A BREATH OF SALT AIR
Breath of Salt Air – Moon in the Daylight – April 22, 2013
Have you ever noticed the Moon out in the daytime? I always marveled at this since as a child I was under the impression that the moon comes out at night. Not entirely true. When you look at the Moon you are seeing the bright light of the Sun reflecting off it. Two...
Breath of Salt Air – Long Beach Sketch-4/16/13
Sketching in pencil by the side of the beach takes me back in time. I feel connected to the art of the past. After all, making marks on a surface is one of the most basic human expressions of communication. We have drawings in caves and on rocks dating back to...
Breath of Salt Air-Blue Vapor-April 9, 2013
Sometimes there is a haze of blue humidity hanging over the bay. It’s a soft light but also persistently bright all in the same instant. Take a moment to watch it and it appears to shift right before your eyes. This morning there was a veil of cerulean haze...
Breath of Salt Air April 2, 2013
When you get down to the ocean you never quite know what to expect. Will it be peaceful and flat, or rough and churned up? The sea with its changeable and unpredictable moods will confound you every time. It doesn't seem to matter what kind of temper the water is in....
Breath of Salt Air, March 26, 2013
Living by the water all year round in New England has its challenges. There is the flooding, the Nor'Easters, piercing wet weather and whipping winds. But after a dismal unrelenting gray day, very often a mini miracle takes place. It happened just now. The sun drops...
March 19, 2013
What is it that is so captivating about the sea? Right from that first glimpse of blue-green to the curling edge of iridescent white foam, you are transported, electrified, alive! And it doesn’t really matter what time of year it is (Although warm weather sounds good...