High tide, Trenton, Maine, USA
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Out going tide…same spot, same day. Trenton, Maine, USA
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The Tide Marks Time
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The ebb and flow of the tide
marks the time of the people on the coast of Maine.
We track our lives by it.
Go to work by it
or plan our activities by it.
High tide, low tide
affects the activities
of young and old.
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High tide,
not good for swimming for the very young,
looking for shells,
or clammin’…
High tide, in a storm
can flood a road or causeway, remove docks,
and bridges, stop traffic in it’s tracks.
Also at high tide,
the big ships come in,
and go out,
the scenery changes right up to the shore.
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Low tide,
the best for little kids at the beach,
looking for shells, rocks
and sea creatures left behind.
One might even find a shiny bit of
sea glass smoothed by the ocean
and traveled from a far.
The clammers and worm diggers
are out workin’ hard.
Seaweed is gathered for food,
the garden and other uses
off the rocky coast of Maine.
Time is money
and time is ruled by the tide.
So is life at home
ruled by the tide…
dad’s at work
by the ebb and flow of the tide.
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The ebb and flow of the tide
marks the time of the people on the coast of Maine.
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Bodhirose
And I live in Florida where I am surrounded by tides on three sides–but I live inland in Central Florida–not near the water. Life on an island sounds so romantic somehow doesn’t it.
Well, I think I’ll take a look at your work if you don’t mind. I’m a big fan of “Lesliepaints”–she is a wonderful painter/artist and has a blog on WordPress too. You may enjoy visiting her. I’m not an artist but I enjoy many art forms–pottery being my favorite.
Are you saying you forgot where the “safe” place is that you put them? I can’t tell you how many people I know have done the same thing. They hide things away too well!
Thanks for sharing, Siggi!
Gayle
siggiofmaine
Gayle…thanks for your nice comments. I am from the mid west…Wisconsin/Minnesota and I enjoy the changing of the tides…I do have to remember it is a rough and dangerous life for families of fishermen and people who live on islands, as some of my friends do.
On facebook and my Art of Sigrid Gerstner Stevens Saradunn facebook page, I have some of my most recent paintings…the good, the bad, the ugly !…well, I usually stop at bad, but a lot of my paintings have changed since I had cataract surgery…and the ones before were pretty much horrible.
I have two paintings on my daily journal writings…July 27, an abstract portrait and on July 23 a painting called SuperMoon…it is purple, on YUPO, a plastic paper. I will be putting more on as I get them finished…and when I find the ones that ARE finished, but I put them some place “safe” when my granddaughter had semester break from the Art Institute in Boston.
Thanks for asking…
☮ ♥. Siggi in Downeast Maine
Bodhirose
Hi Siggi–a lot of activity going on there by the pier–thanks for sharing this snippet of life there. It would take me a while to get used to life by the tides I’m sure.
Do you ever share any of your paintings on your blog? I would love to see…
Gayle
siggiofmaine
Bodhirose…thought of you today when painting by the ocean, on a pier…a lobsterman came in and I asked when he went out fishing this morning….4 am, and this was noon, and there was still more to do !
There were two young boys playing in the rocks on the beach…big rocks…they could climb on, and the little rocks they thru in the ocean. When they came back from lunch, they were surprised the water had come in so far and covered their “playground”…it is just their second summer in Maine.
☮ ♥. Siggi in Downeast Maine
Heaven
i like your take on this prompt…
“Time is money
and time is ruled by the tide.
So is life at home
ruled by the tide…”
happy sunday ~
siggiofmaine
Heaven…thank you for taking the time to read my post
and then
taking the time to write the wonderful reply.
Hope your Sunday is as wonderful
as it is here…
sun is shining,
temp just right, with a breeze.
Perfect summer day.
☮ ♥. Siggi in Downeast Maine
siggiofmaine
Bodhirose:
My friend, Jennifer, says the fact that there are a few negatives like the driving in the bad weather,
the positives of living on an island, revolving around the tides,
fishermen, lobstermen, the families and neighbors co-ordinating special events, she wouldn’t trade it for anything.
The close knit community, the smell and sound of the surf, the animals…especially seeing seals sunning themselves on the rocks, birds, living a more “natural life” for her are more than money can buy.
Bodhirose
I totally understand–I would love that natural life too–very valuable.
Bodhirose
I really like this–and somehow it sounds comforting to live your life by the tides. Do people really do that?! Oh, I see my answer in your response to Brian–I guess so.
siggiofmaine
Bodhirose…indeed they do..as you already noticed. Even people like me are aware of the tide during storms year round, I worry about a friend who works
nights and lives on an island connected to the mainland by treacherous causeways covered in seaweed and water at high tide during storms, and a slippery
bridge that is two lanes wide and sways in the wind. And if the tide is out when you walk over to an island, you had better know when the tide is coming in
or you’ll be stranded for a long time til the tide is out again !
Bodhirose
I don’t like the sound of a slippery two lane bridge that sways in the wind! Yikes! But still I’m intrigued by people who live with all of this going on around them–and keeping track of it all. So interesting–thanks for sharing.
siggiofmaine
Brian…always new I was “missing a link” ☺. Thanks for fixing it again.
I am a midwest girl…ok, old lady…and when I came to Maine, I had a lot to learn about living on the coast, but the thing I remember most is someone coming in (we are still friendly acquaintances) and
asking if her nursing shift could be determined by the tide since her husband was a clammer. Sigh.
brian miller
ah. tides become the metaphor for the rhythm of life…ever stop to think about what dictates your life…can be a scary thought to thumb through…thought provoking write…
will fix your link again…it keeps missing the (.com) at the end…