O is for Ocean

Oh my, I haven't been to the ocean since these photos were taken in December. But I'd rather reminisce with scenes from that sunny day on Conrad's Beach instead of venturing out to the coast to freeze...... speaking of beaches.......Caitlyn Purcell is having a show at the Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design March 4th -31st with her new jewellery line Beachcomber !

O is for Ocean

These wonderful photos by Valerie Salez were taken the evening I went for my first ocean swim of 2010(Sept 6th I think). The ocean was warmer than any memories I've had of it, and though the pictures make the water look calm, the waves were pretty powerful. After an hour of jumping around like a fool I was very tired and refreshed.

I was lucky to go to the ocean two more times that week and then bam! tropical storm and no more tropical water!

O is for Ocean

Dirty Projectors and Bjork have joined in the making of Mount Wittenberg Orca, a collection of songs inspired by a family of whales. Bjork and the girls from Dirty Projectors actually sing whale parts! All the money from the sales of the album (only available via download) go towards creating international protected marine areas, a drastically underrepresented cause to keep our oceans alive.

All this talk about whales reminds me of one of my favorite film growing up :

O is for Ocean

My folks came for a visit and we all went to Crystal Crescent beach for a nice walk along the rocks. It was really great and instead of coming across an old naked man doing something disturbing (scarred experience from the last time I took my folks to CC) we came across a cute porcupine ...thank you Mother Nature!

O is for Ocean , P is for Poem

OUT of the rolling ocean the crowd came a drop gently to me,
Whispering I love you, before long I die,
I have travel'd a long way merely to look on you to touch you,
For I could not die till I once look'd on you,
For I fear'd I might afterward lose you.

Verse 1 from Nicholas Hughes Edge

Verse 1 from Walt Whitman's Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd

O is for Ocean

I wanted to go to the ocean on 'O is for Ocean' days , but we're snowed in! So this is from Christmas on PEI.