"The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it..."
-C. Paolini, Eragon.
(Discovery Passage. With views of Quadra island and the coast mountains, Campbell River, B.C.)
"Hark, now hear the sailors cry, smell the sea, and feel the sky, Let your soul and spirit fly into the mystic...." -
- Into the Mystic”― Van Morrison, Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics
"Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part..."
― Hermann Broch
“All shadows of clouds the sun cannot hide
like the moon cannot stop oceanic tide;but a hidden star can still be smiling at night's black spell on darkness, beguiling”― Munia Khan
"I was happy anywhere I could see the ocean...." ― Ai Yazawa, Nana, Vol. 18
“I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.”― J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
"There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea...."
― Khalil Gibran
“And the ocean, calling out to us both. A song of freedom and longing.”― Alexandra Christo, To Kill a Kingdom
Photographs 2020 Willowpoint viewpoint. Campbell River. Discovery Passage. Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands, B.C. North of the Georgia Strait. Named after Captain Vancouver's ship HMS Discovery. It is 25 km (16 mi) in length
A LIGHT EXISTS in SPRING (Emily Dickinson) (written in 1896)
A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year
At any other period
When March is scarcely here
A colour stands abroad on solitary fields
That Science cannot overtake but Human Nature feels
It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest tree
Upon the furthest Slope you know
It almost speaks to you.
Than as Horizons step or Noons report away
Without the Formula of sound It passes and we stay
A quality of loss
Affecting our Content
As Trade had suddenly encroached Upon a Sacrament.....
Photographs 2020
"She decided to free herself, dance into the wind,create a new language. And the birds fluttered around her,writing "yes" in the sky...." - Monique Duval
Seasons are changing. The birds have started gathering again . A Flicker and his mate with rose coloured cap...
Stellar Jays eating peanuts like they're going out of style
The beautiful female Flicker. I have never seen her before.
And the male. Stuffing himself with suet without sharing any with her!
"In order to see birds it is necessary to become part of the silence..." -Robert Lynd
The orange flushed Varied Thrush. Looks like a chubby robin.
The eagle on the power poles.
"When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere...." -Amit Ray
And the Thrush.............
Warbles...
Purple Finch.
And the Flicker shoves in as much suet as possible
While the female waits her turn.
Eventually she kicked him out.
"Somewhere a bird sang. Its chant hanging plaintive and melancholy in the air..." -Jane Johnson
And off they flew. Into the dusk.
While the Jays splashed in the bath....
Ate some seeds and wondered where all the peanuts had gone. Were more coming?
"Birds are the eyes of heaven....." -
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Towehee
Photographs 2020
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Towehee
Spencer