Philistines!

pic: fletcher

Float

A small flower yellow, dropped on the way
to a nest by
one of it's thousands of inhabitants.

In the lee of the rock, slightly sun shadowed in
the early afternoon.
Both of us out of place.
But not.

Green strands of kelp against the blue grey surface
smeared like paint in the current.
Waiting for an artist regularly rising to the surface and breaking out
heads bobbing.

Thin mop lines of grassy hair on top.

Tired, they pull down with the wrap of a swell
losing their green and becoming a dark brown as they touch and pass by my feet.

The pursuit of happiness

pic by Fletcher

Get some liberty and freedom over you in your pursuit of happiness today! Have a great 4th of July.

Lefts is like a box of chocolates

Starving

Across the log laden with wildflowers and through the marsh onto the mud flats takes you to dinner. Clams just below the surface and a plateful with a little digging work should see your appetite sated.

I wondered how Lewis and Clark could possibly have gone wanting when they were stuck in Astoria, Indians must have been working the shoreline constantly food was literally squishing between the toes. Here we do it as side work to getting food from stores, then they were working everyday to get they needed to eat. The evidence in empty shells and the middens should have been overwhelming.

Twin and I got down and dirty in the mud as we sought an accompaniment to the elk burgers for tonight's dinner.

Glass offs

Little flutters of swell pulse, show then disappear and the only clue is the degree of south from hour to hour as it shifts between hit and miss..... You can see the surf build and come back three hours later to a lake....

More bass and a cabezon....

A curious wind

White rain of feathers off the rock,
into a clear blue surface.
Where red tails of jellies entangled,
into feet hanging down.