Blue & White Beach China, April 2011. Prints available in my etsy shop. In the 14 years I’ve lived on this island, I’ve picked up a lot of china on the beach. These are some of my favorite pieces of…
Harborview Park, March 15, 2011 (Beachcombing series No.29) available to purchase here. (I wrote this right after I got back from beachcombing, but once again it has taken ages to compose and take the photograph, so the weather details are…
The sun finally came out and the thermometer climbed over thirty degrees, but my kids flatly refused to leave the house. I left them behind and went beachcombing on my own, feeling only the tiniest smidgen of mother-guilt. Sometimes I…
Fork, Knife, Spoon (Treasure beach, February 20, 2011) The sun came out for a while and the tide was high but ebbing, so I headed down to my favorite collecting beach. By the time I got there it was overcast…
I had to go to the farm store in the center of the island to pick up rabbit food, so I figured I might as well stop by Clark Cove and see how it was passing the winter. Turns out…
Seal Harbor, February 14, 2011 The day I found the hundreds of sand dollars I also found some other interesting things, but I was so excited about the sand dollars I forgot to post this image!
Sand Dollars, Seal Harbor Beach, February 14, 2011 …at least from the beachcomber’s point of view. The echinoderms might not agree. It was a cloudy grey but relatively warm day in February, probably in the 40s. There was just enough…
Green & Brown, The Bar, February 11, 2011 When I got back from beachcombing last Friday I sat down and wrote this right away (but it took me until now to edit all the photos and post it!): I’ve had…
The nice soft powdery snow I fell into on my last visit here has hardened and iced over, so I bypassed the direct scramble down the rocky bluff and took a more roundabout path to the beach. Even at the…
Plastic, Hulls Cove, January 29, 2011 Bits of plastic and other trash from the Hulls Cove Beach. Sorry, sea glass lovers, the red and orange are plastic bits. Ever since I read about the huge garbage patches trapped in the…
