Scenes from the Beach | July 10, 2016
We take pleasure in seeking nature's grand displays — glorious sunrises, mighty waves rushing ashore, lightning bolts illuminating night skies, flights of rarely seen birds. But there is also joy in small, seemingly insignificant things, like the fragment of a seashell that I hold this morning or driftwood that was found nearby. At water's edge, there is a sleek laughing gull, the most plentiful of all our shorebirds. So it is that we find simple beauty in the most commonplace objects.
Diary, summer 2016
From the diary of beach walker George Thatcher,
email: fishcrow@aol.com. Collections of Mr. Thatcher’s observations are available from Quail Ridge Press, www.quailridge.com or 800-343-1583.
This story was originally published July 6, 2016 at 4:52 PM with the headline "Scenes from the Beach | July 10, 2016."