Beaches come and go

The rock beneath the beach has been smoothed by the scouring sand. Within a few winter weeks the beach was back.

Wild tiger lilly

Wave 2

Three thin layers of ocean water slide over each other, each going in a different direction.

The sun plays off the lowest, thinest layer

Wave 1

Magic on the earth

"If there is magic on the earth, surely it is contained in water"
- Loren Eisley

Ghost Ranch sunset

The full moon rises opposite the setting sun.

Fixate on one, miss the other.

Thanks to Mark Nohl for early and late light in New Mexico, the Ghost Ranch, and angles of repose.

Maine rockface

The rock here in Maine is schist — sedimentary rock that's been heated, transformed and folded deep in the earth.

High and dry now, it's weathered almost smooth by the pounding of high tides and storms, but its big grains are still pretty prickly to walk barefoot on.