Ocean Spray Leaves

I love the sun. Lately I've been out in it (I know we're not supposed to) down at Marine Park, on the brought-in beach. Yesterday and three days prior, I went swimming in the Bellingham Bay. It was fabulous and our our particularly record breaking heat days, the water was tepid. So nice.

Saltwater is great to swim in, so buoyant. I grew up around freshwater lakes, inland. It feels different inland, still, stopping, planted, where here around the water, everything is swirling and flows. I love that, but at the same time, it's restful to go inland, to feel the dry heat, to smell the smell of Eastern Washington, the dry grass, the wheat, the sage, the pine. Yes, very nice and invigorating.

David is still in the Arctic above Norway. He'll be back in ten days and this is a countdown now for us. Nine weeks is a long time to be apart. I thought that a long distant relationship would work when I moved to B'ham. With the ex, it didn't. This isn't really a long-distant relationship, it just is a long time to be apart as we are new to each other and there are so many things to learn and do. Like swimming in the sound. Hopefully he'll be into it when he returns. Well, hopefully the weather will still be great.

Here's a note from him: We had lovely day once the fog cleared and saw Atlantic Puffin, numerous wildflowers in profusion, a little history of poor quality gypsum mining, then over for Reindeer, Arctic Fox, Arctic Skua, Snow Bunting families,Fulmars and the best part for me... the first "flight" gliding down from800-1k' at the cliff nest down over a kilometer to the water by the juvenileThick-billed Murres.... very exciting!! They have just started and won't finish moulting into their flight feathers for another 40-50 days!!

Yes, I can't wait to see photos of all these birds and the landscape, ice, ice, ice. And polar bears, he's seen plenty. The guides have to carry shotguns (short version) along with them, since the bears do attack. And the guides have to go out to the firing range when back in Svalbard between cruises. Unfortunately David got the kick-back of the rifle in his face and has a couple of loose teeth now. Send him good healing energy. I'm hoping they'll heal on their own--I'm sending Reiki and distant cranial work.

Well that's about all for now. Enjoy the summer and plan an adventure. Our next one is together, going up the Nooksack River to camp. Can't wait.

Nan