a road without earth's road-dust

[raven]

This is probably the last time I will ever live in my parents' house for a prolonged period of time. (That is, two months rather than say, two weeks.) Even with that said, I'm about to run off to Oxford and then to San Francisco and then to Dublin and then to Edinburgh. The times they are a-changin' and all of that, and it's something to note, I think, because this August, my family will have lived here for ten years. (I was born in Liverpool proper - on Hope Street - was there until 1989, then lived on the Wirral for nine years, and then here. Basically, we moved around but I've always lived on Merseyside.) And even if I don't want to stay for good, I've loved living here. So, last week I waited for a sunny day, took the camera and went for a walk.

First of all, a sand dune.



I remember the day after we'd moved, I went for a walk just to explore, and had the extraordinary experience of climbing what I thought was a hill, unthinking, unknowing, and just finding the sea, just there, all laid out below.



The wind turbines on Liverpool docks, looking south from where I am.



Still looking south.



The tide was coming in. Unlike in Southport, where the tide only comes in thirty days a year, here, only five miles futher south, you get quite the variation. It amuses me that the bookshop's bestselling book is undoubtedly the little book of tide tables.



More wind turbines. I kind of like them.



Oh, yeah, by the way? The National Trust are dorks.

And that's it, I guess. Pretty soon I return to a city with two rivers and very few bridges, and a very different kind of natural beauty. And this time it's likely more permanent. But, I lived here, I will always be from this place, there will always be something of it in me. (Beyond a tendency to gabble when I'm nervous and call everyone "love", I mean.) Something of the saltwater and distance.

Comments

[outintherain.livejournal.com]

Coming to my island eh? ;)

Watcha getting up to in Dublin? :)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure at the moment, it's still being figured out. My mother wants to go, and I have no objection at all to going along!

[outintherain.livejournal.com]

Ah! Well enjoy! Beware the Luas! :p

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

that's amazing. doesn't actually look all that different from the beaches in florida..

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Feels different, though, trust me. I was in Daytona a few years ago; it was a world apart.

[hips-lips-tits.livejournal.com]

well, that is because those pictures are your beach, at your home. everything is more special when you have an emotional attachment to it.
;)

or maybe that's not the reason, i'm just taking a guess, but if that were the reason i'd know exactly how you feel.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I'm jealous of your travel plans. (Besides SF, I mean!) I've always wanted to see both Dublin and Edinburgh. Will I fit in your carry-on when you leave?

Your beach is lovely, oh. What a perfect place to grow up.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

YES. And there will be room for a pack of sandwiches and some milk, too!

[clubhopper15.livejournal.com]

Beautiful beach. Am going to Oxford at the end of July, btw. Decided I just have to look around at colleges

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Ahhh! If I am around, I will come and look after you!

[clubhopper15.livejournal.com]

Aahhh! You are all very kind. Slasheuse volunteered too. I'm leaving for the US tomorrow (in London on the way back home) but will keep in touch with you both. It'd be so nice to see you - if not I will at least give you a call. :)

[absinthe-shadow.livejournal.com]

It is simply TOO CRUEL of the universe that during this vac you and I are both going Dublin and both going to Edinburgh but at different times. Rarrrrrrgh!

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Raaargh! When are you going to Dublin?

[tau_sigma]

I know I said this on facebook, but beautiful. (And it amused me that I had to consciously stop myself italicising words on fb, because I'm so used to it over here. Heh.) Just ... I have no more words. *sigh*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Heee. Did we go down there when you visited? If we didn't, we should've!

[marymac.livejournal.com]

Oooo pretty. I love sand dunes.

Seconding the warning about the LUAS. Also if you're taking buses have the right change, they use machines only.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I will probably need much more advice closer to the time!

[snowballjane.livejournal.com]

Yay for the beach! It was a long bike ride for us Maghull kids, but it was always worth it for that first twinkling sight of the water.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

It's so beautiful out there. So glad you liked.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

O HAI CHILDHOOD. It's actually really nice to see it looking sunny, I mostly seemed to head up to Formby on grey days. I might take pictures of my three (count 'em!) beaches just to prove a point...

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Do, do! Is much of the pretty.

(ALSO. Am I coming to see you in August, whatwhat? When are you free? Or, alternatively, do you want to come and visit in Edinburgh?)