
‘Swimmers’

‘Swimmers’

‘Flutter’

‘Pacific Ocean Blue’
Having just returned home from a week at the beach, I thought I would share a view of the Pacific Ocean from that place.
Simply gorgeous, and with a feeling of infinity, the blues of sea and sky stretching away from the sandy shore.
As the title of this post is the same as the 1977 solo album masterpiece from Beach Boy Dennis Wilson, I thought you may as well also have a suitably summery song from the album, ‘You and I‘, (courtesy of YouTube).
Link below, enjoy and drift away!

‘Where You Aren’t Anymore’
…just holes where you used to be…

‘Aquamarine II’
…‘neath sun-dappled surface, sunken treasure lies…

‘Aquamarine’

‘Rockisphere’

‘Floral Terraces’
…an ascension of blooms…

‘Painted Past II’

‘Painted Past’

‘Beach Hut’
…shelter in the sand…

‘In The Kitchen’
Late afternoon sun streams through net curtains and on to the black and white checkered vinyl tiles of this kitchen.
It’s a rudimentary kitchen, for sure, but one with great memories as it is in an old place we have spent over 20 years holidaying at in summer.
Even the also rudimentary meals cooked there from whatever is at hand have been memorable. Board games have played out on the very basic formica topped table after dinner.
Kitchens can be utilitarian places, but they can be at the heart of our memories too.

‘Because It Just Is’
…no explanation needed, no reason given, and that’s perfectly okay…

‘Nothing But Good Wishes’
…that’s what I have for you…

‘Boy & Dolphin’
Statue in Opononi, of Opo the dolphin, and a nameless child.
(Opo was a New Zealand version of Flipper – a super friendly dolphin who played with humans in the mid-1950s in the waters of the small Northland town,and became a local legend).

‘Black-backed Gull’

‘Column (Bastion Point)’

‘Obelisk (One Tree Hill)’

‘The Tide Is Rising’
Tides are king at Ebb Then Flood (if you haven’t noticed!) but this marker pole at Auckland’s Okahu Bay gives a sobering indication of past, current, and future mean average tides at that locale.
The tide is rising, and not in a twice daily, good way…

‘Steps Down To The Sea II’
…soon to be immersed…