Ten days later
Jun. 11th, 2024 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
offcntrWe finally got to celebrate our anniversary!
The actual day fell on a Saturday Market, the next day was kiln loading, then there was firing and jury duty and Market again, and Denise led a book arts workshop on Sunday and holy cats, if we hadn't grabbed a day off with both hands, it wouldn't have happened at all. As is, I was up until 11 o'clock Monday night recycling clay that wouldn't keep until Friday.
But we packed up some snacks and bears and headed out for the coast, just for a day. Visited our favorite beach, just north of Florence, catching precisely the lowest tide we've ever seen, perfect for tide pooling. Drove back to Florence for lunch at Mo's, visited a local co-op gallery and picked up a little art, even swung by the local Farmers Market and bought some strawberries and a chocolate croissant.
It wasn't a perfect day--what started out as sunny and clear in Eugene turned out overcast, with occasional spitting mist on the coast, and Mo's never properly salts their fish-n-chips--but still pretty darn good, and we talked to some lovely people from SoCal and Cincinnati on the beach. Even discovered some work by an old grad-school friend in the gallery. Good times.
Thought I'd found a couple of whelks, but in fact they were both hermit crabs. Though I see a couple of limpets in the photo that I missed in real life.
The stars of the show!
You know what they say: Keep your friends close and your anemones closer.
...and sometimes, ya just gotta stop and look at cool things in the sand.
All in all, a day to celebrate.
The actual day fell on a Saturday Market, the next day was kiln loading, then there was firing and jury duty and Market again, and Denise led a book arts workshop on Sunday and holy cats, if we hadn't grabbed a day off with both hands, it wouldn't have happened at all. As is, I was up until 11 o'clock Monday night recycling clay that wouldn't keep until Friday.
But we packed up some snacks and bears and headed out for the coast, just for a day. Visited our favorite beach, just north of Florence, catching precisely the lowest tide we've ever seen, perfect for tide pooling. Drove back to Florence for lunch at Mo's, visited a local co-op gallery and picked up a little art, even swung by the local Farmers Market and bought some strawberries and a chocolate croissant.
It wasn't a perfect day--what started out as sunny and clear in Eugene turned out overcast, with occasional spitting mist on the coast, and Mo's never properly salts their fish-n-chips--but still pretty darn good, and we talked to some lovely people from SoCal and Cincinnati on the beach. Even discovered some work by an old grad-school friend in the gallery. Good times.
Thought I'd found a couple of whelks, but in fact they were both hermit crabs. Though I see a couple of limpets in the photo that I missed in real life.
The stars of the show!
You know what they say: Keep your friends close and your anemones closer.
...and sometimes, ya just gotta stop and look at cool things in the sand.
All in all, a day to celebrate.
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Date: 2024-06-12 11:37 pm (UTC)also, a little cloud cover can be good for beach days if you want to see (& photograph) animals since there's less glare...