Dan has been after me to get that old, slow computer off his desk for months now, and I’ve been resisting because of all the work involved in making sure that it no longer holds any of our personal data. I’d mostly completed this task, and this weekend, I decided to finish it. While going through the few remaining files, I came across this gem, taken by some friends in May 2006. Enjoy!
Today it’s cloudy, both where I am and on the island. Tomorrow, they’re predicting snow. So it seems appropriate to post a sunset picture with lots of clouds in it. This one is from July, 2008.
This picture from December 1, 2008 looks like a clear view of the sunset sea beyond the sand dunes on the far side of Sachem Pond. But it isn’t. That’s a cloud bank, possibly part of a weather front, rolling in from the west as the sun was setting.
Winter has taken a firm and heavy grip on New England. It’s been snowing here in Boston for the last couple of days, sometimes mixed with rain. There are rain showers on the island. This seems a good time for a midsummer sunset picture. Here’s one from the summer solstice–to be enjoyed with a margarita in hand while sitting outside on the deck in the rose-scented June air.
Ah! Life is good!
Okay, today I am cheating. There–I’ve admitted it. If a person admits she is cheating, is it still cheating?
I am writing this post from Florida, where it has been unseasonably cold. It is still far less cold than the seasonable weather in New England, though, so I am not complaining. I’m actually quite cheerful about being here, where the days are bright enough for sunglasses, and the sun doesn’t set until about 5:30pm.
Here is a Florida picture (not Block Island!) from last Thursday at about 6pm. This picture was taken looking out over the intracoastal waterway from Lake Park, Florida.
Yes, the water really was that pink!
I’m going to stick with winter sunsets today. Even Florida is having its cold weather this week! But will it have sunsets this beautiful?
Here are some fireworks to start off a New Year that I hope will be happy and bright, peaceful and healthy for everyone.
At this time of year the days are short, and the light is precious. Here’s a photo from 2006, with best wishes for a radiant holiday season!
The winter sun sets far to the south of the lighthouse. From our house we look through the sparse trees on the nature preserve to our south, across Sachem Pond, over the dunes, and to the sea beyond.
“Those are very pretty sunsets,” my mother comments, “but they don’t look like winter sunsets.”
“What does a winter sunset look like?” I ask.
“Well… colder. Less colorful.”
Sorry to disappoint you, Mom, but we get wonderfully colorful winter sunsets. Here’s one from November 20th.
This was a sad weekend, because it was our last weekend on the island this year. We are in exile until spring. But the island rewarded us with a beautiful sunset just after 4pm as we were packing up the car. I am especially fond of the ones when there is a sunglade across Sachem Pond.
Communications in the ferry terminal on the island seemed to have come down to the bare essentials. Maybe it’s the deadening effect of the cold weather that rolled in this weekend along with biting winds. There are, as anyone on the island surely knows, two doors to the waiting room in the terminal, one marked with an official sign that says: “Entrance Only”. The other bears the corresponding official sign: “Exit Only”. Beneath the “Entrance Only” sign, someone had taped a hand-lettered piece of paper reading: “IN”. And sure enough, they had also taped a hand-lettered sign beneath the “Exit Only” sign: “OUT”. Just to be perfectly clear about this.
Meanwhile, the following conversation took place in the waiting room.
Person 1: It sure did get cold today, didn’t it.
Person 2: Yup. But maybe it’ll get warm again sooner or later.
Person 1: Yup, maybe it will, sooner or later.
Well, duh! If spring doesn’t do the trick, maybe global warming will.
Goodbye, island! Until spring! Or global warming, whichever comes first! 🙂