The Rising Gulls: Grace in Flight Above Lake Erie

Over the still waters of Lake Erie, The Rising Gulls lift from their weathered posts, wings stretching wide against the muted sky. One ascends with confidence, its body poised in upward motion, while another follows in perfect rhythm—an echo of the lake’s eternal call to rise and roam.
The wooden posts, once their place of balance and pause, now mark the threshold between stillness and motion. With every beat of their wings, the gulls bridge the quiet earth below and the boundless air above. Their movements are neither hurried nor hesitant but filled with a natural grace, as though the lake itself has whispered them into flight.
In this suspended moment, the gulls embody more than ascent; they are symbols of renewal, of release, and of the timeless dance between rest and motion. It is a scene both fleeting and eternal, a portrait of life’s constant rising from what was toward what is yet to be.