I can never forget: the ever abiding, ever shifting sea – the most timeless of us all.

Alexandra de Steiguer, Facebook post, November 8, 2026

Alexandra de Steiguer is the winter caretaker and a photographer of the Isles of the Shoals off the costs of Maine and New Hampshire. She is the author of a book about the Isles that contains her photographs and her wintertime thoughts/impressions.

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… the great sea puft vp with proud disdaine,
To swell aboue the measure of his guise,
As threatning to deuoure all, that his powre despise.

Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen
white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the
great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   November 8, 2026