Ocean art

  

 Early morning sand patterns in the swash zone, 6 May 2026

  

Happy Earth Day!

  

Happy Earth Day!

Most of our recent photos our from Hawai'i, so here's one from the north shore of O'ahu to help celebrate our amazing planet.

Beach tones

  

Eric gathered these little beach stones from the outer beach at Point Reyes so we could document the range of colors.  Each stone is quite small — only 2-3 mm in length, so right on the edge between sand and gravel.

Can you tell that they're resting in a crease in my jeans?  I couldn't decide which view was most interesting, so here are a couple more images, going back in time when we first started the mini-collection:

 

 

 

 

 

 

And here's one more, with a small sand dollar and the surrounding gravel.  The large grain sizes indicate a very high wave energy beach!

 

 

Winter scenes

Winter scenes from the last few days in New England...

Salt marsh in Duxbury:

 

Snow Bunting habitat:

 

 

Frozen ripples in a stream:

 

 

 Icy sea dragon?  :)

 

Happy holidays, everyone!