Blue beauty
The kind of blues that make you happy
Framed
Where did they come from?
Where did they go?
Women Artists in the Arctic
I am pleased to announce
Women Artists in the Arctic, a collaborative multi-genre exhibition at Espace des Femmes, opens in Paris on 3 June 2021.
If you happen to be in town, I hope you will stop.
Morning
Dunelight
Oregon coast by spring dunelight, a study in contrasts
Turtles not Nurdles
The future is not in plastics.
These are Nurdles, the plastic pellets that are used to make all plastic products. 
They are small and light and often escape the captivity of shipping containers and factory waste streams. They turn up in the most remarkable places, like the Oregon beach in the photo above where I collected this vial.
After Nurdles are extruded into their final form, they go off to live in the world. When their useful life as some product or another is over, they are discarded and become a different part of the waste stream. The plastic breaks down into smaller pieces but, being a petroleum derivative, never biodegrades. Rather, it becomes micro-plastic, and it is becoming a common beach phenomenon. The Nurdle vial in my hand in the photo to the right is the same vial among the micro-plastic below. Kneeling in the sand, I collected this vial-full in ten minutes without moving from this spot.
Ten ten-minute surveys on eight Oregon beaches
Find out more about Nurdles and the Nurdle Patrol here.