LINCOLN CITY, Oregon    Marlene Parkes
  
   GREENHOUSE LIVING    Diane Buccheri

   SALT AND EARTH    Tasha Graff

   SHE SPEAKS TO ME    Diane Buccheri

   WE TOUCH HER     Diane Buccheri

   TALKING WITH DOLPHINS     John Stuart Reid, Jack Kassewitz

   FLYING IN THE DARK     Lance Willis
 
   FROM BOYS 2 MEN    Marshall Lubin

   SAILOR    Moro Buddy Bohn

   ECHOS FROM THE SEA     Melba Milak

   NEIGHBORHOOD DOCK PARTY    Cat Campbell

   BONE METER    Cassandra Passerelli

   SYMPHONY OF THE OCEAN    Jeff Beyl

   OCEAN WRITING CONTEST WINNER    Cameron M. Smith

   OCEAN PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST WINNER    Suzanne Hunter  


A glimpse into this issue . . .




  

   TALKING WITH DOLPHINS

   John Stuart Reid, CymaScope.com
   Jack Kassewitz, SpeakDolphin.com
   


   Talking, with dolphins! Not to dolphins –– with dolphins –– physically,
   here and now.

   Their language is a sono-pictorial communication, a complex visual and
   auditory language.

   And, dolphins are learning human language, communicating with researcher
   Jack Kassewitz of SpeakDolphin.com in simple and complex sentences involving
   nouns and verbs. Jack Kassewitz is working with sound specialist John Stuart Reid
   of Sonic-Age.com to understand their communication with sound images.


   Read the Article

    Photograph © SpeakDolphin.com








  


   LINCOLN CITY, OREGON

   photographed by Marlene Parkes



   Road’s End is otherworldly in energy and beauty, untouched,
   accessible only a few times a year during the lowest minus tide.
   When the tide turns, it comes in quickly.
 


   See the Story in Photographs



   Photograph © Marlene Parkes, MParkesArt.com









 
  GREENHOUSE LIVING
  Water & Sun, Glass & Plants
  
   by Diane Buccheri


   The sun shines upon the ocean, its warmth penetrating and spreading,
   then radiates out into the air, warming the air and earth, warming us.
   This time of year I am warmer here along the coast than inland, away
   from the ocean with its retention of heat.

   Rays stream through the window, penetrate and surround me and the air,
   the floor, the walls, the furniture. What if the entire wall was glass? What if
   every wall and the roof were glass? Could we live in a glass house? Plants
   thrive in greenhouses summer, winter, day and night, in all climates. Can we?




    Read the Article









  FLYING IN THE DARK
 
   written and photographed by Lance Willis
 
   The hydrothermal chimney appeared out of the blackness, an apparition
   bathed in halogen light. Mark Spear fired his thrusters and maneuvered
   his craft closer. He wanted a sample. The fragile, stalagmite-like chimney
   stood 20 meters high. Clouds of black smoke spewed from its crown, and
   hundreds of white shrimp crawled around its base. He reached out with his
   mechanical arm and with his steel pincer he gently grasped a chunk of
   basalt laying at the smoker’s base. A valuable specimen. He eased the
   rock over his specimen tray and gingerly set it down. The chimney stirred.   

   An almost imperceptible shiver shook its length. Cracks appeared in its base,
   and with a dreamlike slowness it collapsed in a swirling cloud of carbonate ash.

   Read the Story


   Photograph © Lance Willis
  

And so much more!