#3 of TEN, TIMES CHANGE

I began writing this on Tuesday, three days ago, and you won’t read it until Friday morning. It was a chilling, damp morning but we walked north to the headland, zig-zagging back home. We spotted the little shore birds on our way north, found sea glass walking both directions (35 pieces by the time you read), and heard five sirens and met a couple of friends and dogs we know on our way home on the inner road. A log truck drove off the road and into a muddy bank. I don’t know how that went or if anyone died. I will not even know by Friday morning.

Shorebirds waiting out the terrible weather. (Gulls ion the other side of the creek. Can you see the little birds on the near side, mostly with their heads turned away?) We missed our walk two days this week, but went out in damp and drizzle the other five days. My fingers chilled to pale and senseless on those days we went out for an hour or two as I bent over for dozens of rock and bits of sea glass.
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