These are meditation rocks...informally, of course. They're on a beach about 3 miles from my house. People often sit on them and just stare out to sea. I've done that, too. I took this picture in June...it was a drizzly, foggy day and the sea had that stormy pewter color.

What's interesting about these rocks is that eleven years ago, they weren't visible. Then in the course of 3 months, we had Hurricane Bob and then the Halloween nor'easter (the one in the movie The Perfect Storm). The beach erosion after the nor'easter was unbelievable.

Where there had been no rocks, there was a 100 foot row of them, give or take. They were piled much taller than I am. They'd always been there, but had been covered with sand. It was a very disorienting sight...the entire landscape of the beach was changed. In some spots, there wasn't any beach left.

Now, eleven years later, the rocks are almost all covered with sand again and the wide expanses of beach have built back up. These are all that remain visible of that row of rocks.