Day 31
Water retreat.
No breaks today, all music. New bird songs ringing clear at low tide made for a peaceful, relaxing 90 minutes. There is a calmness about low tide I have only recently begun experiencing. Over the last 6 years in these parts, it has been the high tides that have the strongest call for me to be near. Today felt different as the deep seabed floor reveals her secrets. The cliffs toward Cape Blomidon glistening ruby red as the furthest out mudflats contrast intensely as they reflect the crystalline skies from below. The yellow tinged sky holds darkness in the blue and silver shadowed clouds across the Bay. The stillness is deceiving. It is always moving, shifting and these subtle changes are not dissimilar to what happens in the efforts to make this music. Always movement, even in the steady repetition there are shifts and accents as the curved walls reflect and echo the notes or swallow them whole.
