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Storm Season, Cygnet Cove, Ucluelet, British Columbia, Canada

Storm Season

I’ve got some time off. A lot of time, actually. I’ll spend most of it working on some projects and skiing. But today I drove and ferried out to Vancouver Island’s west coast, where it’s storm season. Big weather and big waves crashing down on rocky shores and wide sandy beaches that go on as far as the eyes can see through all that sea mist. Been out this way a few times before, but never while the Pacific was particularly angry. So, knocking something off the bucket list.

It was dismal grey and a little rainy when I left home, bound for the ferry terminal. A promising start.

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Tug and Barge at Sunset, The Strait of Georgia, BC Ferry, Nanaimo to Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Take me home, now, wayward road

Take me home, now
Wayward road
I’ve set the course
For hearth and friends
Who knew me well
‘Fore all that changed
In the lands beyond
Our common sense

But changed have I
Beyond a scope
I can explain
No people of
This world the same
Yet all alike
In ways I’ve seen
Which never learned
From books or schools
But only when
I took the road
And spanned the gap
In time and place
To meet them in
The worlds they’ve made
Sat at their hearth
And listened, then

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Small Craft and Infinity, Bowen Island, Howe Sound, From Horseshoe Bay, British Columbia, Canada

Infinity ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #117

With the strongest telescope
I cannot see beyond what I know to be

With an electron microscope
I cannot see within the smallest part of me

With the clearest mirror
I cannot see the me that is me

With the mightiest pen
I cannot set down the words defining me

With the cleverest mind
I cannot imagine the bounds of me

With the truest heart
I love, which is all I need to know of infinity

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Cozy, Blackrock Resort, Ucluelet, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada

Cozy ~ Pic and a Word Challenge #116

Exposed
Out on the rocks
Ocean breaking at my feet
Along a shoreline
So battered over time
Even were the air at rest
It would seem storm buffeted

But there
The resort so close
I nearly feel the warmth
Of the golden window light
The frontage seems
To brace against the weather
Like I sometimes do in a storm
Arms outstretched
Head on into the rippling wind