Category: Beaches
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The sun was setting and shining shyly on the waves after hiding all day, and then this! Rainbow after Isaac, Ormond Beach, Forida.
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Rain showers over the ocean. The outer edges of a tropical storm are headed our way. Some people break out the champagne when a hurracane is imminent, (after all faithful and diligent preparations have been completed, of course). Others worry for days and nights in advance. When I was a kid…
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I walk the line… Sandpipers, St Augustine Beach.
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Where the Cape ends in a fantastic spiral, there is Provincetown, surrounded by water on three sides and shimmering with a luminosity that bounces off the sky and the land and the water. This unique juxtaposition of ocean, sand, bay, and light is one of the reasons that Cape Cod is so…
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Every afternoon between 4 and 5 o'clock, it rains. Like a tropical paradise, it lasts 40 minutes or an hour and it's over. Everything is so green and happy, especially the mosquitos! @#%$&^* Even so, it is beautiful and so lovely to have the rain. St. Augustine Beach, between…
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This was my favorite beach to walk on Cape Cod. If the weather was warm and the tide was out and I had a buddy with me, I might swim there too. When you follow the sandbars at Head of the Meadow Beach as far as they will take you, it feels…
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Every relationship that we begin will one day end. Pelicans high in the sky, only a moment shared and gone. Without a photograph, I might forget, until I see others like them on another day. Fading light, moon rising, everything constantly changing. This world is a feast for the eyes and…
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Balancing on a surfboard with a paddle is challenging enough. This guy takes his dog along! It is pure joy watching them. The furry one, in his excitement, manages to walk the length of the board, going through his companion's legs to get to the back! Only once did he knock…
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A new day begins. Another chance to get it right, get it done, or maybe to just be. Be in the day, really in the day, today. No worrying, no planning, and definitely no panicking. Picnicking maybe, but no panicking. Just for today. And maybe tomorrow too! (Yesterday's Sunrise,…
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Determined to get into the ocean yesterday evening after work to cleanse myself of an oncoming summer cold, I decided to assess the blatant warnings: Blowing sand – storm eminent. Fish jumping – possible sharks(!) One surfer near me and some swimmers farther down the beach – ? No lightning or thunder.…
