Somewhere, Beyond The Sea

Not quite golden sands but I do love Bobby Darin so I thought I'd pair him up with Morecambe Bay! It was strange weather the day I took these photos with sudden fog banks racing across the water but on a clear day (cue for another song) you can see the beautiful hills and fells of the Lake District quite distinctly all around the sweep of the bay.

The Sea, The Sea

I am having repair work on the house at the moment. The improvements are wonderful but I'm not getting much in the way of arty things done. It advances the Master Plan one step closer though so I'm rolling with it. The MP, in case you haven't guessed, involves me and the sea - but more of that later.

I have a wee Folksy exclusive to show you. These cards are all one of a kind and I don't have them available for sale anywhere else. They're all original collages and make unique note or greetings cards. Or you could pop them in a frame and put them on the wall!

   

Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Southport is well known here for its lack of sea which is rather unfair. The coast shelves very gently and the water goes out a long way at low tide leaving a beautiful, somewhat barren landscape of open sand merging into treacherous mud flats. On stormy, blustery days in autumn, when most of the tourists have gone, it becomes a lonely, haunting space; the preserve of black-headed gulls and the occasional heron. When the cloud lifts you can see Blackpool and the tower across the bay to your right and, if you're lucky, the mountains of North Wales off in the far distance to your left.

These are a few pics I took this week from the pier whilst dodging the rain.