I guess you can say sunrise is the grand finale of the dawn – but I missed it this morning by about 1o minutes.  At 6-45 it was rather cold on the beach, with a slight wind blowing.  The cleaners had been along late yesterday, and the little hut up on stilts that shelters the lifeguard has been delivered and put in place.  These huts are collected up and put into storage from mid April to October.  In the summer the lifeguard begins duty at 8am -and I’m wondering if it will be the same one who’s been there the past previous 2 summers.

As I walked along,  I saw only one offering, and at first thought it was just rubbish (Uruguayans are pretty awful with rubbish) but the pigeons returned to continue eating something up there once the dog moved on, so I wandered from the water’s edge up to the top of the beach, where I took photos of this offering.  I haven’t seen one laid out on newsprint before, and forgot to check which paper it was …  and now wonder, is the major metro daily or a lesser one favoured for this kind of thing?

And a really nice sand pattern down on the firm damp sand.  There were few footprints at that hour so I was able to choose a nice section.  As you know I photograph sand patterns frequently.  I’ve been thinking of collaging ‘holes’ (see previous post)  and lines (as usual) with other textures for which the potential of ‘stitch’ is never far away  (see recent posts on the glorious straight stitch, and some of my pre-1988 mixed media works )    In the last week or so I’ve discovered the inspiring mixed media work of Debbie Lyddon  whose treatment of coastal landscape in fabric, paint and stitch is truly fabulous.