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At the bottom of the track from the cemetery to the beach, I crunch onto a mound of pebbles. I’m not bounding with energy today and the camera provides a good excuse to dawdle. The day is overcast and the light perfect. I bend down, scrutinising that crunch under my feet. I take portraits of individual shells and group portraits, using the pebbles as background, and I document the assemblages Mother Nature has created out of driftwood, cunjevoi, seaweed, desiccated sponges, leaves, rocks and shells.
Then I set off in pursuit of J, who is well out of sight around a couple of headlands in the bounding company of a large white dog with silky fur and an independent spirit. I rejoice in the power that has returned to his adductor muscle, in my easy recognition of chert, BIM and mylonite, even in the wave that catches me up to the calf as I edge my way round a rock.
By now the sky is lowering, and the tide is coming in so it’s time to head for the car. As we follow the line of the shell midden (featured in my last post) along the hillock of pebbles, the first raindrops begin to fall.
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Sue and I were commenting about your fabulous knowledge of words and wondered whether you would be interested in joining in with a fellow blogger who is running an A-Z in words series at the moment. You simply have to add up to three words that you like for each letter. It is just a bit of fun and Aussie words would also be welcomed 🙂
https://beetleypete.wordpress.com/2017/08/29/word-challenge-f/
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I’m in a state of serious digital detox. Don’t tempt me! I’ve got drafted posts coming out my ears, and a strict regime to cut back to an hour a day max.
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2 minutes max?? I have many posts still to be written, they will get done one day. With luck!
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NO!!! I can’t get involved anywhere else, although I did sneak a look, and it looks like fun. I see my blog as my journal, therefore I have to keep up. Thank you for seeing me as a woman of words.
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OK!! I’ll stop twisting your arm 😀 😀
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Such a fine gallery, Meg. The images are so sharp, I feel I could run my fingers over those pebbles and shells. I can certainly smell the sea-salty sand. The urge to pick up shells and pebbles never seems to leave us, does it. I think it may be an elemental human trait. It is how the African wise men and women populate the contents of their medicine baskets and gourds. And they are doubtless not the only ones 🙂
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I don’t seem to have found a beach with shells yet. I wonder where they are all hiding?
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I’m always fascinated by broken shells that show their interior architecture – You captured some good ones. And so much better to photograph them rather than take home the shells themselves. Removing them from their natural environment takes away some of their beauty.
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And clutters the house. My bathroom windowsill has a collection from long ago and needs a good dust! I liked this lot because they were naturally arranged and any arrangement I make looks forced.
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It’s good to be alive, isn’t it? Even if low in energy. 😦 Some of those shells looked like the skelteons had done battle. That’s a scary thought. I’m not good at macabre. I shall unthink that. 🙂 🙂 Yes, that’s much better! I shall rejoice in you instead.
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And in having converted me to galleries. Although I’ll have to crowdsource funding to upgrade when I run out of space! Collages are more economical.
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Guilty, as charged 🙂 🙂 You’re good at moving to new blogs though. Lots of practise 🙂
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But my followers complain about that too!
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Not I! 🙂 🙂 So long as your Gravatar works or you give me not very subtle hints where I can find you.
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I always love close up arrangements of pebbles and shells. These are fabulous. 🙂
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Thanks. It’s always a pleasure to find someone who doesn’t think I’m mad in my choice of photographic subject – as my children tend to!
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I like your studies of shells, pebbles, sponges etc. I had to look up Cunjevoi
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I am always having to look up words on Meg’s posts!!
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She is a good wordsmith, with quite a vast lexicon, methinks!
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Indeed. She ought to join in with Pete’s A-Z
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She did! But probably doesn’t know about it!
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Might give her a nudge.
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You do that….
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Done!
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Yay!
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