by slow road interlude
As I mentioned in the previous post, after a long day of driving we spent a very pleasant evening relaxing on the dock of the B&B place. Most enjoyable for me was to have the time to look very closely at the wonderful details in the pieces of driftwood lying about. Here are just a few of my favourite shots.
Added later: Here are the other posts in the slow road series should you like to visit them:
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and the finale.
July 15, 2013 in Nature, Photoworks, Textures by Marja-Leena
What a great road trip. The best kind – unhurried. Thanks for the photos – I do like the driftwood.
Dolores (Typy), yes, it was our favourite kind of little holiday though a short one. Glad you like the photos.
What a great spot for you to have spent some time. The owners picked some choice pieces of driftwood for the dock and you found them in perfect light. That fourth one with the tiny stones in the hollow is especially neat.
Susan, I’ve always loved to be by the water so I felt very much at home here. The driftwood pieces were a lovely bonus, just the thing for some closer photography after all the scenic photos of that day.
Well now, it doesn’t take a great stretch of the imagination to turn those pieces of driftwood into things even more wondrous. Not Ents maybe, but something getting close.
What a real bonus indeed! I especially like the last one, and the markings on the third one down. I certainly find that the magnificence of wide landscape is food for the soul, while the details are food for the mind.
Tom, don’t you think the “face” in the last image is rather “Entish”?
Olga, what a great observation on food for soul, food for mind – I agree!
The last photograph lives.
Joe, thanks, I think so too. By the time I took this photo, the evening light was getting lower and warmer, with deeper shadows, which made for a stunning image to my mind.
I love driftwood. The beaches here in Hawaii are so different. No driftwood. Different smells.
These photos remind me of my young days living on the coast south of San Francisco. We collected driftwood to burn in the fireplace. A neighbor had a yard full of pieces she had collected along with glass flotation balls, etc. No one then thought of making sculptures out of driftwood, but these days lots of people do that.
Hattie, interesting to learn that Hawaii does not have driftwood. Not enough trees and storms?
I have seen lots of things done with driftwood at small seaside places all along the west coast. I remember gift shops on the Oregon and north California coast specializing in the stuff. I used to fancy a driftwood coffee or patio table with a glass top and have seen some gorgeous ones in woodcraft shops here.
Because Lilloeet Lake is freshwater, I was surprised to see all this dirftwood and asked our hosts about it. She said its from logging and winter storms. The snowmelt, heavy spring runoff and strong river flows in and out of the lake at each end move great quantities of driftwood and logs.