Mist and Fog

Ah, May...the month of mist and fog at the beach.

And yet, there is a certain monochromatic beauty, a serenity, as  a hint of expectation.

Summer is just around the corner, waiting to burst with endless hot sunny days... 

 So, come! Walk with me...be sure to check out the little film at the end!

 

                                  

love

                  lizzy

......gone to the beach

And a wonderfully odd little treat from Dylan Thomas, all about a springtime night in a seaside town. Long ago and ...far away?

To begin at the beginning:

It is Spring, moonless night, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters and rabbits wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives.

Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the jollyrogered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wet-nosed yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling, on the one cloud of the roofs.


You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing.


Only your eyes are unclosed to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep.


And you alone can hear the invisible starfall, the darkest-before-dawn minutely dewgrazed stir of the black, dab-filled sea where the Arethusa, the Curlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon, the Rover, the Cormorant, and the Star of Wales tilt and ride.


dylan thomas