January 1st 2010 was the stormiest day I’ve ever spent on a beach with wind gusts reaching up to 70 miles per hour. I snapped this photo during a brief moment of relative calm but when the tide came up a few more feet the wind speed surged and hundreds of driftwood beach logs began rolling through the surf like toothpicks. Very dangerous toothpicks…
Posted as part of Sue’s A Word A Week: Wind.
Northwest Frame of Mind 
Beautiful and I love the energy of the ocean and the wind.
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Thanks Ruth, I feel the same way when I’m by the ocean 🙂
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I’ve spent most all of my life on the beach. I’ve learned to never turn your back on the ocean, especially in the NW.
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Words to live by if you spend any time by the water. This ocean would have crushed us in a minute even though it looked so pretty.
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I love seeing nature’s majestic power, even though I understand the danger. There is just something mesmerizing about it to me.
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I agree, the wind and waves can capture all of my attention too. Thanks for the visit today.
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cool picture in general – and really captured the word! I also love all the differences in the wood in the fore ground – great shot!
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Thanks, I’m happy to hear you like this one and that you think it captured the word “wind”. 🙂
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We’d read in travel guides that sleeping on the beach in the PNW is a no-no, but didn’t really appreciate what that meant until we saw your version of drift-wood! Here, its an odd plank or stick – not piles of whole tree trunks. Awesome!
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Oh yes, you have to be careful on our beaches! The logs are fun to walk along but you need to watch each step incase they roll while you’re on them. 🙂
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Great shot. So west coast.
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Thanks Deb. The west coast definitely has a unique look with all of our big logs.
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Storms can be frightening. Thank you for capturing this moment “of calm”. A very special photo!
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I think the few calm moments are what helped all of us stay calm ourselves. The wind pushed the tide up from the beach right to the cabins but we managed to have fun all the same.
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