09 April 2008

Life's a beach


Louder than gulls the little children scream

Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam;

But others fearlessly rush in, breast high,

Laughing the salty water from their mouthes--

Heroes of the nursery.


- Robert Graves

16 comments:

  1. Oh Jilly I've been away from blogging too long...just look at what you've done here. It's all simply amazing.

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  2. le bonheur est simple (encore faut-il avoir une plage, la mer et surtout un superbe beau temps ;o)) ). cela donne envie, mais je me demande si l'eau est si chaude que cela ? des petits courageux

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  3. If only that could be true all year round!

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  4. Life's a beach,when your'e a child. Smashing photo of childhood wonder.

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  5. That's wonderful. Piero is the Graves fanatic in our house....reas most of his historical and fictional work.

    Gosh your people shots lately have been stunning.

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  6. The jovial foam of childhood, how rapidly it dissipates; but only in the backwards glance, a kingdom's worth of days gone by.

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  7. I'm so jealous; water and beach and heat and sun! Please send some of this to Minneapolis! Great photo.

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  8. I can hear them laughing all the way in Naples!

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  9. Ah ah I like the title :-))

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  10. Great picture! However, being from an island I have a connection with the sea..

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  11. A wonderful excerpt for the photo. But how can you miss with snaps of children and poems from Graves?! Great post, Jilly!!

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  12. How lovely is this action shot and companion poem Jilly (I love RG). I like the framing of the figures and that blue water.
    -Kim

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  13. Excellent. I really appreciate this photograph.

    Abraham Lincoln in Brookville, Ohio.

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