Cattle Point ligthhouse with Lopez Island in the background
Lighthouse-Cattle Point
- February 19th, 2009
- Posted in City Daily Photo, Friday Harbor, San Juan Island, State Parks
- Tagged Add new tag, american camp, Cattle Pass, lopez island, san juan channel, South beach
Woo hoo! How fun to see San Juan Island represented in the CDPB community! Glad our Pacific Northwest region has another photoblogger joining to showcase the beauty of this area of the globe. Hope you are having fun with your blog and getting to know others in our City Daily Photo family. I’ll look forward to keeping tabs on the sights up your way. Best,
-Kim
Seattle Daily Photo
Beautiful scenery, and beautiful, beautiful colours!
No idea where you are but another island dweller is good for me. Lovely misty image. Belated welcome to the CPD.Think your island is a little bigger than mine though.
Thanks for the comment, always appreciate to hear from another islander and we are new to the blog…..our fair isle is located just east of Victoria BC. approx 65 sq miles.
Beautiful photo of Cattle Point! I’m writing to ask if I can use the photo alongside my poem, “Where Currents Meet,” which will be published online in “A Sense of Place: The Washington State Geospatial Poetry Anthology”? A Sense of Place will feature, via Google Earth, poems by Washington poets about a particular location in the state. A reader/visitor can call up a Google Earth map of Washington and see a map of “pins” all over the state. Each pin can be zoomed in upon and opened to a location and a full text, attributed poem with a photograph of the location as well
Here’s the poem: (originally published in the Bellingham Review: http://www.wwu.edu/bhreview/i61-austen.shtml)
Where Currents Meet
Cattle Point, San Juan Island
See? Even at slack water a churn
of contradictions. Stay back, instinct
instructs. But from here, more beauty than danger.
Water is its own gravity, light
itself a lure. Lean in to the patterned
motion, ripples to the north, standing waves
to the south, the steady shove—
toward what? Chaos that comforts? Nothing here
is expected to make sense—contrary
intentions, even the charts
predict this. An improvisation
under the surface, revealed
by the interplay of light: water
with texture. Whatever invites attention
prayer enough for now. You could wait your whole
life for sense to take shape. Does it matter,
from here, whether those are seals or
bull kelp? Keep looking.
None of the poets are receiving any payment for the use of the poems, so I’m hoping you’ll be willing to allow us to use your photo free of charge as well.
Thank you for considering this request, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Regards,
Elizabeth Austen
Well, it is probably too late but yes, you can use the photo. Sorry I have been indisposed and away from the site for way too long.
john