3 posts tagged “beach”
Little bits of this 'n' that, from vacation.
My fellow vacation-goers thought I was crazy to take these shots -- neither scenic vistas nor classic kid cuteness, but just quirky little images that appealed to me. I just found them wonderfully evocative of two weeks "at the beach" with as many as 7 little kids under the same roof (ranging in age from 2 to 8).
None of these shots was staged, I just happened upon them!
Just got back from two weeks at the Outer Banks, North Carolina. Aaahhh...
Well, we actually arrived home on on Monday, but we've been busy since then. Unpacking, first day of first grade, unpacking, first day of preschool, unpacking... Still have a lot to unpack.
Finally got my pictures downloaded from my camera -- all 579 of them -- no, I'm not kidding. Gotta love digital!! Just snap away with wild abandon; I always do.
Herewith, my favorite beach shots:
Okay, now I grant you, these last two could have been better executed. But, considering that I didn't have a tripod (!), nor have I yet figured out how to do the manual-focus capability on my new camera, all in all I'm pretty happy with them. Anyway, for me, it just serves as a memory jogger for the real thing.
Kid pix to follow, over the next few days.
And then there was Thanksgiving. We went to the Big Lake, of course.
Here, a few different approaches to dealing with the winds in one's life:
(1) The sand moves with the wind, one grain at at time, doing the wind's bidding to create the most amazing natural sculptures.
(2) The grasses bend with the wind; bend, but spring back. Yielding, they stubbornly fail to yield. And over enough time, they hold down those dancing sand grains, and actively thwart the wind in its artistic endeavors.
(3) Once the grasses have stablized the land enough, the trees can take root. Mighty, stalwart white pines, their trunks do not yield to the wind's caresses, but their branches are contorted like gargoyles. Unyielding, yet they yield, their forms permanently shaped by the wind they pretend to defy.
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Which do you choose to be today?
