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A blogsite offering entertaining daily oddities since January 2020. There are now over fifteen hundred posts in these four years. Images -- photographic, computer-simulated and poetic --, are drawn from daily life, as well as from poems and wordplay grouped by topic on our parent blog "Edifying Nonsense". The poetry displayed is all original, although portions of it evolved through rigorous editing on a collaborative website.
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scene next to Pitt St Bridge park, Mt. Pleasant SC, May 2020. |
Readers might be interested in a post highlighting more illustrated nonsense about 'pluff mud' in the form of a brief poetic saga ('The Walrus and the Carpenter, lowcountry version'). Click HERE.
pizza delivery boxes in Mt. Pleasant South Carolina, touting service to 'the Lowcountry' |
Elkhorn Slough, at Moss Landing CA, an inlet of Monterey Bay, has become, with protective measures enforced, a bathtub for once-endangered sea otters. If you are lucky enough to visit in April, as we were, you may get to see the pups being toured about by their moms. Attention is drawn to these gentle marine mammals, seemingly at play, as viewed from our rental kayak. If you prefer, there is a larger tour-boat. Other species of wildlife now abound in and near the waters and in the pastoral setting of the adjacent uplands, the latter having been developed a century ago for dairy farming. The fishing port of Moss Landing is still the site of a power plant that has dominated the skyline for decades, but is currently being partly dismantled.
Elkhorn Slough is teeming with sea otters |
terns on poles in the Slough |
harbor seals find this a good place to nap |
view over the Elkhorn Slough from the National Estuarine Research Reserve |
touring the uplands on an informative guided walk |
banner at the Elkhorn Reserve |
California poppies |
The author with fishing buddies at the entrance to an incredible seafood restaurant |
the beach at the local State Park, only a few feet from the restaurant |
tide-pool |
tide-pool |