Thalassophile: noun, lover of the sea or ocean.
Pacific Ocean, Lincoln City, Oregon May 2018
Archive for ‘Observations’
La Luna
Speaking of the moon reminded me of La Luna, a Pixar short from 2011. I love this sweet story and I think you’ll enjoy it, too.
Wordnesday
Moonwake: noun, when the moon’s reflection on the water seems to follow you as you walk.
Wispy Moon, Tucson, Arizona 2011
Afternoon in Newport
The middle of the month I headed down to Newport to check out the visiting tall ships. Both the Hawaiian Chieftain and the Lady Washington were in port for a short stay. As an admitted Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl fan I just had to tour the HMS Interceptor (Lady Washington’s screen name).
Biggest takeaway? Even though she is a full-scale replica of an actual brig with the same name (one that, incidentally, opened the black pearl trade with Asia), she’s small!
Other sights from the bay: the Never Again #9, sorting bins for Dungeness Crab, extra-long Sea Lion whiskers, rope flotsam, rocks at low tide, green waves.
Wordnesday
Since it still insists on acting like winter in some parts of the country…
Apricity: noun. The warmth of the sun in winter.
Beach, Lincoln City, Oregon 02-2018
Wordnesday
Frondesce: verb. The unfurling of leaves. As in, the fern was frondescing.
Furled fern frond, Lincoln City, Oregon 2018
End of an Era
Heart-wrenching day. Earlier, I said goodbye to my sweet, wise, and loving cat, Bailey. After 18 years together, his little body just gave out on him. He was such a character! Even though physically small, he ruled the household (keeping three successive cats in line). He behaved more like a dog; would fetch, play in water, alert me to dangers such as scorpions or snakes, loved to cuddle, and had an uncanny ability to sense my mood. Every night I was home he slept curled up by my right shoulder; kneading my hair, his purr a calming lullaby. I miss you, little dude…
Loved to be Outside
Teaching Wylie a Lesson
Showing Me a Snake
Navigating in the RV
Allowing Rookie to Cuddle
Bailey and Sylvester
Baby Bailey, 2000
Partial Sun Halo
Sunny, But Still…
The sun shone all day but it was only able to warm us up to 50 degrees which, coincidentally, is the average temperature of our section of the Pacific Ocean this time of year. A brisk 12mph wind meant that the air temperature felt more like 45 degrees, according to NOAA’s nifty Wind Chill Calculator. All that information so that you can fully appreciate the following scene:
Location, Location, Location
Two west-facing houses across the street from the ocean with two vastly different viewpoints…
3rin's View... 