Life's a Beach

WAILEA, Maui, Jan 6 - This morning started gloomy, just like yesterday.  But after trying and failing over and over again, the sun finally broke through the clouds by later morning.  So I headed out for a walk on the beach, for the first time since day one here.  I took Rachmaninoff along... Piano Concertos 1 and 2 - Vladimir Ashkenazy and the London Symphony.  Not bad company...

And what a sight it was.  The clouds still lingered over Puu Kukui (the "yin"), but the rest of the sky was mostly clear.  After about a mile heading in the northerly direction, I came across a lovely beach scene involving an older couple...

The lady was carefully and lovingly giving her man a haircut.  Both were so engrossed in each other.  Neither paid attention to anything else except their morning business.  "A lucky man," I thought.  "Life's a beach..."

A little further up the shore, I came across this egret.  "Weren't they supposed to be fishing?" I thought.  Indeed, if you click on the thumbnail photo of another such bird, you will see him doing just that.  But this egret was looking for his breakfast in the grass, near shore.  Then I remembered I had also seen the, on the golf course the other day.

Just behind me was an enormous beautifully manicured putting green, home to many worms, I am sure.  So this egret must have just walked off it...

...to take in a better ocean view?  J

On my return to base (the Elua condo beach), I saw something unusual that I had missed on my walk out: a cross!  Right on the beach.  With a flower stuck in it.  There was a plaque, too, but no writing on it.  At least nothing legible.  If there ever was anything inscribed, it had been rubbed out by too many curious fingers.  

"Hm..." I thought.  "Wonder what that's about... a drowned swimmer; a diving or surfing accident; a ship wreck?"

I know what you're thinking... "a ship wreck on a sandy beach?"  The doubt occurred to me, too.

I turned around.  No sand.  No beach.  Just a rocky point jutting out to the sea.  So also a ship wreck possibility, especially in stormy seas.  Life's a beach.  And so is death.

Life's a Beach for Dogs, Too

WAILEA, Maui, Jan 7 - Life's a beach for dogs, too.  This Golden Retriever and the Cocker Spaniel (?) made fast friends on the waves of Wailea beach this Sunday morning.

The Golden tried to carry on the relationship on dry land, too...

...but his owner's voice yanked him away from his new playmate.  Enough of that.  Time to move on and make new friends on new waves.  Life's a beach... it always changes.  "Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis" ("All things change, and we must change with them") [Latin]

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