{"id":1071,"date":"2011-04-22T18:32:35","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T01:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2024-01-01T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T00:41:06","slug":"low-tide-cockle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/low-tide-cockle\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Tide &#8211; Cockle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Low-Tide-Cockle-repainted1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Low-Tide-Cockle-repainted1-481x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1091\" title=\"Low-Tide-Cockle-repainted\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A second shell <\/strong>on the same beach as the&nbsp;post a couple of weeks ago. Okay, I&#8217;m hooked&nbsp;on the interesting patterns in the mud and had to do another one &#8211; especially with these&nbsp;huge tides we&#8217;ve been seeing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All was gray, green&nbsp;and brown, gray and brown &#8211; with the exception of the tiny reddish membranes on the cockle. That subtle red even reflected in the water below the shell.&nbsp;These recent&nbsp;big tides forced us take an afternoon and&nbsp;hike out Dungeness Spit, just to the west of us. Extending&nbsp;5.5 miles out&nbsp;into the Straits, it&#8217;s the longest spit in the country and if there&#8217;s a more glorious&nbsp;beach hike, I&#8217;m not sure I know where it is. After you get out there a couple of miles, it&#8217;s a very wild shore with a big straight-on&nbsp;shore break and that day it&nbsp;was approaching six feet &#8211; certainly not the same soft shoreline&nbsp;where this cockle lived it&#8217;s long quiet life of possibly 25 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This ORIGINAL painting is varnished acrylic on stretched canvas, 8&#8243; x 10&#8243; and $100 unframed.<br>A nice hardwood&nbsp;frame makes it a total of $130 and shipping adds just a bit more depending on your zone or if you take the frame. This is the original painting, NOT a print.<br><a href=\"mailto:larry@larryeifert.com\">Email <\/a>us for details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>Another view:<br><\/strong>And below is another version of the same painting I thought might be interesting to post. As I paint, sometimes I hit a big question mark. So, I scan it to have a fresh look on the computer screen. Things look completely different on a back-lit screen. It&#8217;s like seeing it for the first time, and I can go back into the studio and make some changes. The top painting is the finished effort, while this one was about half way along. Notice the&nbsp;differences?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Low-Tide-Cockle1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Low-Tide-Cockle1-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1090\" title=\"Low-Tide-Cockle\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Thanks for reading this week.<br>We now have a mobile phone app set up so if you read this from your smartphone, and&nbsp;it should look better. Tell us what you think.<br>Larry Eifert<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\">Click <\/a>here to go to the online blog this was to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\">Click <\/a>here to go to our main website &#8211; packed with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nancycherryeifert.com\">Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy&#8217;s currently working on with her photography.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-medium-font-size is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-ad2f72ca wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second shell on the same beach as the&nbsp;post a couple of weeks ago. Okay, I&#8217;m hooked&nbsp;on the interesting patterns in the mud and had to do another one &#8211; especially with these&nbsp;huge tides we&#8217;ve been seeing. All was gray, green&nbsp;and brown, gray and brown &#8211; with the exception of the tiny reddish membranes on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/low-tide-cockle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Low Tide &#8211; Cockle<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,120,125],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-painting-post","tag-easel-paintings","tag-wetlands","tag-wildlife"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Low-Tide-Cockle-repainted1-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1071"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13100,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1071\/revisions\/13100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}