It’s winter, not the high season for northern beaches But the winter beach is beautiful and interesting. The slope is steeper, the colors are different. The sharp wind wakes you up. The high tides (King Tides, these days), crashing waves, and steady breezes of winter move more than grains of sand and your whipping hair [...]
Tag Archives: Environment
Invasion of the King Tide
Headlines today coupled the intriguing phrase “King Tide” with Puget Sound. Having lived on the shore of the Sound my entire life, I thought I knew most of the terminology about this particular marine environment. But I’d never heard of a king tide. Perhaps it was a misprint – could be the writer meant spring [...]
Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi – No Spoilers in this Un-Review
Lately my reading has listed heavily toward young adult fiction. Never mind why. All you need to know is that the latest representative of this genre to sail through here was Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi. The moment I heard that title – over the phone, from my daughter – I knew what the story [...]
Cox Conserves knows how to pick a Hero
Jan Holmes, one of my cohorts on the Eelgrass Videography project, has been nominated for a Cox Conserves Heroes award. I wrote about Jan’s indefatigable quest for data back in late December of 2009 when she dragged her husband Steve and I out on the mudflats in the middle of the night to collect eelgrass [...]
