Summer Weather Patterns

Summer has come early this year. You can tell by the fog: the more the inland valleys heat up, the more fog at the coast. Sometimes. Like today.

A gathering of cormorants, gulls, terns, pelicans, and my favorite, western grebes, floated on the nearly glassy bay over a school of anchovies. I'm nearly certain about the anchovies because a few very fresh ones had washed up on shore, or had been dropped by gulls. I doubt they stayed exposed on the sand for long.

Grebes as far as I could see, fading off into the fog. The view didn't make a very good photo, but I've never seen so many grebes in one place, so I didn't worry about proper composition.

The water was gray. No, olive. No, silver. No, pomona green. No, steel blue. No, pewter....

Past beaches towering over the current beach.

Monuments at the edge of the world.

NaNoWriMo Winner's Badge

Gosh, this is just like getting a Girl Scout badge, though I never was a Girl Scout. I was a Campfire Girl. We got beads and patches (that weren't called badges) which we sewed in creative fashion onto navy blue vests. Which I loved.

Anyway, I finally had the time to go to the Camp NaNoWriMo winners page to copy and paste, right here, one of their several choices of winner badges:

 

This doesn't have quite the same zing as a sewable patch or wood-bead embroidery, but it gets the point across in the very small world of this blog.

I didn't really like where the story I was writing was going while I was working on it, but now that I've had some time to let it percolate, I find that there are some intriguing ideas in there that just need further exploration. And the characters aren't all boring. So I'm going to promote the percolation and see what happens.