WEDNESDAY'S TIDE

The morning was cloudy, and the wind was blowing in the bay, so the atmosphere looked much colder than it really was. I mean, the weather wasn't cold at all. It was pretty warm and humid actually.

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It was raining heavily the night before, and the tide was exceptionally high in the morning, so the narrow beachside road was partially flooded.
In this opening shot, you can see one of the small hotels in that area and the lovely little lake in front of it.
Beachside properties always tend to get built closer to the sea each year, often through dubious or completely illegal means, so this tendency of the sea to come closer to them can only make their owners happy, I suppose.
My Wednsdey Walk started here. My car wasn't parked far from the place shown in this shot.

Here you can see a fairly large summer advert, partially detached from the structure that holds it, waving like a sail on the wind. The GIF was created with twenty consecutive shots I took in the morning after buying some stuff in the supermarket on the opposite end of town.

Here you can see the same scene frozen in a single shot.

A bit further down the road, a white bear or mouse, can't tell you what species exactly this is, was advertising the ice cream to rare passer-bays.

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I was standing under the pine tree when I took this and the previous photograph.

Here you can see the needles that fell from that tree right into the long and narrow pudlle that is actually the beachside road. The dry, brown needles fall slowly and constantly, each day some of them end up on the ground around the pine, but the green ones in the center of the picture were ripped off by the wind that was much stronger the night before.

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The wind, the waves, and the tide brought a bit of driftwood to the beach.

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The smooth, washed-out branches looked like interesting organic sculptures from a flooded contemporary art museum. In each of these shots, the driftwood is the same but the crawling waves create something different in every picture.
The water flows like time while the accidental artwork stands still on the sand.

This wide shot shows a larger chunk of the coastal scenery.

Some pieces of driftwood looked like rotting carcasses of mysterious creatures from the deepest depths of the sea.

Here you can take another look at the fluttering advert introduced earlier in the post. The wind was getting stronger when the twenty-four consecutive shots I used to make this GIF were taken. In the following photograph ...

... the same advert along with other moving elements of the scene are still and frozen.

Everything is moving again here.

In this photograph, I zoomed in on the summer terrace of a restaurant about a hundred meters further down the road.

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I don't know what this thing is. I mean, it certainly has some function in summer, but right now, under the cloudy November sky, it looks like some sculpture or a symbol of an alien civilization we don't know anything about. It looks kinda dramatic in this shot.

Here you can see the silver poplar tree across the road. Populus alba is the scientific name of this plant.

On the young shoots, the lower surface of the leaves is pale gray or white. It really looks like glittering silver when the foliage is flickering in the wind.

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