A young boy, maybe 11 years old, coasts his bike down the hill towards us. He makes eye contact and grins. I grin back. No words are necessary. It is the first week of summer holidays. The evening is warm and the sun is coming down between trees with bugs dancing in its soft rays.
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With the tide being low, I am able to get closer to where the seals sunbathe in Oyster Bay. I can’t help thinking how their shapes on the rocks mirror the jaggedness of coastal mountains across the water. How many years of July days have seals rested on these rocks?
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We walk on and coming to Reef Bay. Carefully I meander out onto the sandstone. Tall grasses are trapped in a golden glow in front of the beach house.
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But it is the waves that are calling me. Sitting on the warm sandstone, I study them. I listen. I feel. I smell. I see. I engage with their presence….
wave one
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wave two
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wave three
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and wave four
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I hope you have enjoyed your summer evening walk with me here on Mayne Island… swisssshhhhh!
Sprout Question: Are you taking your creativity for a summer holiday?
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Now that is what I want to be doing! Instead I am sitting in my car blogging!! Lunchtime here, fish sandwich!!
I am taking a long lunch! – am working 615 am to 5pm today…someone scheduled a meeting at 4pm. – am usually long gone home by then.
Thanks for bringing me along,especially to see the waves and the seals.
Kim
Kim so glad you got to come along on your lunch break… and I am glad it is a long lunch break:)
Great shots! Thanks for posting!
You are welcome photographyfree4all and welcome to Creative Potager.
Thank you for sharing your summer creative walk with all of us blogger.
Wonderful photographs! I have already visited your http//:www.redbubble.com/people/terrillwelch where everyone can view the wonderful wave photos in full glory.
My creativity is my holiday!
I am Love, Jeff
You are welcome Jeff and thank you so much for your awesome sprout response… has me giggling because it is so like that sometimes. Yes I see Jeff, redbubble is up again so I will put a link in for each photograph now. By the way, I am super enjoying your new profile photographs… so full of energy, connection and dare I say it – mischief:)
Terrill – I wonder if the young boy on the bicycle was grinning at your inner child because that’s who he saw, and you grinned back because that’s what you felt?
I love how you caught the luminescent “curl” in wave number one.
Sprout Question: Are you taking your creativity for a summer holiday?
I took it for a bicycle ride yesterday: http://holessence.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/butt-weary/
That could be Laurie my inner child mostly is an outer child and always up to something! And what a ride you had… I have been over for a quick browse but need to come back for a chat.
Dear readers, it is really the next visit you should take on your summer holidays… follow Laurie’s link and go for a bike ride with Laurie and Len through the countryside.
Terrill – I vividly remember a funny picture of you on the old Gaia platform where you crossed your eyes and stuck out your tongue — every time I looked at it I cracked up! You have a wonderful inner/outer child!
Thank you for pointing to Speaking from the Heart.
You’re welcome Laurie. I will have to find that photo sometime and surprise Creative Potager readers. he, he, he…
Lovely summer walk, Ms. Terrill! That first shot with the blue road is awesome. Love that color.
Your story brought me right back to that carefree feeling of childhood. That sense of freedom and endless days. But, strangely enough, after thinking about it–I don’t think I’ve lost that carefree feeling. Because of two part time jobs that let me choose my hours, I’m still feeling pretty free. Maybe even freer than childhood…
Thank you so much for your beautiful blog and photos.
Yeah Kathy there are some parts of childhood that should stay with us forever… like summer evenings and that carefree feeling. Your welcome regarding the post. It was my pleasure.
Dear readers, I have the photograph of the seals as my background on my laptop right now. I find it an unusually calming image. You have my permission to “borrow it” for that purpose. Give it a try and see how it works for you. I would love to hear about your experience.
wonderful shot terrill..
i adore the first photo and the 3rd when the sunlight peeks from the trees.. what a wonderful picture..
and ur summerhollyday seems fun, i envy u terrill.. i can’t take holiday.. i’m too sick of the job and annoy people here..
have a great day for u dear..
Wulan you are just going to have to come by over the summer for wee Creative Potager vacations… all work and no play makes for a very unhappy wulan. Good to see you here:) Glad you enjoyed the photos.
Hi Terrill
a simple smile and wonderful pictures truly a lovely post my friend
peace and light from a rusty tin can
Thanks Andy and how are the highlands of Scotland this summer? Or do you have the black bus on the road?
Hi my friend aye the highlands are stunning even though we are being hit with gales (which i enjoy) the old bus is semi permanent but i wander of in the old horsebox to get my films and pictutres
love and peace from me and mel
Good to hear Andy… always is nice to be exactly where one once to be… and a gale or two in the mix keeps things fresh. We are finally getting summer here on Mayne Island… just in time for my daughters wedding which will be on “the big island” Vancouver Island in Mill Bay.
Dear readers, I have a busy few days ahead of me with “the wedding” but I think I have it figure it all out. I am contemplating doing two pre-scheduled posts for you next week where you can view and comment amongst yourselves. Some of you regular readers, I am sure, will be comfortable chatting between yourselves while I am off celebrating. What do you think? Does it sound like a good idea?
My creativity is my summer holiday! Always and forever, making me feel like I’m on vacation. Even for a few minutes in the day.
Kat thank you for you awesome sprout response… I hope in that case you are getting lots of vacation time;)
“What do you think? Does it sound like a good idea?”
I think it’s a great idea!
Good to hear Laurie…
so no one is to be surprised when I do not come and play until the following week.
Terrill,
We got you covered! and look forward to your return with stories and photo’s from “the wedding”!
Thanks Jeff – that is awesome! And I will do my best to uphold my end of the bargain with stories and photos.
We still have tomorrow’s post thought that I will be around for – sort of… between tasks shall we say:)
Congrtulations to your daughter my friend
love and peace from Scotland
Thanks Andy… we are planning a grand time.