It's official!

Yesterday, March 20th, was the vernal equinox, the first official day of spring. We celebrated (since the sun actually shone all day) by going down to White Rock beach to see what kind of a tide the supermoon had gifted us with. It was low, but not down to the level where we start to see starfish and geoduck clams. But there were eagles and crabs and ... Here: look.

"Begin her"? (That's what it says. Click to read the sign.) 

"To the lonely sea and the sky"

Glittery

Miniature tide pool atop a rock. Barnacles, periwinkle snails, seaweed.

Big barnacle mouth

Warty rockweed

Green stone, with barnacle scars

Mussel lips

Checking out a tiny creeklet

I see a face. Do you?

A community of isopods, on the underside of a stone.

Stoney happy face.

And the eagles flew far overhead, dodging crows.