by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1118 This is the place our family often visits. Four generations. This is the place where sea lions soak in the sun on seastacks or swim in the shallow water near the shore. They bark at us; we bark back. This is the place where the beach is smooth, round, gray...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1111 US Route 20 U.S. Route 20 is the longest continuous road in the United States, stretching for 3,365 miles. From the Atlantic to the Pacific. From Boston, Massachusetts, to Newport, Oregon. From New England to the Pacific Northwest. A scenic highway from...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
SOL25-1104 Photo: From our beach house deck, Rockaway Beach, Oregon, Spring 2025. There’s something unforgettably spell-binding about it all . . . Sky evanescing into the endless seaSpray from foamy waves cresting and crashingSurf relentlessly roaringSea gulls...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal, In My Classroom |
SOL25-0916 The marine layer rolls in like a whispered secret, softening the edges of the Oregon Coast and turning the familiar into something dreamlike. Foggy mornings here aren’t gloomy, they’re pure magic. The Oregon Coast I.Supper was take-out—clam chowder...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Poetry Friday Walking along the surf is one of my greatest delights. The horizon challenges me to look to the future, to keep dreaming. The steady rhythm of the breakers and the tides speaks to me to keep on, to never give up. The carefree winging of the sea gulls...
by Alice Nine | A9 Journal |
Slice of Life Tuesdays #190507 It was Wednesday morning, and we were doing what we love doing — taking a long beach walk. It was a cool 49 and the beach was nearly empty. A lone fisherman wearing waders was fishing for surfperch. We hadn’t walked far when...
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