Four Miracles

After years of working down on the beach and walking at Presque Isle I've become familiar with these places in the same manner that one is familiar with a wife or a significant other or a favorite sweat shirt. The smells, the sounds, an awareness of seasonal and daily cycles, the affects of time in the long and short term. One can often predict what will happen next based on the signs, like body language these spaces are always communicating something. If you listen and watch you can begin to see the system at work, but no matter how familiar it all becomes there are always wonderful surprises. A week doesn't pass that the lake doesn't produce a curiousity of some sort. Its one of the reasons I keep going back. I want to see the surprise ending. From ice dunes to Turneresque sunsets...there is never a dull moment. Plenty of peaceful moments, but never a dull one.