photography

On February 3 it was 22 degrees F, sunny and dead low tide. I went down to my favorite beach for collecting trash, only to find the gate locked! The gate is tucked in by a store between a lot…

I’m one-half of an old married couple with two teenagers, so we’ve got pretty flexible ideas about what constitutes a good Valentine celebration. We agreed that cards and chocolate are kind of boring after all these years, but the romantic…

Sometimes I just can’t stop playing. I started to clean up after arranging that obsessive central heart, but the next thing I knew I’d spent a couple more hours working with the rest of my white shell stash.

I think these are Common Dove Snails (Columbella mercatoria).

Shark Tooth Valentine (available in my etsy shop) I’ve made three valentines this year. This is the first one. I started out trying to make a heart out of sea urchins, because I liked the christmas tree I made with…

Hulls Cove, Maine; January 2, 2012  (Beachcombing series No.59) It was the last day of winter vacation, and I had just dropped my daughter off at her friend’s house for the afternoon. On the way home, I stopped at Hulls…