Showing posts with label Crescent Beach. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crescent Beach. Show all posts

Thursday, 5 September 2024

Calming Contemplation At Crescent Beach


Contemplation is the eyes of the soul and the highest form of happiness some say. Pondering life and our place within it happens everywhere but is uniquely common at the rocky log-strewn Crescent Beach shore. Until a train whistle blasts past the morning mist, it's where walkers go for a moment of bliss.

(Photo, Jan. 2019, Crescent Beach)

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Monday, 21 January 2019

Drifting Into View

The billowing cloud-surfer drifted into view on a windy wintry day. It swooped and swirled like a vibrant giant wing giving colour to the sky and a bumpy ride to the sea-surfer below who was tethered to its strings.

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Wednesday, 2 January 2019

Brrr ... Braving Winter's Chilly Waters

"Come on in. The water's freezzzzng cold!" the first to run in seemed to say. It was no sooner in than out at the New Year's polar bear swim at Crescent Beach.

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Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Merry Message From An Angel

Unspoken Christmas wish linked to Wordless Wednesday and Signs, Signs.

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Thursday, 18 October 2018

Horsefaces

THE HORSEFACES I see during my walks are far too cute to be ignored. The first (pictured above) decorates a fence. It's one of many seahorse images scattered throughout Crescent Beach. You can see more HERE.


The second is an elaborate Halloween display of the Headless Horseman at the entrance to Ethical Addiction Apparel in Ocean Park, a store that sells clothing made from bamboo organic cotton with an aim at respecting the environment.

I wished for an apple to give this third sighting that pranced prettily into view.

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Monday, 2 July 2018

Butterfly For A Day

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” - Carl Sagan


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Sunday, 1 July 2018

Gateway To A Good Life In Canada

APPRECIATING diversity, respecting the environment, providing health care for all are just some of what most hold dear and imagine will be improved upon in Canada celebrating self-governance from Great Britain since July 1, 1867.

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Thursday, 14 June 2018

Two Drifters Meet Beneath Brooding Skies

Brooding clouds filled the sky like billowy curtains over a beach star. The driftwood configuration stood upright centre stage on the shore at Crescent Beach amid more common logs haphazardly strewn along the sandy floor.

A "head", scorched perhaps from having once been in a camp fire, somehow became attached to the body of the upright piece. Over time, through shifting skies and changing tides, the two random travelers drifted to each other to become one artistic piece of extraordinary stature from every angle.


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Thursday, 7 June 2018

Cotton Candy Cloud

CLOUDS blown by the breeze usually float together but sometimes one rises above the rest. Not pink or blue like candyfloss, the top cloud still managed to look sugary sweet suspended over Crescent Beach. Did it taste like rain? Probably not. The cumulus cloud, meaning "heap" in Latin, of liquid, gas and solids was a lofty mix unlikely to produce rain. Dark and dreary versus light and cheery is my best go-to unscientific guess for any rain-test. This mass of fluff looked so weightless that if I had strings I'd pull it down and take it with me.

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Monday, 28 May 2018

The Lady Is A Bug

Plunk ... something landed near my face, a small roundish dark blotch to mar the view through what I soon discovered were my remarkably grimy sunglasses.

It could have been a he but I felt it was a she. The ladybug stuck to the glasses even when I took them off and continued my walk, holding them in one hand and taking pictures with the other. Not camera shy, she seemed to enjoy the ride.

The ladybug made lovely reflections on the glassy surface. Even with my untrained eye, I knew she was one of a kind and no other ladybug anywhere had her exact markings because nature's creativity is boundless that way.

She briefly investigated my finger.

She crept along the rim from one lens to another ...

peeking over the edges.

Perhaps she was snacking on something microscopic in the lint and grime.

It was a smorgasborg of goodies no doubt, a grand feast for a hungry bug.

I wondered about her wings since she wasn't eager to fly away.

This bug preferred to walk for now. Her wings were folded neatly unseen beneath each half of her dotted outer shell.

She did a little vacuuming along the way and also took time to smell the flowers.

When I veered off the path towards my car she knew it was time to say goodbye. She jumped onto my sweater and looked at me intently with utmost courtesy I thought, although I couldn't read the expression in her eyes.

As soon as we parted, I got to work cleaning my sunglasses. The camera showed what the ladybug was too polite to tell me but, needless to say, her message came through in a very clear way.

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