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Category: Environmental

  • Where The Cape Ends…

        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…

  • Big Old Barn

        There is something romantic about old barns. They are so often featured in works of art, that we might forget what they are really about – days that begin before dawn and much hard work.   You like to imagine the days are satisfying, but like any type of work, or anyone's life…

  • Reflection

        After a long day, a soft reflection.   Too tired to make any sense of it!    

  • A Very Good Year

        The year that this photo was shot was a very good year for whale watching. "Very good," being defined as lots and lots of whales.   What's a very good year for you? Lots and lots of…?   Fill in the blank.   Sometimes our most difficult years turn out to be our…

  • 55% Chance of Rain

        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…

  • Water And Sand And Light

        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…

  • It Would Be Fun

        So alert and ready for life, hanging around marinas and boats.   Were we ever birds or dolphins or whales?   It seems like it would be so much fun.    

  • Being Green

        In Florida, it's easy being green!      

  • Another Moon

        Another full moon come and gone. Slipping to half, quarter, a sliver and gone.   Juliet tells Romeo, "Swear not by the inconstant moon."   But the lunar phases have a predictable inconstancy.   If you had phases like the moon, what would be your full moon phase?   Half moon?   New…

  • Burden of Joy

        Is the oak tree burdened by the spanish moss that adorns it?   My dad used to say to us, "You are the joy of my declining years." (He was in his 40's when he said this!)   Twenty odd years earlier, he was a young father of 4 children under 4 years…