Low Tide

Jeremy Point, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Glossy sand, in streams and puddles, and the life left behind.
  The sea has reached the low point. 

To Jeremy Point

Great Island Trail, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Low tide, no wind, sunny...
  Perfect time to visit Jeremy Point,
     the illusive point on Earth
   that appears and disappears in the rhythm of motions the sea knows very well.

  And just to stand on this point, I have to obey nature and be on time...  

Defined by the Sea

Marconi Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Age by age, the sea here gives battle to the land;
age by age, the earth struggles for her own,
calling to her defence her energies and her creations,
bidding her plants steal down upon the beach, and
holding the frontier sands in a net of grass and roots which the storms wash free.

The great rhythms of nature... have here their spacious and primeval liberty;

HENRY BESTON, The Outermost House

Through the Waves

Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

Early light dusts the trees, grasses, and sandy cliffs in orange yellows,
    the clouds of dewdrops are rising in the interspaces...

  With the lasting sound of waves, unrolling over glossy surfaces...

Early Light

Nauset Light Beach, Cape Cod, Massachusetts

When all has been said,
the adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live,
and not to have joy in it and awe of it,
not to share in it,
is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

HENRY BESTON, The Outermost House

Coming...

Castle Neck, The Crane Estate, Massachusetts

October is the month when we, humans, take to heart the leaves,
   see their forms, colors, and feel the warmth of their shine.
 
  Each one with the other in the glowing symphony we call Autumn... 

What I am I am

Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts

My prickles or smoothness are as much a quality of your hand as of myself.
I cannot tell you what I am, more than a ray of the summer's sun.
What I am I am, and say not. Being is the great explainer.

HENRY D. THOREAU, Journals, February 26, 1841