Beaches

Just a few of the beaches I've been lucky enough to spend time on this summer. I used the theme 'beaches' as our assignment for an iPhone group that meets once a month or so, we had some creative entries. Beaches are one of my favorite places, especially when it's not windy!

Early morning walk with Christy and Rita on White Horse Beach. iPhone.

Technically a pond...

Boy skipping rocks on a beach on Cape Cod. One of our photo workshops this summer.

 Scarborough, Maine. Next 2 images as well.

 Plymouth Beach, a sunset meetup with my PDP friends.

 2 other photographers at the meetup.

On the beach with Gail.

 A special evening on Plymouth beach with Ian, birding and a sunset.

 A very frequent sighting, Ian and his birding scope.

It's all about the birds, sunset is nice, too :-)

Plymouth Beach.

Joe and I on White Horse Beach, trying to take an iPhone photo of ourselves the way younger people do, not so easy....

July 3rd Celebration at White Horse Beach, Manomet.

A long standing celebration the day before July 4th, roads are closed off at 6pm, no parking signs all over Manomet, police and ambulances at the ready and a ton of Fireworks!! Add a few thousand happy people and you have the annual 3rd of July fire and beer extravaganza.

 Joe and I walked to White Horse Beach via this little path from our home nearby.

 A full moon last night, perfect weather and low tide, fantastic!

 One of many happy Americans celebrating our Independence.

 Bonfires, ocean, full moon and fireworks!

Check out Joe's blog HERE.

Friendly policeman helping out before the bonfire is lit.

Joan lighting these really cool paper bags. Only to be used at the water on an offshore breeze.

 Away it flies.

 Party!!

 Flying bag, Fireworks and Full Moon...

 Singing God Bless America.

The sunrise this morning over the pond.

Happy 4th of July!

Pretty in Spring: New England

The robin is considered to the be a sign of spring, but they are in New England during the winter months as well. There are 3 kinds of robins in the Boston area, the ones that stay year round, raise their young here and winter over in the trees. The migrants from the north that come to Boston in the winter and head back north in the spring, and the migrants from the South that fly through in the spring and breed north of Boston. There are more robins on the ground in the spring because the food source has thawed, but they have been here all winter.

Just wanted to get that straight :-)

And I know this because Ian loves birds.

Pussy Willow bud.

A good old mallard, looking very regal in his jewel colors, Jenny's Pond.

The white speck in the ocean is Flag Rock on White Horse Beach.

Reflections on a stream in Plymouth.

Tulips.

Daffodils.

Walking around with a friend and our cameras.

Our magnolia tree.

Close up of a magnolia bud.

The cottage with the magnolia in full bloom.

Forsythia.

Johnny Jump Ups from Ting, day lilies and the swan.

Flowering Pear on the left and the Japanese Maple from my dad's yard on the right.

Blood Root originally from Ting's in CT.

Yummm, asparagus.

Quiet sunrise on the pond.

Some favorite images around Plymouth.

Plymouth Beach late in the day, a wonderful place to be.

Jamie, a friend from my photographers club, at a Plymouth Beach meetup.

Sunset that same evening.

Bee on Gailardia.

Joe giving Ian a buzz cut on our deck.

Ian with a hawk caught in the nets at his bird banding job. Most unusual!

The bees really liked the Gailardia, and I like them.

I try to walk to White Horse Beach every day, a simple pleasure.

Another sunrise from the cottage.

White Horse Beach with a Semi-Palmated Plover in the foreground.

Amusing myself by stacking rocks, then photographing them :-)

A random cat on my walk home from the beach.

I took a zillion sunrise photos from our yard this summer! Each one was a work of art, never to be truly captured in an image, but it's fun trying.

Our cottage from across the pond. The wonders of telephoto!

A piece of toast and juice after an early sunrise.

Zinnia and web.

One of my prolific Black Eyed Susan's.

Dinner plate Hibiscus did well with year from all the rain.

Taken by a member of my photographers club during a meetup about portraits. Thought you might like to see what I look like lately :-)

Julie's daughter, Danika, and her friend at a Triathlon meetup.

Cranberry bog near Julie's house where we both spent a lovely afternoon.

Plymouth commuter rail station, waiting for Luke, Ian's friend, to arrive from Maine.