A weekend by the seaside is always a treat. We have just finished restoring the bedrooms at the West Bay flat and it looks amazing, so I treated myself to this painting by Avril Larsson of the Bridport Art Society. The colours and composition will work brilliantly against the white walls
West Bay enjoys East-West light, making the coastline (and our little flat) especially beautiful at sunrise and sunset. The beach is a mix of pebbles and sand, and the huge bright golden cliffs full of fossils and deep faults look as though they could have been designed by Gaudi. On Sunday morning we threw on some layers and headed East along the beach towards Bradstock before the sun was fully up. The fishing boats were just leaving the harbour, the tide was out and the low sun caught the textures beautifully. It evoked Paul Weller’s haunting lyric, ‘Like pebbles on a beach, kicked around, displaced by feet…’
Baz spotted a Peregrine Falcon from the beach. We saw it land on a high outcrop and we climbed the steep mud path up East Cliff to get a better view. We found a spot to watch him for a while before he started to take the air through his wings and he took off towards West Bay, probably unseen by families and dog walkers on the beach
There is no season when I don’t love to be beside the seaside, but the soft autumn sun is a reminder to us all to make the most of every possible day outside and lodge the colours in our minds to carry us through to spring, like an animal feasting before a winter sleep
Poshbird with Passion 
Is this West Bay in Dorset? I love it, used to go there a lot when I was young as I had relatives in Somerset. Took my son there when he was a toddler. Gorgeous beach. FAB picture too.
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It is a lovely spot, isn’t it. We love it there too
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I especially love your new painting – wow! Photographs are wonderful and the peregrine falcon is quite a catch. We are now heading into winter. It’s not really cold but it looks wet, dark and miserable. Jealous. 🙂
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Thanks Kerry. I wish I had a better pic of the falcon, but they are not easy to get, especially when you are near the edge of a dodgy cliff! It’s suddenly getting very dank and foggy here now too, but we must make the most of every good day we get x
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I got a shot of a Cooper’s Hawk who was resting on my tree but usually it’s really hard to get them. Today is better, weather wise. Hurrah!
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