Anything can happen as a wave closes out. With paddle bracing the wave for balance this Stand Up Paddleboarder keeps his eyes peeled for his next move.
Month: November 2015
Diagonal Lines – Photography
This post is in response to
Cee’s Compose Yourself Photo Challenge: Week #8 Diagonal Lines
Thanks for the wonderful response to these images. It’s an honor to receive the Featured Blogger award from Cee.
While touring the east coast in October this year a few images were shot on the diagonal. Continue reading
Thanksgiving Moon
The moon sets bright as
thin lines march from the crisp horizon
toward surfers playing faster
than tunes sung by a gull.
Slipping and slashing
they trade their tears
for a fast paced
backside beach break .
A single session sends
hatred under the bridge,
while winds of change
sweep clean a
purely present breath.
First find one,
then another.
PS. Inspiration to write c/o Run Towards Each Other by Katherine Riegel
SUP with Presence
I paddled yesterday in conditions to my liking. The tide was low the wind was down, the waves were small and the crowds were gone. I caught a couple of waves, and those were fun, but the rest of the time I was sort of out of focus, off balance.
Enter yesterday’s post from Power of Presence titled “Paddle Barefoot – set your feet free!”.
The opening line “Paddle with an open heart and your mind will follow” gave me pause. The whole post made me ponder adding breathing to my SUP outings. And while bare feet are out of season for me, the whole notion of bringing a bit of consciousness to my paddling was refreshing.
I engaged with the author, and downloaded a paddleboarding guided meditation. More on that when I’ve gotten waterproof audio gear.
WHAT SUP IN SACRAMENTO?
I looked for paddle boarders on the American river but didn’t find a one. The weather was warm with a hint of breeze to keep the fall leaves falling. Continue reading
Coffee Didn’t Do it.
It was the end of the week and time for a change. Not yoga. Not a walk in the forest. But steaming strong coffee and a session in the surf. Continue reading
WhatSup with Blogging 101?
It’s been a head’s down week at the WHAT SUP site. Blogging instruction, blogging compatriots, blog posting, all to make a better blogging experience. I even made a blavatar, which is the little square graphic that shows up in mysterious places, like the little N for Netflix.
So how do you end a week like this? Stand Up Paddleboarding at sunset seemed so simple an answer, even though I spent a bit of time upside down. Check it out.
Paris Patterns
We visited Paris in 2014. Me for the first time, my wife for a revisit. It was everything I’d hoped for and more. The place is simply a feast for the senses. It seems only fitting to submit these images for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Patterns. There were hundreds. Mostly shot with my iPhone and edited with Snapseed.
A lineup of rental bikes.
Train across from Gare d’Lyon.
Staircase down the street from Gare d’Lyon
RSVP to Dee’s Pedal-Paddle Party (fiction)
Settled on SUP
I lifted these lines right off his blog. What a great adventure.
“After a 4 1/2-month bicycle expedition around northwestern Europe, Joshua Sivarajah and his pint-sized paddling partner, Nero, weren’t ready for the adventure to end. So, they swapped bike for board, and embarked on a 1,777-mile journey down the Danube River—the continent’s second-longest river, nicknamed “Europe’s Amazon.” Photo: Joshua Sivarajah/ULI”
I found the site by looking for SUP sites, and sure enough he rides a SUP in some pretty interesting conditions.
As it turns out Joshua did some humanitarian work while on his trip by serving sandwiches for the Syrian refugee crisis. Check it out here.
SUP DAYS are better than others 