
I love fog. So when I biked the boards recently, I was pleased to see the pale veil over Long Beach shore. Hundreds of gulls nestled in the sand… …then rose, a […]
I love fog. So when I biked the boards recently, I was pleased to see the pale veil over Long Beach shore. Hundreds of gulls nestled in the sand… …then rose, a […]
The beach was vast and empty, but for the shorebirds. Both east and west of me, they gathered like tidal pools of fluttering feathers. It was a sparkling October day, about sixty, […]
Diving for protein, Wilson’s Storm Petrels*… …while a nearby gull eyed an ape’s bag of pretzels. One pulled from the surf a tasty prize… …then a decision formed behind yellow eyes: Tearing […]
She said, “People tell me ‘it must be terrible being alone,’ well it’s not terrible being alone, what’s terrible is people telling me, ‘it must be terrible being alone’.” I heard this […]
Not all Long Beach birds are airborne. Harley, a harlequin macaw parrot, is loveborne. Harley and his wingman, Mike Lee, come to the boardwalk often, weather permitting. Heat is a threat. In the […]
Twist like there’s no one watching. As I walk our Long Beach shore I sometimes see symmetry in the life before me, on the ground and floating above…a reciprocal poetry. Life expressing itself. […]
Please…stay a little longer. Some of you who have followed my previous post have seen that not all nesting Oystercatchers are successful in their breeding. A mysterious destruction of a nest to […]
“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 […]
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 […]
“If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.” Frederico Fellini What is our purpose here, on this globe? Is it to evolve, to change, in tiny incremental steps? If so, maybe […]
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