Language & Grammar discussion

I've had two poems in the Silver Birch Press "Where I Live Series." The second is Low Tide https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.co...

The first was Oranges and Pomegranates."https://silverbirchpress.wordpress.co...

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I did, I did! Ruth, your poems put the smells and the colours and the light right into my head!

Is that picture with the purple statice at the end of your garden or is it growing wild? Wonderful contrast!

Wonderful Woman!

Wow, thanks, Gabi.

That picture is not by me. It's a shot of Laguna Beach by someone named Sean Foster. Laguna, which is about 10 miles up the coast from where I live now, was the inspiration for this poem.

Well then, you have exquisite taste in choosing it!

The choice was Silver Birch's. I'd actually have chosen something more tidepooly.

I had a good look at the really big tide pools at Laguna, so beautiful, and so many of them (or maybe I was looking at different angles). When does the water warm up enough for swimming?

Here it really doesn't warm up to my requirements until at least January. Summer starts in December, the swimming season mid October (18C) It usually hits 23C by March and then slowly cools down to the point where you can swim in the water, but you need a sweater for the beach by the end of May!

Pacific Ocean is never really warm. Isn't 68 degrees average for here , Ruth? Our favorite spot is Dana Point ,a few leagues south of Laguna. I always wanted to live where Ruth lives.

I dipped my toe in San Francisco Bay. Brr. Wouldn't want to swim out to Alcatraz, that's for sure.

Thats roughly 18C, which is what you get around November, over here.

Carol wrote: "Pacific Ocean is never really warm. Isn't 68 degrees average for here , Ruth? Our favorite spot is Dana Point ,a few leagues south of Laguna. I always wanted to live where Ruth lives."

Yes the water here is always rather chilly. That's because there's a current that sweeps up the coast of Japan, picks up chill as it passes east to Alaska, then pours down the Pacific coast.

Gabi wrote: "I had a good look at the really big tide pools at Laguna, so beautiful, and so many of them (or maybe I was looking at different angles). When does the water warm up enough for swimming?

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The sad thing is, this poem was written from memory. If I go now to the same tidepools, they are barren and bare.