The devil is in the detail
Mistress of the beach
Drifting, swirling on the tide.
Fronds that tease tiny fish
Then lie stranded on the shore-
A frothy, green petticoat.
Jen’s photo in the Weekly Photo Challenge this week is a real beauty. I can’t hope to compete, but I did want to share with you a few of the details of my recent trip to the Algarve. As half expected, it was unbelievably hot, and much of the time was spent with my toes in the water.
A weekend at home in the UK will be an entirely different prospect. Perhaps I shall relish the cool. Whatever your weekend brings, I hope it’s a good one. Join me on Monday and we’ll find somewhere to walk. But first, pop in on Cate with six words?
restlessjo 
Such lovely prose Jo! And The Algarve looks like it is experiencing the same temps that we are having here in Darwin. At least you had a beautiful, croc free beach. We don’t dare go in the water here 😱🐊
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The odd jellyfish is enough to scare me, Lisa 🙂 Sorry I’m late here. I was just posting an emotional farewell to a friend.
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And what a lovely friend she was
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Gorgeous day at the beach. That blue colour is just piercing.
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It was too hot everywhere but on the beach. Good job I love it 🙂 🙂
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I just picture this in my mind… Sigh… 🙂
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A gorgeous looking day. And a nice find at the beach.
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I seem to have brought the heat back with me from the Algarve, Draco. 30C is most unusual in the UK! The trains stop running and everyone gets grumpy 🙂 🙂
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Thank you very much 🙂 🙂
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Beautiful warmth coming from your photos, Jo. I love your description. Looks like a great day– not sure where Algarve is… but will look it up. 🙂
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Hiya Jane! 🙂 Thanks a lot! Tavira is in the south of Portugal. I usually do tag, but I forgot on this occasion. Must have been the heat 🙂 🙂
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Lovely beach photos, Jo. I enjoyed your poem and the ‘frothy green petticoat’. My MiL told us in Skype today that 33C is forecast next week. 😳
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Morning lovely lady! 🙂 🙂 No escaping is there? It was 37 in Tavira 😦 What usually happens, Ad, is that when we get a heatwave the north east coast is swathed in coastal fog! I’ll let you know 🙂 🙂
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I love your imagery of the seaweed as “frothy green petticoat.” It almost looks like someone’s summer dress has been shredded and left on the shore.
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It was jewel bright, AG. Quite glamorous undergarments 🙂 🙂
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☺️ Ooh la la!
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RJo – There is something so calming about photos of sand, and yours are artistic as well. Ahhhh, peacefulness.
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The beaches were very busy by their normal standards, Susan, but as you can see I found a bit of space. 🙂 🙂 I’m missing them already- just, not the heat! Thanks a lot 🙂
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Well done. I love the exercise of distilling a thought down to 6 words–or in the case of Twitter, 140 characters. I use that with students to teach writing.
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Thanks so much, Jacqui. I never manage to stop at 6 and that’s where the photos come in handy 🙂 🙂 Happy Sunday and thanks for stopping by.
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The beach looks marvelous Jo. I can almost feel the water on my feet. Hoping the transition back home is not too harsh weather wise. Have a great week ahead!
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Love all the gentle colours in these photos.
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I was treading very gently too, Ann. Feet in the water was the best place to be 🙂 How’s things, hon?
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All good just completely lacking time to write posts. Trying not to fret about it. 🙂
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Never fret about writing posts. Life is so much more important. Sending hugs, darlin. 🙂
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Welcome back, Jo and I wonder if you didn’t bring some of the warmth with you as yesterday the hottest it has been so far! Lovely photos and poem, love the ‘frothy green petticoats’.
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Thanks, Annika 🙂 🙂 It was bizarre- mid 20’s here yesterday, with a warm wind. Gone again today. Ah, well 😦
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Jo, your beautiful beach photos are just what I needed this morning, as it blows a gale outside. It’s so chilly, but at least the rain and fog have cleared. Thank you for a taste of summer.
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Not long now, Carol 🙂 :I’m trying to persuade our English one to stay around a while. Yesterday was the perfect day- mid 20’s with a warm wind. I thought I was still in the Algarve but the scenery somehow looked wrong. 🙂 Back to normal today 😦
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