Category: Memories

Nothing Earth-shattering to report at the moment. I did venture out to local grocery mart this morning, it wasn’t very busy and they have their act together. Wow, I’m pretty boring. I probably should be using the time a bit more constructively, and I will, but at this moment I’m just gliding through the day. I have been devoting some of the spare time to the gardening. I’m pleased to say that all seem to being well, and I think the butternut squashes my be starting to bud. I need to another survey, maybe later in the week, and share their statuses for posterity. The thing with as many plants as we are currently cultivating – it actually takes some time to water them all!

The story behind the photo: This was taken while driving around Newport, RI, just in an exploratory type of drive around – something we used to do quite a bit on the weekends. Anyways, although I don’t remember the exact location I do know it was along a tiny strip of road with a waterway on either side. We decided to pull over and I took the shot. I took notice of the water in the puddle which I thought would look cool, along with the sailboat and further away, the mansion on the hill. Side note: just around the rock in the front to the right was a little cove where I discovered a scrawny white egret searching for food. I took photos of him too. There was also a man in waders clamming around the water – I cropped him out of this shot but do have some of him doing this which I may share at a later date.

Not going to be the typical Memorial Day. Still sailing into the unofficial start of summer ⛵️. Possibly more later. I’ve also made the full shot of this one available now on the store.

I do think it’s rather interesting that some older things are starting to come back, like we’re back in the 50s – drive-ins, carhops, even the milkman deliveries!

Had a really nice day yesterday – was good to be out on a deck facing the bay and just lapping up the sun and the ocean wind. Felt blessed to be able to have a chance to experience that. I did develop a little bit on sunburn on my arms however it’s not too bad – been a while since the sun had gotten me like that. Was also able to get some firewood while there for the fire pit which I definitely want to start using more and more. Also was given a lupine to plant and grow out front – she has amazing lupines, apparently they seem to like the salt air, but hopefully it’ll do okay here. It looked a bit wilted when I got it back home but I planted it and gave it a big drink so hopefully the little guy will bounce back. Everything else meanwhile is starting to do pretty well, so our green thumbs are actually somewhat green!

It’s going to be a wonderful day today in New England with temps in the high 70s. I plan on spending some time down by a friend’s beach house this afternoon, social distancing and all of course. What plans do you have for today?

I’ve literally taken lots of photos of the Nubble over the years. This is one of them.

Figured I’d play around with some editing on this one. The original is very green, I do like how I framed this one though with the real swan in front of the swan boat. And yes, this picture is from a couple years ago. I like to say this is from another timeline. One in which we should be in right now. Sci-fi geek in me.

But yesterday was a good day. Not only did we finally get the fire pit going, but we LD finished up some gardening and I got the BBQ going for some corn and turkey burgers.

The story behind the photo: This property lines Ocean Avenue in Cape Arundel, Maine, in the Summer Colony Historic District – just a bit down the road from the Bush Compound. Coming just around a bend I was greeted by this cool looking house sitting just above the rocky crags. I’ve heard tales that it was built by a prosperous sea captain back in the day and chose the location to retire. I mean, if that was me I’d do it too. I can only imagine what looking out into the sea from the back of this wonderful manse must be like.

Thanks for featuring another one of my photographs NECN (New England Cable News).

Today was a pretty good day – I installed both the firepit and put together a new metal planter for some more plants, a bunch of my accounts are starting to see some development, and the webstore where you can buy prints is up and running. I’m always adding pictures to that so keep checking it, or if there’s something you want that I took let me know and I’ll see about adding that as well.

Another one from the archives. This is a really beautiful place at that sits at the top of a hill and looks down into the bay below. Everyday I try to set a schedule and try to accomplish 2 or 3 things for the day, otherwise I end up in a sort of funk for the day.

I keep having these amalgamation dreams – guess some processing goes on in my head during that time. I woke up a little angry today – part of the process. Did spend a bunch of time out in the yard assisting with plantings which was nice. Really just a day to relax and lay low and enjoy the sunshine.

Really starting to get tired of this pandemic crap. Meanwhile the next door neighbor is banging away on his home made patio project that he’s been working on since spring of last year. But I’m going to be in a good mood today! Did spend part of the day planting various plants and flowers with some more to do tomorrow including tubers. Got my severance check and new debit card (still trying to get some money on that from the UI dept. – looks to be a bit of a pain). And some of our friends swung by and visited for a quick socially distanced visit!