On the Hopkins marine station beach, scores of glistening harbor seals have pulled themselves onto the sand. You can see them through the chain link fence along the PG trail. I want to think they are females giving birth but I couldn't quite tell. There were some small ones and some large ones. A few were playing in the waves and the rest above the tide line.

I walked along the trail avoiding dogs on leashes, watching for Winter birds arriving from the north.

It was a beautiful day and yet my mind was restless trying to create a story accounting for the harbor seals on the beach.