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Category: Cape Cod
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To see such craft… And the dish ran away with the spoon! Which Provincetown Restaurant? Childhood rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle. The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed to see such craft, And the dish ran away with…
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It was the blue that saved my soul when I lived in this small seaside town. Perhaps there is someone there now soaking up the shimmering light and colors, healing from a loneliness she doesn't even know is hers. Provincetown Blues.
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A good day indeed. Finback Whale and Humpbacks off Cape Cod on the Dolphin Fleet out of Provincetown. Thank You!
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On our way back to the dock, leaving the Humpback whales to their stomping grounds, and the humans to forage on land. Whale watching on Cape Cod with the Dolphin Fleet. This I miss the most! More photos tomorrow! Related articles Rare footage shows five humpback whales breaching…
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What is it about the moon that speaks to us? Perhaps it is that our ancestors from long long ago admired and loved that rocky orb, and it is deep in our cells to respond somehow to its beauty. Last month's super moon, the night before the eclipse. The eclipse!…
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The clouds above us join and separate, The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns. Life is like that, so why not relax? Who can stop us from celebrating? The poet Lu Yu quoted in The Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff. Photo of celebrating…
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You've heard of armchair gardeners? I am an armchair winter person. I love snow! Photograph shot from the old Dusty Miller Inn, looking down Bradford Street, in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Reprinted from Laine's Blog, January, 2012, photo from the last century! Related articles Red Fox: Cape Cod in Winter
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What to do with the unlovable parts of ourselves? Try as we might, we can't run away or separate ourselves from our shadows. What happens if we sit and stay, like a good dog that wants to jumpandrunaround so badly, but we sit and we stay, and we don't look away? …
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In Spring and early Summer the Right whales feed just off the beaches in Provincetown. You can spend an afternoon with them, watching and listening to their unusual sounds, receiving the blessings freely offered. The ancient whales have observed human evolution for millenium, and know things that we can only guess at.…
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Water is the architect of much of our world. Beaches are rearranged daily by oceans and tides. Snow is rained upon, melts, and refreezes in amazingly similar ways. And this wonderful creature spends all of her time in water and the lines along her body are a lot…