Long Beach, New York’s shore is alive with bliss, even more so for me these days. As autumn wanes toward winter, I see more clearly in my late solar laps. My focus […]
Whales, Shore Life—It’s All Good For Your Life
Life’s Little Things
Biking the boards and hoping for whales—I spotted a hat. I asked the young lady beneath it if I could photograph her hat, and she said, “Sure.” She was beautiful, and I […]
Peace or Pieces
“The total number of minds in the universe is one.” Erwin Schrodinger, Physicist and Nobel prize winner. The total number of Americans with an AR 15 is sixteen million, (None, I suspect, […]
Love Costs, But Love Gives
Long Beach lovers wait for it. It’s the annual joy when Oystercatcher chicks burst from their shells—and into our lives. These are some past photos I took of the chicks. Watching these […]
Early Spring, A Shot In The Arm
“In a way, winter is the real spring-time when inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.” Edna O’Brien, Irish Poet Winter, particularly this winter, can weigh one down—way down. Spring lightens our […]
Keeping a Sunny Day Sunny
Sunday was a sunny day, and should have stayed that way. But black tires raced across white sand, and the rescuer’s flashing lights were ominous so early in the morning, it was […]
The Perpetual Chase…of Life
Life, that’s what all we shore denizens seek to preserve. As I stroll our Long Beach sands and streets I observe, I learn, about life…about survival. Sandpipers Sandpipers chase into the bursting […]
Sucking It Up
The mechanical wonder that is taking place on and off our Long Beach shore is only matched by the natural wonder of our shorebirds dealing with it, some shore creatures coping better […]
Fuzzy Life, Clear Message
“My life is my message,” Mahatma Gandhi You may recall our Long Beach effort to protect our shore’s Oystercatcher nesting on mounds of unsifted sands: https://tinyurl.com/bdwkS-eyes But sadly, I visited the site […]
Optical Delusions
An oystercatcher nest was destroyed right “before my eyes.” As you’ve observed from previous posts we Long Beach residents love our oystercatchers. So when they set up their nests this year they […]
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