New Years

#531 – January 2026

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This is the second time Melissa and I have traveled to the Oregon Coast in midwinter. The first time was in 2020. What struck me then and again on this trip was how early it grew dark.  Maybe this is because before 2020 we would visit the coast during seasons with more daylight. The feeling I get of being on the coast in midwinter is one of tranquility. There are still large crowds like in summer, yet the seas are rougher. In all of this activity, there is a thread of peacefulness weaving through the interactions of people and nature. I wonder if it is the long night with its expanse of darkness over the sea that brings this on.

1. Sunday (arrival)

Color photograph of sand ripples in water and a sand dollar in backlit by the low winter sun.
after sunset/floating in the water —high clouds/and the moon

2. Monday

Color photograph of barnacles and sea algae clinging together to a rock at low tide in the afternoon sun.
on the cliff face/houses is side-by-side – from this hut/a wonderful view

3. Tuesday

Color photograph at the edge of a tide pool with a row of sand depressions along the pool’s edge going from small to large back to small again backlit in the low winter sun with dark rocks background.
intertidal/at the edge of the pool/phases of noon

3. Wednesday (New Year’s Eve)

Color photograph of a sunset over the ocean with waves coming over a a sandbar splashing into a rock.
Sunset wave/across the sandbar/my feet soaked

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