22 October 2025

Small Boats

Leaf 186 – Reflections

 

Arvid Johansson - Fishing Boat at Sunset (1901)


Sometimes, the most relaxing thing is simply to watch the rhythms of tide and time.

 

 

Small boats

rise and fall

with the tide.

 

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Drawing

lines in the sand

– mooring ropes.

 


 

Norman Garstin - A View of Mount's Bay with the North Pier (c.1920)
Penlee House Gallery & Museum