healingwords: poetry for the soul

As dusk fell over the sea the fisherman waded into the waves, throwing their nets by hand over the water. I didn't see the catch, leaving the beach before darkness. 

A wonderful evening with all our family together at the beach. Once six, we are now twelve.  It felt very safe, everyone was carefully distanced, walkers apart, fisherman in the sea. Families enjoying the cooling evening, swimming, eating picnic cenas, children splashing in the waves. We are fortunate to live near to both mountains and sea, able to enjoy the refreshing beauty of nature. 

How wonderful to see the sea today as the wind whipped up the waves, the sun sparkled and the white half moon hung in the sky above the waving palm trees.

The wind was raw and biting but the day brightened with warm sun. This image was from an isolated 2 metre spread of sea shells, as if the sea had sieved them from the waves and dumped them, wet and shining on the sand.  © 2020 Jacqueline Knight Cotterill.  All rights reserved.  

Once you start looking there is art and beauty everywhere in the natural world. This combination of a pine cone blown from distant trees and sea washed strands lay together on the beach this week, one of many such interesting formations from the debris on the sands. Thankfully the beach was surprisingly free from human rubbish. I picked up some bits of bleached plastic and blasted glass.  © 2019 Jacqueline Knight Cotterill.  All rights reserved.  

The beautiful Traught Beach, near Kinvara on Galway Bay. Families were still swimming on a hot afternoon in late September. I watched the sun rise and set over this beach where I felt a great sense of peace.  © 2019 Jacqueline Knight Cotterill.  All rights reserved.