Compare and contrast . . .

Both of these fishing boats were photographed along the docks in Newport, Oregon. I'm liking how the black and white treatment really emphasizes lines and shapes.

I also like how different these two boats are -- the "Last Straw" obviously extreeeeeeeemly beamy, making the "Judy" boat look very thin and upright.

©Carol Leigh
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Little things . . .

If I'd been asleep, I'd have missed it...

Lying in bed this morning at 2:45, window open, listening to softly falling rain, I heard something in the distance. A flock of geese, calling gently to one another as they made their mysterious migration south.

The world turns, the rain falls, the geese fly south. A mystery. A reassurance. A feeling that things are as they should be. That all is well with the world at 2:45 in the morning.

Wishing you a day of delightful mystery.

©Carol Leigh

Yaquina Bay Road

We had a brief window of opportunity on Sunday morning to get outside without getting wet, so we drove up Yaquina Bay Road to Toledo. The clouds were beautiful, the air crisp and clean, the trees stately, and the waters calm. A lovely morning.

We had 90 inches of rain last year. Can you imagine? Ninety inches? But it's moments such as this that make the rain almost bearable. ©Carol Leigh

Foggy morning in Newport

Chris had a dentist appointment early yesterday morning so I asked him to drop me off at the boats and then pick me up later. So while poor Chris was in the dentist chair, I was cruising the bayfront, enjoying the solitude, the cool air, and the boats. As the fishing vessel "Finn" moved away from the dock, I was attracted to how isolated the boat looked, removed from all the others, with just the jetty and the hills in the background.

One of my last photos of the morning was an overview of some boats moored near the processing facility, where pelicans and gulls hovered about, looking for tender fishy morsels. I especially like the way the Yaquina Bay Bridge can barely be seen through the fog. An early morning hour well spent. ©Carol Leigh

Be careful out there . . .

A makeshift memorial on the Yaquina Bay South Jetty in Newport, where in November a couple, celebrating their 15th wedding anniversary, were swept from the rocks and killed. Yesterday, down the road in Yachats, two teenagers were washed off the rocks and drowned. We saw the helicopter go by, heard the sirens, listened to the police on the scanner, and heard that our neighbor, a pastor, was on his way to the group to offer what consolation he could. One body is still missing.

Unfortunately, we see people doing this all the time, people walking out to the very edge of the rocks to be close to the breakers surging in. In the blink of an eye, people's lives are ended, others' lives are changed. Forever. ©Carol Leigh