Sanibel

Miles of Florida beach--it's impossible to capture the entirety of it. In macro it is one thing, in micro another.

One year, the beach was full of conchs that were washed up from a storm. Last year there were many starfish. This year there was more seaweed and bracken than other years. It's been cloudy with barely a low tide. Usually there are large tide pools to wade through and hermit crabs are plentiful. We haven't seen any so far.

There is a familiarity to Sanibel that comes from 30 years of knowing a place and staying at the same spot of land all this time. But in that familiarity is also the constant change, literally as the tide pushes and pulls, and more generally too as each year the beach's character changes shape.

To fully speak of it or photograph it is impossible. These words and images will have to do.