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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

While creating this lament for the end of summer in Australia, David visits some familiar oceanic places where the waves are now colliding with the rocks and producing “salt-saturated air”, before heading for a quieter cove where he can end “a good day” … a good season … with a swim. There are some really good photos here to accompany a lively text. Wonderful, David!

David Kirkby's avatar

Thank you my friend.

Spring is coming to Cork!

Enjoy!

Best Wishes - Dave :)

Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Thank you, Dave. The weather is still a bit cold and damp, but the days are a lot brighter now.

Susan Hickman's avatar

Ah the final gift of the summer sea! I imagine a piece of paper, one edge winter (us, here in the North) and one edge summer (you down under) and I’m pulling that paper gently towards me, to bring in summer…

Susan Hickman's avatar

Haha! It’s actually impossible to imagine spring right now … I can hear the snow plow scraping the snow on the road outside my window!

David Kirkby's avatar

Lol Susan. When sharing a bed - I bet you hog the blankets!! 😂

You are welcome to some Spring and Summer tho, my friend. I think you deserve it!!

Best Wishes - Dave :)

Laura Coleman's avatar

Sounds like a beautiful day and what a lovely Nautilus. Thanks for the reminder that today is a good day and tomorrow too. 🙏🏼

David Kirkby's avatar

Thank you, dear Laura

D :)

Aaliya's avatar

This post took me on a journey, I could feel the soft waves crashing on the rocks, the crips sea breeze , what a stunning piece of writing my friend.

David Kirkby's avatar

Thank you, dear Aaliya. Writing is my delight, especially when good people enjoy it.

May the sea breeze find you wherever you are, and the sunlight too.

Best Wishes - Dave :)

Simone Senisin's avatar

How fabulous … l am waving Summer goodbye in Port Fairy this weekend. Yes, soon the whales 🐋🌊💙

David Kirkby's avatar

Hey Simone.... Yes... whale time!

All seasons are a delight. They remind us that we are each a small part of the world - even those who forget.

Best Wishes - Dave :)

Rebecca Cook's avatar

Ah, summer letting go into fall. What a lovely reflection, Dave. What well-being and beauty. Letting go gently. We are here for the duration of our days, and how lovely they can be. We are the dust of the luckiest stars.

Carawen's avatar

Beautiful David, I love the turn of the seasons. We have had (maybe) our last deluge of rain for summer, and I can feel that crispness and thinning of the morning air as we approach the equinox 🌿

David Kirkby's avatar

Good morning Carawen

Thank you. Yes.... the seasons are an endless cyclical delight - more subtle here than in the higher altitudes, but no less wonderful. A little less sunshine on the Sunshine Coast - and a different taste to the air. Much the same here in the Northern Rivers....

Have a marvellous day!

D :)

Carawen's avatar

I was actually in the northern rivers this weekend! Love it there 💗

School of Blue's avatar

This is so inviting, like a siren call. The sea, the waves, the light and David's words, the claiming of the last days of summer. Here in the northern hemisphere, the light has changed already, a summer tease is in the air. We just take longer to warm up here, an island in the North Sea.

David Kirkby's avatar

Thank you my friend. I lived in London through an English Spring, long ago. So different to here - and to the Africa of your own younger days. Beautiful though! I hope your Springtime is a delight.

Best Wishes - Dave :)

sally's avatar

Beautiful ... can taste the salt spray on the other side of the world 🌎

David Kirkby's avatar

Thank you Sally

D :)