By the bay

Overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now.

                                                     ~ Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull

We took a couple of walks on the beach recently, my sister and I. Here are a few photos of the things we saw.

I. Indian Point

Roseate Spoonbills and a gull

Lightning whelk (Texas state shell)

Hermit crab inside, barnacles outside.

Razor clam

Oyster shells and barnacles

Beach evening primroses

Maybe a sea oxeye

Heron and us.

Gulls

Fish vertebra

Silver bells and cockle shells...

A father and son, finished for the day. The fish weren't biting.

I am betting some kind of crab lives here.

This one more freshly dug.

Prints: People, raccoon, hermit crab (?), and waves

Finally a lightning whelk where no one was home.

The sun was shining on the sea. ~ Lewis Carroll

We set this barnacle covered whelk aside to see if anyone was home. When we walked back to it, it was moving.

II. Near Cole Park - I know you have fed the seagulls there. I know you have watched the sun come up. Watch with us.

 III. Just outside of Portland, TX

Pelicans feeding

Every now and again something would startle the birds.

Some smaller birds were feeding with the pelicans.

Here we saw a small heron off to the left.