Moving Aboard: The selling stuff project runs up against a pig
The process of moving aboard is exciting, and hard. Following the lead of Adam Baker of Man vs. Debt, we’re selling our stuff and doing what we love. Our job is tougher in...
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Water Photo of the Week: Queen Anne’s Lace and Breaking Waves
Saw this thicket of Queen Anne’s Lace while driving. The white umbrel heads looked so beautiful bobbing in the breeze, while behind them the white waves broke on the shore that I...
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Help Japan by James White: a visual haiku
Prints of this beautiful, arresting image were available from SignalNoise but quickly sold out. Perhaps there will be more. More people want to help. More people want this simple reminder. There’s another red...
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New and improved Tidal Life: Now, with Octopi
Ditching the nautilus lamp idea … I found the perfect light to hang above the bronze octopus table that everyone knows I want for my birthday later this month. This was featured on...
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Parting the waters to talk smash
Short Story Smash Contest Sunday afternoon, April 10, at WICA A Whidbey Island Center for the Arts sponsored event: Part of the Fast and Furious, Down and Dirty Series. If it weren’t for...
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#Snorca By Rob Schouten
Rob Schouten is best known on Whidbey Island, and around the world, as a visionary water colorist. Oblation is my favorite Rob image. Another is his Buddha of Compassion, an intricate work commissioned...
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Do-it-yourself enlightenment, in one easy step
Why did the frog swallow the light bulb? To achieve enlightenment of course. Just one of the amazing photographs from National Wildlife's photography contest.
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One for the books, and maybe a nautilus shaped lamp – a bronze octopus table
I love this bronze octopus table I found on The Steampunk Home. Love the rest of the site too, though most of it isn’t salty enough to qualify for mention here. Looking at...
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Photo contest (and calendar publication) for seagrass lovers
I’m feverishly going through my shots of eelgrass in Holmes Harbor because a Seagrass Photo Competition is being held in conjunction with the World Seagrass Conference in Thailand this November. And though I’d...
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Two new films with tidal significance
In my inbox today I found news about two movies that fit within the parameters of Tidal Life. Flood Tide is entirely new to me butintrigued me from the beginning shot of the...
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