June Solstice Magic

Drove to Ocean Shores to pursue a vision for the garden: a new chair and new planting. I reset the majority of these stepping stones and planted the new red tickseed, purple salvia, and chive. Then the tiny hummingbirds visited! www.daydreamcottage.us

Springtime Pink Time

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It was winter 2015: intermittent deluges. No one was on the beach but me and someone intrepidly taking photos who seemed to walk right through the churning, flowing water at Elk Creek. I took copious photos of the photog with camera stand and two stately dogs. Posted one to FB. Quickly learned that it was Teri Pieper! She and I met years ago in Winthrop, WA. She was at Winthrop Gallery exhibiting photos she had taken at the very same beach. Then, she hospitably asked me to join a dinner party at the Old Schoolhouse Brewery with her and the locals. It was a hot summer, and we sat out on the deck that hangs over the Chewuch River listening to live bands. It was the same Methow Valley trip where I acquired Henri, the glass bird who lives on the deck at Daydream Cottage. What a fond memory. Teri loves The Sandpiper and clamming. This winter she was staying at The Sandpiper. I was at Daydream Cottage. Weather warnings and fact that my time at the beach was up prevented us from getting together. Here is Teri's blog: myeverydayphotos.wordpress.com. Turns out her beach photog suit is waterproof. Her pants are waders.

A Photographer and Her Dogs

You know, Henri.

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Winter Sunset Surprise

A little one-on-one time with Mother Nature helps me get my priorities straight. ~me

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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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