my little piece of heaven Washington style.

It is rocky, usually too cold to walk on without a jacket; but it is the closest beach with salt water .

It is where I spent my fiftieth birthday and where we got together with Gran dad when we could spring him. My girl would walk for just as long as I want if we could talk her daddy into staying. He gets too bored...

If I need to be renewed it works.Not sure how this compares to coral sand and tropics?

Song Of The Old Growth Forest

By  K. Cornthwaite 2011

 photo byJ Cornthwaite




The winter red
Chirps whistling
Its complex chorus
In a choir
Of other birds.


Its perch is
The winding Roots
Of a Western hemlock.


The churning pool
Of fresh water
Beneath the waterfall,
Gurgles and
Bubbles
Like a boiling pot.
The winter wind,
Breathing upon the trees
Swishing through
The forest
In the Night


The woodpecker
Keeping time
The swaying branches
Givin' spice
And all of Nature's
Other notes
Hidden from our ears,
Are all part


                             Of one big
                                   Something:
                                          The song of the old growth Forest.

Soon soon August!

Beach at afternoon and glorious water

I can wait but just barely!

What a wonder it is going to be !  Trying to wrap my mind around the scenery is beyond me just now.

Princess on Turtle Cove.

I hear that the resort is fantastic and not so inland that I won't see the sand.

Oahu is not the BIG Island, but our "native guide" loves it like the back of his own hand. I am sure he can see it in mind eye already!



We want to see turtles!!!

That persistant something...

Photo courtesy of J Mack Photgraphy-bridge series

It rolls about in your mind

like a river rolling the rocks on its bottom,

rolling, rolling, under and past the bridge.

It is so deep it is forgotten momentarily.

Yet it continues to roll in your spirit

like those rounded

thumped rocks below

the river water surface.  

There is that something...

stirring and rolling.

Ah. There with the shallows

Rolled up to be seen:

 glistening and wet with purpose,

Standing testament

God Loves Me



What a glorious inheritance You have given God!

Indeed this is a true inheritance beyond my expectations