Back Beach, Bernard, Maine; July 16

I spend hours picking up stones on cobble beaches, admiring the patterns, looking for stripes, feeling the difference between coarse- and fine-grained granite, and trying to imagine the geological processes and depth of time require to produce them.

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Contained in galleries: the Beachcombing series

I spend hours picking up stones on cobble beaches, admiring the patterns, looking for stripes, feeling the difference between coarse- and fine-grained granite, and trying to imagine the geological processes and depth of time require to produce them.