Last saturday I spent on the beach at Ocean City MD – well on the island Assateague, a beautiful national park barrier island off the coast of MD. Lots of wild horses on the island the result of having been left there, source uncertain, years and years ago, Some are culled annually, the weak and very old, and healthy surplus animals are sold tothe public, to keep the population of them in healty balance. And of course facilities in a US national park are great, as usual. The water was freezing but I can now technically claim to have dipped into the N Atlantic up to my midriff. On the beach itself the temperature was in the high 80’s, a warm breeze, the adults got a bit burnt but the little ones didn’t, and it was beautiful. On monday I arrived in Uruguay where it has been raining these past few days, and it is cold. Really cold. This is a country which a month ago was debating how far and how harshly the neccessary power cuts would have to be imposed…. and now DH tells me the country is now exporting surplus electricity to Argentina. Floods are taking their toll in the usual places with the usual very poor victims.

For some time I have had a bunch of see-thru folders lined up to help organise newsletters, and boxes for the magazines, even an extra bookcase to be assembled. this work is now in progress as I mull over the next works I have in mind for looming deadlines, mostly for opportunities in Australian juried events. Also I am hoping to submit an entry into Visions, this year.