{"id":1043,"date":"2010-06-07T09:43:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T14:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2010-06-07T09:51:46","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T14:51:46","slug":"beach-offerings-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Beach Offerings Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am so glad I took my camera – in fact I’m rarely without it\u00a0these days when I walk on the beach.\u00a0 The past week has produced some unusual beach offerings – these have quite elaborate and individually styled, not just a mere plonking down of a dead something some flowers and food.\u00a0 About 10 days ago there was a group of two small goat heads and one severed partial leg in the sand.\u00a0 Gruesome, and I have no idea why.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Two young goat's heads and one partial leg - no signs of any other parts.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A few days later this interesting arrangement was down near the incoming tide, right where I usually access the beach – there was no one in sight, \u00a0but it cannot have been there long.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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In the early morning light, the orientation, which always feels to me to be the same, is clearly to the south east more or less… towards the Atlantic a couple of hundred miles away from this Montevideo beach at Carrasco. Here it is technically the River Plate, but very wide even at this point and behaves like ocean.<\/p>\n

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This poignant one above speaks to me of babies, one male and the other female, and very young I’d judge\u00a0by the feeding bottles and the dummies\/comfortors\/chupas in pink and blue. Among the flowers are pink and blue ribbons. Are these babies on the way, have they been born and this is a thakyou gesture? Have they been lost? Pulled at my heartstrings, anyway.<\/p>\n

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And then today, this one, again as in all the pics the heads of the sacrificed birds are all nearest the sea with the bodies arranged in a general SE direction. What was different was the 7 or 8 bags of food (corn in one, beans another, something unidentifiable that looked like stew, and so on) arranged in a circle around them, and a sandy hollow near every bag with the remains of a candle sitting in the sand.\u00a0\u00a0 Near the white hen’s head was a jar of something that looked like candied honey – but forgive me – I did not stoop to smell it even, let alone dip my finger in …..<\/p>\n

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Now that I have been paying serious attention for a while, you can imagine my photo files are expanding and include striking differences in among common themes.\u00a0 Later this week I will be travelling for a while but will resume my coastal walks when I return – hope I don’t miss something amazing.\u00a0 I feel like begging one of my friends to take a camera to the beach each day while I’m away ….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am so glad I took my camera – in fact I’m rarely without it\u00a0these days when I walk on the beach.\u00a0 The past week has produced some unusual beach offerings – these have quite elaborate and individually styled, not just a mere plonking down of a dead something some flowers and food.\u00a0 About 10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uxpF-gP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alisonschwabe.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}