Summer has its own pace — sometimes slow and sleepy, sometimes fast and exhausting. The grandchildren like to go-go-go. The older folks wouldn’t mind taking a nap every day.
This photo collection starts out with my energetic older grandson, who learned to surf this summer. Suzanne tried it, too, because John bought her a surfing lesson for her birthday. She says her nephew was really a natural.
Today’s pictures are all from Providence and New Shoreham.
Suzanne’s neighbor has the goofy fairy houses, and the elegant used bookstore Paper Nautilus is also near her home.
The Painted Rock is a beloved island feature — too beloved these days. People paint over one another’s messages within hours, and even a decent picture gets no respect. There were few decent pictures this year, mostly spray painted graffiti.
On our morning walk, Sandra and I snuck up on the bird that was visiting the Manissean cemetery, thinking we’d get a great shot of a heron. You have probably already realized it was only a cormorant. But what a cormorant was doing in the cemetery is anybody’s guess.
I wrap up with a pre-dawn view. “The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.” (Wish I’d written that myself.)
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The sun photo at the end is fabulous! And how cool about the surfing.
Oh, that picture before dawn was actually of the moon. So bright. Amazing!
Wow; that’s even *more* fabulous.
Your grandson is fabulous!
He even gave your 3-year-old granddaughter a ride. Be sure to get the video from Suzanne.
You do this to me so often–now I’ll have “Bess, the landlord’s daughter” in my head all day! Phil Ochs did a song of the Highwayman . . . I love the calm rural photos and it’s the best picture of a cormorant I’ve ever seen!
I haven’t heard that Phil Ochs song. Will check YouTube.
Kerry! I listened to the song and was reminded for the umpteenth time that I always confuse the Alfred Noyes poem “The Highwayman” with Walter de La Mare’s “The Listeners.” Some day I’ll just write a combined poem. They belong together. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47546/the-listeners
Fantastic photos! Loved the fairy houses,love the Queen Anne’s lace, and the moon is beautiful!
I’m told there’s a great display of homemade fairy houses in Providence every spring. I aim to go next spring and take lots of pictures.
That would be fun to go to! I’ll be waiting to see what you capture!🙂