My daughter on the beach two nights ago, playing with the slow sand.
Slow sand
Category Archives: ocean
Graduate!
Graduation last night and Camille is done with high school! Hooray for all the Port Townsend High School graduates!
Summer sunset
I still don’t stay up much past nine most nights, but my young adult offspring talked me into a beach walk the other evening. We went down to Fort Worden and the Point Wilson Lighthouse. The sunset was glorious. I went back to the car for a jacket right away because the water temperature is around 51 degrees. It cools down quickly. The tide was coming in, so we only walked about half a mile, but it was gorgeous. This is looking north from Point Wilson towards Vancouver Island and the San Juan Islands…. over the kelp beds.
Young eagle
I took this with a zoom lens when I was helping a little with a boat launch….
Maxfield Parish clouds IV
Maxfield Parish clouds III
I am still in love with these clouds. Though Maxfield Parish’s clouds are amazing: here.
Maxfield Parish Clouds II
Maxfield Parish clouds I
This is for photrablogger’s Mundane Monday Challenge #58, though Monday didn’t feel mundane at all! My son graduated from WSU this weekend and we were in Pullman, in the frenzy of excited students and parents and families.
The photograph is from last Monday. I left chorus and the clouds put on a gorgeous show over Port Townsend Bay, light and lit like a Maxfield Parish painting….
Congratulations to all of the graduates everywhere….
Z is for zest
Z is for zest. What do you feel zest for?
The photograph is our small town synchronized swim team in 2007 at the Blossom, the last meet of the season that we went to that year. Our girls posed outside where it was very chilly, and all of the exited parents snapped photographs. Zest on both sides for the team and for swimming!
Webster 1913 here
Zest (?), n. F. zeste, probably fr. L. schistos split, cleft, divided, Gr. , from to split, cleave. Cf. Schism.
1. A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
2. Hence, something that gives or enhances a pleasant taste, or the taste itself; an appetizer; also, keen enjoyment; relish; gusto.
Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe Their zest of pleasure, and their balm of woe. Young.
Liberality of disposition and conduct gives the highest zest and relish to social intercourse. Gogan.
3. The woody, thick skin inclosing the kernel of a walnut. Obs.
from Dictionary.com here:
noun
1. keen relish; hearty enjoyment; gusto.
2. an agreeable or piquant flavor imparted to something.
3. anything added to impart flavor, enhance one’s appreciation, etc.
4. piquancy; interest; charm.
5. liveliness or energy; animating spirit.
6. the peel, especially the thin outer peel, of a citrus fruit used for flavoring:
lemon zest.
verb (used with object)
7.to give zest, relish, or piquancy to.
Zest for life, zest for writing, zest for all of the A to Z feelings that I’ve written about in the 7 sins and friends and all of the feelings that I haven’t written about. They are all part of being human! And now: zest for breakfast, I’m hungry!
Hooray for finishing and hooray for everyone who participated whether they finished or not!
X is for xenophobic
X is for xenophobic.Have you ever felt xenophobic?
How would I know if I were xenophobic since it is an unreasonable fear or hatred? How do we tell the difference between a reasonable fear or hatred and an unreasonable fear or hatred? Or is it only other people that can tell?
From dictionary.com:
xenophobic
adjective
1.
unreasonably fearful of or hating anyone or anything foreign or strange.
Origin of xenophobic
1905-1915
1905-1915;xenophob(ia) + -ic
Contemporary Examples
Β Β Β His most ardent and xenophobic political ally, Umberto Bossi, looks all but ready to bail.
Β Already Vulnerable, Berlusconi Weakened by Election Results Barbie Latza Nadeau May 30, 2011
Β Β Β The committee should avoid foreign ownership questions which will make them sound parochial or xenophobic or both. 9 Questions for Rupert Geoffrey Robertson July 17, 2011
The article raises repeatedly reported statements by some opposition candidates that are βbigoted and xenophobic.βΒ Will Scandalous Videos Topple Georgiaβs President? A Rebuttal Tedo Japaridze September 23, 2012
Β Β Β We are almost certainly hard coded to be xenophobic, which is why hunter gatherers often have such extraordinary homicide rates. Racism Isn’t Natural. But I Suspect Xenophobia Is. Megan McArdle October 17, 2012
Β Β Β “Unfortunately these kinds of xenophobic attacks have happened in Libya before,” says Bouckaert.Β Β Libya’s Hysteria Over African Mercenaries Babak Dehghanpisheh March 5, 2011
Β Β Β Oh, and their attitudes towards Arabs and promised land are even more insular and xenophobic than most settlers. How Yair Lapid’s Gambit Ends Bernard Avishai March 6, 2013
Β Β Β I started hearing rumors about xenophobic attacks in early April. Will the World Cup Start a Riot? Gretchen L. Wilson June 9, 2010
Β Β Β Meanwhile, politicians like Tom Tancredo led an ugly race to the bottom to see who could be most xenophobic.Β Β Β Bush Was Right Mark McKinnon April 27, 2010
Word Origin and History for xenophobic
adj.
1912, from xenophobia + -ic.
Online Etymology Dictionary, Β© 2010 Douglas Harper
It seems that xenophobic is something we say about other people. Not very nice of us, and judgemental.
Batman at the beach. A younger child at a party, dressing as Batman, a powerful archetype.
And he catches one of the other children.
She escapes.
Batman is on his own.
He starts to enjoy the beach.
Batman wading.
By the end of the party, he takes off the hot costume. He was comfortable enough that he didn’t have to be Batman any more.
I took the pictures in 2006.
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