A Look at Some Blizzard Damage and a Couple of Recipes
Some of Us Love Snow I’ve always loved snow. Growing up in the Seattle area, where most years an inch of snow was a lot, I never got enough of it. Becoming an...
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Water Photo of the Week: The Colors of a Weathered Dock
Algae, lichen and rust color the soft gray boards of a weathered dock.
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Marooned Sailor’s Lament
The following is a guest post. The author is my past self. In many ways this essay was the first Tidal Life post, though years passed between writing it and beginning to publish...
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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...
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Tough day today
Whew, so many challenges. This morning I’m looking through, sorting and formatting all the photos I took yesterday, playing paparazzi aboard the Indigo. A big thank you to my many captive subjects, and...
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There is good news too, but some of it’s pretty muddy
Actually there’s probably more good than bad news in the world, but as we all know, the good news doesn’t capturing our attention in quite the same way. Taking advantage of the very...
Read More →And now, a little more about clams
In the spirit of Marie Antoinette, this year I let Dad dig his own while I watched from above. Not really, after a few minutes the guilt got to me and I joined...
Read More →It’s inventory time
Once each year, volunteers deploy onto thirty-five Island County beaches for the annual Intertidal Monitoring. Yesterday was the day for the beach I help on. The monitoring program is 14 years old. It...
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