Saltmarsh Tapestry (5) Size:41cm x 61cm, 16.0inches x 24.0inches both graceful and plaintive on

both graceful and plaintive on a moody day at Carmel Bay beach in California

I love its fine filigree foliage and the soft down  of its silky hairs

with sea purslane

knowing that you are seeing part of a wall painted almost 2000 years ago in the Roman city of Pompeii

A lone strand of seaweed thrown up by the ocean

Saltmarsh Tapestry (5) Size:41cm x 61cm, 16.0inches x 24.0inches both graceful and plaintive onHerbaceous border of the natural world. Marsh samphire, Salicornia europaea, and annual seablite, Suaeda maritima, glow amongst the grey green of sea purslane, Halimione portulacoides, and seedheads of sea lavender, Limonium vulgare.