Janie on one of our walks.

Backhoe tracks, Ponte Vedra Beach

As I took my morning walk on the beach, I followed the track of a backhoe as the tide came in. Amazing how many different stages of erosion there were.

Crab music, Ponte Vedra Beach

A fairly long explanation and a call for help from a music reader. Years ago I went to see Emmet Gowin give a talk about Frederick Sommer. Sommer was a wonderful artist who made incredible photographs, painted and generally experimented with any medium he could. A friend showed him the score of a symphony and he was taken by the beauty of the notes and lines. Thus inspired, he either drew or painted some fairly abstract scores (he had no knowledge of writing music). Another friend, a musician, decided to play the art and it, apparently, sounded like music. I am wildly paraphrasing here. This is all from a lecture from 40 years ago. Anyway, a few years later we went to a Sommer exhibit at a museum and met the man. He was in his eighties, vital, active and interested in everything he saw or heard. A real treat.

Anyway, I have always loved sand patterns and these crab tracks reminded me of music, then Sommer, then the story. I look at them and imagine the music would be very crablike, scurrying and percussive. Maybe a musician out there could see what it would sound like.

Last sunrise before Daylight Savings Time ended

Water flower, P V Beach

From a rain runoff hole.

Corner, Jax Beach

Beached boat, PVB

This boat washed up about a month ago and has slowly been stripped of all useful gear. It must have been almost a derelict before it foundered and now rests here, a very heavy impediment. The owner doesn't seem to want it and the state wants it gone. Maybe the big Nor'easter we are having will resolve it.

Fence and sand, P V Beach

Friends, another DxO filter

These two were sitting on the beach, lost in conversation, as I started my walk. When I did the file I used the Velvia filter in DxO. Good old Fuji jump off the page color.

Dune walkover, Jax Beach

Ever since the beach communities have put these in and banned walking on the dunes the dune grasses have built themselves up and don't erode nearly as quickly during storms.

Variegated agave, Jax Beach

Beach colors, Jax Beach

Piling, P V Beach

It is now April 2nd and I am experiencing my annual "blahs" or photographer's block or creative miasma. I don't know if it's my wanting to get my garden going or the sudden wonderful weather, but I stop seeing photographs. My suspicion is that as the sun climbs higher in the sky, the light get less of that slanted, dramatic look. Combine that with rising humidity, which takes some contrast out of the light, and I go out with the camera and see no pictures. I always adjust and enjoy the warm rich light of Spring and Summer, but it takes a while.

Zen garden 2, P.V.Beach

Belligerent crab, PV Beach

This little guy was no bigger than my toe, but did not want me to pass. I went around.

Bottle and feathers, PVB

 These were taken on the same walk as the footprints below. There are days and there are days when one sees.

Chair and bricks (detail) PVIC

Umbrella and shadows, PVIC

Two chairs, PVIC

They looked happy together.

Sea grass. PVB