainbows happen was understood: Suddenly on a dark wet day beams of light are projected upon the screen of sky: what magical trickery is this! I tried to take a photo of the whole arc, it…
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Pebble Allsorts: Magical Time Capsules
The Beach Today Looking closely at the pebbles along the ridge this morning made me hungry. They reminded me of sweets. Many of them seemed to have a layer of mint or cream through them, reminding me of Humbugs, or the black and white Liquorice Allsorts, or the sweets that are actually called ‘pebbles’….! Did…
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Blast into the week on the wings of the wind!
The Beach Today – Monday! Why creep apologetically into a new week? Let’s jump, run and launch! In Westward Ho! it is a windy day (“Blustery” as Winnie the Pooh would call it.) and the wind is a great motivator for ‘launching’ yourself into the day. On a windy day your lungs fill deeply with…
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