The Narrative Image

SUNSET BEACH - NOV. 22, 2007 SUNSET BEACH - NOV. 22, 2007 SEASIDE BEACH - NOV. 24, 2007 ANONYMOUS DOG - SEASIDE BEACH - NOV. 22, 2007 GULL AMIDST ROCKS - INDIAN BEACH - NOV. 26, 2005 VIEW FROM ECOLA STATE PARK - NOV. 25, 2005 GULL AMIDST PICNIC - SEASIDE, OR - NOV. 23, 2007 OSPREY - SMITH & BYBEE LAKES, PORTLAND, OR - JUNE 2, 2007 INCOMING WAVE - CRESCENT BEACH - NOV. 23, 2007 CROW - CANNON BEACH - NOV. 24, 2007 INDIAN BEACH - NOV. 26, 2005 REMAINS #1 (ALL THAT IS LEFT) - CANNON BEACH - NOV. 24, 2007 REMAINS #2 (ALL THAT IS LEFT) - CANNON BEACH - NOV. 24, 2007 REMAINS #3 (ALL THAT IS LEFT) - CANNON BEACH - NOV. 28, 2003 REMAINS #4 (ALL THAT IS LEFT) - CANNON BEACH - NOV. 28, 2003 REMAINS #5 (ALL THAT IS LEFT) - CANNON BEACH - NOV. 28, 2003 GHOST BIRD (based on REMAINS #5)

I was able to visit the coast on the day after Thanksgiving. I had been dealing with an important audio-visual project and when I wasn’t planning for a trip, I was scanning pictures until early morning and if not, I was worrying about it. Either way, I wasn’t getting much sleep. And then I got blindsided by a cold that I couldn't get rid of. So, on the 18th, the presentation went off without a hitch and I was finished and then all the details of Thanksgiving were over and suddenly I had a moment when I didn’t have to do anything (not counting a growing stack of dishes) and like I said, I was able to go to the beach. But it didn’t appear to be such a great day to go to the beach. Snow was threatening to fall in the passes, and rain was enthusiastically falling everywhere else. Once or twice a patch of blue sky hinted at an alternative to November’s moisture onslaught, but mostly these hints proved to be cruel teasing. By some cosmic gift of timing, I ended up at Oswald State Park in...