Stormscapes

You can really experience the elements on the Welsh coast.  You see the rain as it strides up the estuary, crosshatching the sky and shading the sea. When the sun gets caught between, the sea glows where the rain lands. 

Way out at sea, no such portent. The deep green and bubbling white waves jostle and spill. Then drive to the shore with an excitable roar and rumble beneath my feet. Pebbles applaud as the waves retreat, and for the shortest moment, the sea holds her breath. 

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But my best days are when the winds carry our words off before they’re heard. White horses rampage forward and dredge the shore of sand. Vertical rain joins forces and the distant sky blends with the sea, the horizon lost. Thoughts lost.

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These stormy seascapes revisit places and memories of the Pembrokeshire coast where I grew up and still wander.