Moving Experiments, Leaving Monterey

My camera went kaput so I dug out its rickety predecessor with the taped-shut battery latch. That one was unusable, so cell phone camera it was, for my biggest trip in years, returning to my true home California, seeing old friends. Turns out the cell phone camera has a funny way of taking pictures while moving: creating lines and shapes. All so fun!

Milk Paint Adventure

While in Eastsound on Orcas Island, I found Smith & Speed Mercantile where they sold Milk Paint, a new and interesting water-based medium that I'd use again. I chose marigold, snow white, and soldier blue. 

Maybe Smith or Speed said it was a kind of old fashioned paint that would work on outdoor chairs, to weather with more color. We're talking weather: sea gales and driving rain on occasion or steeped in sun.

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Gnome Trail Advisory on Plastics

Trendsetter Franklin Gehrgnome designed the new neighbors' abode on the Gnome Trail to the Beach. He recanted his use of plastic for the guest house in the latest issue of Gnome Home after locals stormed the ribbon cutting, chanting "plastic is deadly to fish and birds!" The plastic guest house mysteriously disappeared soon after the event. Gnomes hope that it did not slide into the creek and out to sea. The gnomes living in these woods have long had a special affinity for using all natural materials and zero waste. Caucuses are taking place now to amend the Gnome Code to ban all plastics at the beach. Up to now, there was no need for a law. But times have changed, and gnomes are resilient. These are green gnomes caring for their neighboring Sea, the greal Blue. Travelers on the Gnome Trail are advised to please be creative using only material from the forest and compostables to create marvelous abodes for the Seabrook gnomes. 

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Gardening: A Transformative Art

Take thy plastic spade,

It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,

They are thy colours.

William Mason, The English Garden (1782)

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Now that's a beach retreat.

Have a breakfast picnic on the beach, two mornings in a row!  Let the weather tell you how to change up the ole daily routine. When it's shirt sleeves in April on the Washington Coast, you gotta take your time, stay out and walk all the way to Pacific Beach! When the geese are migrating northbound, it's just right to stop in your tracks, listen to their navigators honking their instructions, and watch their adapting to the air currents with their intricate formations. That's gotta be hard work, flying from Mexico to Canada. When great flocks of sandpipers are foraging at the waterline, busier than you need to be all day, just slow down and pay attention to the rhythms of nature. That's what it's all about.

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Pictured: Brachts in March.

Walking Meditation at the Beach

Morning writing produced the imperative to walk to Pacific Beach one day. Saturday afternoon, these kites were invisible in the distance. Seabrook to Pacific Beach is a one mile walk on the beach. This day, glimmering ocean waves and flocking birds posed. Transient red, green and pink purple melted into the horizon. Then, magnificent kites emerged in their entirety. On foot, I sank into deep sand soufflé where Joe Creek meets the Ocean. Not a cloud in the sky, this day in February 2015. It was a luscious day.

There's no place like home. 

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