Snowstorm photos: Daybreak like a dreamy Maxfield Parrish two days out and shoveled #GloucesterMA back shore

New Year’s Day takes flight. Whisper of snow and whorls of starlings over Good Harbor Beach

So long 2025 and let’s go 2026! Happy New Year!

Good Harbor on Sunday Morning

Rick and I took a walk on Good Harbor Beach Sunday morning.  The clouds were forming, and ocean turned a silver color.

 

Good Harbor at low tide

With Hurrican Erin, off the coast, the ocean could be a danger.  The beach was beautiful with amazing light.

Shark sightings Day 2 off Long Beach and Good Harbor. Big surf and blue sky #RockportMA #GloucesterMA

Aug 22, 2025

Both Long Beach and Good Harbor Beach were closed to swimming again due to shark sightings –and seals, too, viewed from Good Harbor. Rumors about a beached Great White circulated and dissipated. Long Beach reopened to swimmers. The waves are tremendous.

Suddenly, resplendent. Summer blue days #GloucesterMA

photos: Good Harbor Beach. Long Beach. Inn at Good Harbor Beach. June 20, 2025. The weather forecast for next week is more unbroken fine summer weather for beach and Fiesta 🙂

Photos: June 19, 2025. Mesmerizing fog then the sun broke out and the sky was cloudless and blue. And June 12th.

video clip: Unusual seagull line up. They usually tuck in clumps along Long Beach for weather events.

Thatcher Island on a foggy day

Even on a foggy and soggy day, always carry my camera.  Took a walk on good Harbor Beach and Thatcher Island looked mysterious.

For more information regarding Thatcher Island please go the https://thacherisland.org/

As the sun was trying to come out on Thursday

Took a walk on Good Harbor Beach late afternoon on Thursday.  The weather was starting to improve.

This much fresh snow in Gloucester.

photos and video: Rooftops, beaches, and robins. Views from the road plus two winter walks on Wingaersheek Beach–yesterday vs. snowfall today. Jan. 19 (icy blue puddles and sheen) vs. Jan. 20 (yellow light, soft and silent).

Gloucester houses and rooftops

Good Harbor Beach Marsh views

Road to. Wingaersheek Beach

Robins

morning sun, Wingaersheek Beach

January 19, 2025

Saturday snow and drizzle. #GloucesterMA

photos | video: This much snow about 8:30 AM in Gloucester, Ma. 1/11/2025. Roads clear. Winter views back shore, Good Harbor Beach, Days Pond, Long Beach.

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Walking Good Harbor Beach

On Thursday afternoon took a walk on Good Harbor Beach.  The light and clouds were beautiful.

What did we see? pilot whales or dolphins or…? Video from shore #GloucesterMA

August 14, 2024. 6pm.

Images: Exciting sightings! Shoreside views looking in the direction of Milk Island and Twin Lights from Long Beach neighborhood. Feeding and fast maneuvers between Twin Lights and Good Harbor Beach with the extended feeding seen in the images closest in line to Milk.



They will be green again: Old Nugent Farm Monster Exterior Reno Project! 20M+ and scores of condos remodeled all at once #GloucesterMA

Out with the old exterior and in with the new! The Old Nugent Farm condominiums are getting some love in the summer of 2024. There are 70+ (72?) condos and SPS was contracted to take care of each one. The exterior components to be demoed and replaced are all the biggies: Roofs (some with skylights). Siding. Windows. Deck. Chimney repointing. The completion date is expected before the summer of 2025.

A unique construction staging area was tucked away to manage the scale of this project. Besides deliveries and garages, a mini mockup condo model was constructed to test the materials in the field, and problem solve optimum execution and training (such as the flashing performance).

The original great design of the Old Nugent Farm condos, which deferred to nature, will remain. They will be green again. Do you remember before there were condos?

PHOTO SERIES: JULY 1, 2 & 8 2024

March 2024. BEFORE.

Utility work on Thatcher. View back to Old Nugent Farm condos on the right and Good Harbor Beach parking lot sign on the left.

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