Beach Birds

Birdie (DD3) has no classes on Tuesdays/Thursdays so she and I took the dogs out to the beach for a cold morning walk.  We didn't get there in time for the dogs to run unleashed, but I did get a few pictures!

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.  Jacques Cousteau

I have heard the mermaids singing to each other.  T.S. Eliot

Across the narrow beach we flit, one little sand-piper and I; and fast I gather, bit by bit, the scattered drift-wood, bleached and dry, the wild waves reach their hands for it.  The wild wind raves, the tide runs high, as up and down the beach we flit, one little sand-piper and I.  Celia Leighton Thaxter

I find myself at the extremity of a long beach.  How gladly does the
spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to the full
extent of the broad, blue, sunny deep!  A greeting and a homage to the
Sea!  I descend over its margin, and dip my hand into the wave that
meets me, and bathe my brow.  That far-resounding roar is the Ocean's
voice of welcome.  His salt breath brings a blessing along with it.  Nathaniel Hawthorne

A wonderful bird is the pelican
His bill will hold more than his belican.
He can take in his beak
Food enough for a week,
But I'm damned if I see how the helican.
Dixon Lanier Merritt

Why does the ocean rock the moon to sleep every night?  So the sun will wake and kiss the beach.  J. Henson