The battle between land and sea is as timeless as water and stone, as fresh as the latest wave. Small surprise that these ramparts, valiantly persisting at Land's End, are solid granite.
Could we but view the earth with the perception of ages, we might see landforms ebb and flow like the tide. Hadrosaurs once strolled this shore in the shadow of volcanic cones. While lava sometimes broke forth in violent eruption, much rested deep within the earth, cooling over generations of dinosaur lives. Kindred minerals linked year by year to form speckled crystals later discerned by naked human eyes. Dinosaurs foundered, horses and camels came and went as these monoliths were gradually excavated. And after today these splendid massifs will never be the same again.
Today's brief sojourn into tropical latitudes gave us the time to contemplate not only the rock of ages, but also the ephemeral nature of many a brilliantly-colored desert blossom.
