“Look at that sea, girls — all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. Â We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
[L.M. Montgomery :: Anne of Green Gables]
Look at that sea, girls…
May 30, 2014 by
Oh yes – the beautiful sea.
Seems like an age since I’ve been near the water’s edge.
Thank you Jillian – your photos are a treasure trove 🙂
xx
J,
Always so happy to see you here.
X
The top picture that you just changed: marvelous, gorgeous, beautiful, superb, tres jolie, magnifique!!!!
I was looking at some old posts of yours the other day, (therefore older photographs) and you have evolved, even your style has changed (for the better I mean) and most of all: the quality of your photographs!!!!!! Even the subject, the colors, the framing, even the way you dress. Interesting to see the evolution of a person. You are getting better all the time (even if the big interest is that you mostly stayed the same), I just wanted to say that.
Thanks for the new p=pictures (and some of your jewelery, wow!!!!)
OH yes.
I’ve been keeping this blog for over seven years now!
There has been plenty of life change, metamorphosis of personality, overturning of wardrobe, geographical gallivanting and four different cameras!!! 🙂 Glad you can see the growth and change.
XX
I can smell it and feel it and hear it. Thank you.
My great pleasure, sister. X
Hey Lady Plume! how are you? I am well. I love your cover photo, I thought that the moment I saw it, that should be her cover! It’s perfect! And the photo’s of the sea, makes me yearn for her. Thank you. Simone
I’m well, too! Glad to see you here!
As for that sea…I am an interior girl, heart and soul, forever…but I love to visit the ocean: formidable, unfathomable, and frightfully beautiful. 🙂
I just found your blog this afternoon (you know how you visit one and then another and finally you land on one that grabs you and makes you want to start reading from the very beginning)…and am so happy that I did. I’ve been mezmerized by your photos and your stories. I can tell you have a good spirit and I love that you see and share the beauty of this magnificent world with us. It’s lovely through your eyes.
Sarah
Sarah. She is all that and way more.
Lucky you, you found her.
We all find her if it’s meant to be. 🙂
L,
YOU.
XX
Sarah,
Ah….I do know how that happens:)
Thank you for being here and for stating all those wonderful things you see and feel in me. Gosh. What an encouragement this comment is to me. Thank you for being here.
X
Just the photos I needed to see on this 90 degree day! Beautiful!
90 degrees!!!
UGH!
TOO SOON!!!!!!
When I first saw that photo of you, I knew it had to be your banner photo – it is unbelievably beautiful!
Quoting from a favorite series…ahh. Lovely lovely.
One of my favorite series, too. 🙂
I may re-read it this summer on the front porch while the sun is setting and the bugs are making music.
Jillian, the jumping photo — it made my heart leap with you, seriously. Pure joy. How beautiful and strong you are. xo
🙂
The sea buoys everything up.
Always love having you here.
X
My home:) It takes my breath away every time I see it! Glad you got to enjoy the “empty” coastlines & the woods that are full of moss & quietness. Didn’t it feel like a gnome was going to run across your path in those woods? Ha! Thanks for sharing your snapshots:)
Katie,
“Empty” is right. I think I saw a total of ten people in three days (while on the beach about 8 hours a day). It was miraculous!
Simply stunning
Thank you!
Oh, thank you all for being here. X
that was certainly refreshing for my spirit, a prayer for my soul.
thank you. bless you.
xx
My pleasure, friend.
X
*sigh*
I’m so delighted to have found your blog. I saw your photographs on the cover of Artful Blogging and was literally pulled across the bookstore to see who had gifted their soul in such gorgeous full color. I haven’t quite figured out what pulls and tugs at me through your images and words, but that’s what so beautiful about it. Thanks for the resting place.
And my gosh, Artful Blogging was SO kind and generous to give me not one but TWO cover photo slots! 🙂 Thanks for finding me and for taking the time to leave a comment here!
X
ok..ok…i’m always so intimidated to post a comment but i think it’s time to stop being a shady and just say……those photos are just pure amazingness. I just love the pictorial diaries you post
Does “jiorji” sound like Georgie?
Just wondering.
You never need to feel intimidated by this space and thank you for liking my photography! It’s my pleasure to share my life moments here, especially with folks like you.
X
Have I mentioned that that series is one of my absolute FAVORITES! Growing up I wanted beautiful red hair with wavy curls because I loved Ann(with an “e”) so much! And as it happens, I am reading one of the later books in the series on my paperwhite now! Also, I have a beloved hardback that I was given by my Godmother many, many moons ago, when I was a babe.
Anyway, I love seeing the intricate simplicity and magic of the sea that you captured here.
Many thanks for that!
Shine on!!!
xox
I know. I KNOW! All women are created equal except for red heads…they’re supernaturally beauty equipped with that magnificent hair of theirs! OH TO BE ONE!
X
Oh, the sea is pulling me. But what I can’t stop thinking about, even after walking away and going about my day, is how Emily Carr would have loved the heavy wet cedar, and the sunlight in the shadows. I can smell it through the screen.
Thanks for all the beauty. I wouldn’t trade you for a millon diamond ropes.
Have you been reading her journals and collected stories and essays??? I got a little hooked on Emily Carr last summer, as you may remember. No one loves the sunlight in the shadows like she.
Diamond ropes.
Me neither.
X
I just burst out laughing thinking about Tater in the water. I love this post
🙂
I know.
Also, I only let him swim a little bit on this trip because I was worried he would be swept out to sea and I also have an active imagination regarding sharks and their feeding habits. HOWEVER, I did make him swim out into the surf after he rolled, quite extensively, in a dead seal.
I love your springy soul!
🙂
Thanks, babe. X
hello,
I’m french, I live in Paris.
so far from your way of life and so close of my soul. BUT, I need to change and your blog that I’ve just discovered make me feel very happy, I have read ( even if I didn’t understood everything because of my english…) all the pages, it was an afternoon of travel. thanks a lot to share your photos. I dream about the state of washington and around, I hope I could come and see the pacific coast, forests and mountains one time in my life. thanks, thanks thanks…..
I hope you make it to the American West some day, too, but am glad to give you glimpses into the life and land here in the meanwhile.
Thanks for finding me, Isabelle!
X
Wonderful photos! So sorry I missed the shop update! I’m dying for another one of your rings. I really liked the square ones! Thanks for the visual uplift today!
There will be more!
Thanks for being here!
X
Gorgeous Gorgeous. Not only the photos, but your words, too. It’s like you live a dream that I didn’t know I wanted to have. Your newest pieces are beautiful. Thank you!
Thank you, Lauran!
Is this Cape Disappointment? We live a short drive from the coast and we spend a lot of time there in all seasons….usually camping. The beaches in that stretch between Cape Dis and Cape Lookout are just so spectacular. Each year I say we need to go somewhere else but we are just drawn back…season after season. So much beauty.
JUST that very spot!
These pictures are gorgeous. I love your photography style. Where is this beach?
These are all beaches on the Oregon Central Coast between Newport and Florence.
nothing, nothing, NOTHING like the sea! thanks for your beautiful images