my happy place

still processing the whole christmas experience (and not really done cooking yet), so in the meantime, some shots of one of my favorite places in the world - møn's klint. when we got to the bottom of all those steps and onto that stone beach, my molecules hummed in perfect alignment. more soon.

a perfect day

the sun was shining brightly on the white cliffs of møn's klint

i took the pooka with me and let her use the D60

she shows promise as a budding photographer

this is one of hers

we took along a few friends to show off their new tails in their native habitat

and a couple of their friends

from resurrection fern 

and one from geninne 

it felt like there was some kind of poetry

in a stone from mexico meeting the baltic seashore

doesn't it look strikingly at home?

and there's somehow even more poetry in

geninne's stone meeting margie's stones on this shore.

and i felt somehow poetic for being the link between them.

the whole group got together on a rather eyeball looking treetrunk

see?

you know i couldn't resist.

we took along this friend too.

isn't he sweet?

sabin made him at her afterschool program.

i spotted a few more seeing stones (thanks jules!)

a few of them may have accompanied me home

i loved wearing my wellies...

and sabin had on hers too.

they're our only matching accessory.

more tomorrow about this...

see if you can guess what it is

the song of the rocks

jason captured this short video of the song of the rocks on the shore at møn's klint. that sound is magic.

as i snapped photos yesterday, i longed for a video camera. so glad jason managed to capture it. 

by the way, weird that i couldn't post this from blogger in draft, but had to post without it and go in and edit (thereby entering "old blogger"  and being able to publish it). hope they're gonna fix that.

møn's klint was fabulous

despite the fact that it was already 3 p.m. by the time we got there and that sunset feel was in the air,

we braved the 479 stairs down to the beach below at møn's klint.

there were natural wonders on the beach, 

things like fish eggs

photogenic flotsam and jetsam

fossil squid tentacles

and we had to take home some of the beautiful driftwood as souvenirs

(we made husband carry it)

there had been more winter landslides

so there were mounds of chalk changing the shoreline

and many new chalk rocks creating a gorgeous contrast with the dark stones.

the stones sang their music as the waves rolled in over them.

heavenly.

the cliffs are magnificent, even in the twilight

and then, because it was getting quite dark,

we made our way up the other staircase (574 stairs) and home

but not before we had a beautiful burger to tide us over for the trip...

5 places i love - #4 møns klint

down on the little island of møn, just south of sjælland, the island we live on, there is a fantastic phenomenon of nature called møns klint. it's huge, chalk cliffs and no matter what time of year, it's a wonderful place to go (if you're dressed properly for it). every once in awhile, a big bunch of it falls into the sea and that's a bit dangerous, but they're pretty good at knowing when the danger is high and they close the stairways then. because yes, there are stairways--two of them to get down to the beach. we counted 574 steps on one of them, but lost count on the other one.

 

these shots are from last february when we went. i haven't been there yet this summer, but looking at these shots gave me a hankering for it that i will no doubt have to satisfy in the near future.

there was a big landslide nearly 2 years ago, you can still see how milky chalky the water is in this shot.

when we reached the bottom of these stairs, our legs were like jello and we had to sit down for awhile before we could begin our walk on the beach.

here's sabin, poignantly resting on a beautiful piece of driftwood.

she's wearing her snowsuit.

you can go any time, as long as you're dressed properly for it.

when we're there, we search for these lovelies on the rocky shore.

they're fossils of small squid.

they're a beautiful amber color.

they say you can find amber too, but sadly i never have.

the other thing we search for is rocks with holes in them.

or with indentations that you can put a candle in.

and then we schlep them up the gazillion stairs.

but the last time, we seemed to find a lot of stone penises.

aren't they funny?