January days! It’s snowing this morning, lightly.
Jan 29 | Jan. 31, 2023
sunrise | snowrise
dry and sunny or silver snow? winter days in #Gloucester, #RockportMA
Tag: Long Beach
winter sherbert and mottled clouds. Daybreak sky #GloucesterMa
20 minutes. Jan. 29, 2023. Good Harbor Beach / Brier Neck. Long Beach. Gloucester & Rockport, MA.
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Did you see the Cloud shelf | cloud roll? #GloucesterMA
January sky 1/25/2023, Gloucester, Ma. This morning’s elongated cloud roll/cloud shelf tube wrapped around the coast and tapered to a funnel horn tip. Views passing Good Harbor Beach and Long Beach
A shelf cloud stacks with the storm cloud. A roll cloud doesn’t. Both were at play today. The roll was prominent 8AM to noon.
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Stepping into 2023 on a clear and sunny New Year’s Day. Walking in #GloucesterMA
Picnics, promenade, and polar plunge- there were fresh starts everywhere we turned.
Photos: Gloucester, Ma. New Year’s Day, 2023. Coffin’s Beach, Long Beach, Good Harbor Beach, Niles Beach, Stacy Boulevard, and Wingaersheek Beach.
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Storm walk on Long Beach after high tide backed off seawall. #winterstorm
Dec. 23, 2022
Views from winter storm walk an hour after high tide when the splash over waves settled back from the Long Beach seawall. The waves are not as huge as some storms. Still, stair and platform debris at both ends of the beach. Surge pushed back into the street. This is the 2nd of 3 high tides in the forecast.
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Storm at sunrise was 50° Surf & Wind. 3 hr to Next High Tide #GloucesterMA
Jingle Bell Storm rise sunrise photos Dec. 23, 2022, about 3 hours before the next high tide: Power is on at Long Beach; Creek level at Good Harbor Beach footbridge; Salty Salt Island; Twin Lights, Thacher Island – sunrise spray and waves; Back Shore
8 AM No power outages reported on Cape Ann – 60,000+ in Mass.- http://mema.mapsonline.net/
9AM Update – 1000+ outages in Gloucester
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First winter snow a dusting on the coast and rainbow spray in the surf #GloucesterMA
Dec. 12, 2022
Good Harbor Beach, marsh estuary, Back Shore, Long Beach
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December morning, Long Beach. Sunrise reflections on cottage doors and windows.
Dec. 6, 2022
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Rockport DPW Removes Long Beach Stairs and Footbridge access
Long Beach, Nov. 10, 2022
This year, several of the stairs had to be dug out several feet for removal.
Sign of winter coming: Saratoga Creek footbridge severed access between Cape Hedge and Long Beach until spring returns.
Sand is covering the rip rap in November 2022, not as high as 2011, and deposited the entire stretch. Sand depth shifts on Long Beach. Read more here in an older post from 2017.
Nov 2021, Nov 2020
Seawall repair October 2022 Before | After
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Took a walk on Long Beach on a clear day
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Summer’s simple pleasures: beach towels on railings, sand rinse foot baths on Long Beach, paper lanterns, beach games, and cloud rolls
Description- Late summer photos. Series around town. Gloucester and Rockport. Good Harbor Beach and Long Beach. Aug-September 2022. Simple pleasures of summer: beach towels on railings hung out to dry; sand rinse foot baths at Long Beach cottages; beach games; paper lanterns; clouds
Beach towels on the railings hung out to dry
Sand rinse foot bath tubs on Long Beach cottages
Beach games – volleyball, beach baseball
Cloud roll
Paper Lanterns
downtown tree in Dock Square and for the playhouse too
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Open Swim for a good cause was a record! WCVB Channel 5 story
Impressive feat for a worthy cause. Congratulations to Michael Klonsky and the reporters for a great story!
He has trained in Cape Ann waters, too.
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beauty of fog unfolding – a Magic Realism morning on good Harbor Beach, Long Beach, Twin Lights
fleeting and atmospheric low tide vistas photos: c. ryan, 7/17/2022
Good Harbor Beach | Long Beach
Thinking about 19th and 20th century painters and printmakers including Ben Shahn, Laura Knight, Peter Hurd, George Tooker, Caspar David Friedrich, Eric Ravilious, Hopper, Morandi, others
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Long Beach Parking Lot Now on instagram. Come visit!
Search for and follow longbeachparkinglot on Instagram (one word, all lower case) Open every day at 8AM. Bathrooms, shower and changing rooms available.
Summer days and beach signs – Long Beach parking lot. No reservations needed. photos: c. ryan
Beach games
Summer sports
heart surf Long Beach motif
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rainbow after the storm – Twin Lights Thacher Island
May 28, 2022. View to Thacher Island , rainbow across the sea
Animation
Faint double rainbow
Ocean fog, storm clouds passing, then blue skies
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Criss Cross Milk Island Criss Cross to Twin: Watch Out for Right whales feeding here again! between Long Beach and Good Harbor Beach #RockportMA #GloucesterMA
Spring time in Gloucester! Right whales visible from the shore May 5 and May 6, 2022. Not as close as 2018, but we could still hear the blows!
video snippets (3.5 min)
Donna Ardizzoni posted about the (humpback) whales off Magnolia last week.
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Make Way for Wild turkeys – by Long Beach #GloucesterMA
Four wild turkeys paraded through the neighborhood.
Photo description: wild turkeys spring courtship time. Striking big male displaying with three disinterested females. They were busy foraging and moving out while he was strutting. One female was momentarily distracted by its own reflection in the front bumper of a parked car. (photos: c. ryan)
2021 Wild Turkeys cross Thatcher Road
Last March I saw 18 cross Thatcher Road, between Good Harbor Beach and Long Beach Dairy Maid, just past Witham.
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Good Morning Sunrise from Long Beach and Good Harbor Beach
April 3, 2022 – sunrise behind Milk Island, views from Long Beach, and Good Harbor
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Powdered Rooftops and Streets #GloucesterMA Winter snow
Winter walks and drives after snow storms February 15 and February 26, Gloucester, Mass.
Feb. 26 Powdered roofs and streets
on the morning after snowstorm left 8-10″
Feb. 26 – Boulevard and beaches
Feb. 26 Shades of Blue and powder
February 15, 2022 sunrise
February 15, 2022 Looking for Hibbard
Thinking about all the colors in snow with light and shadow, and artists impressions of white, prompted a brief mission to Cape Ann Museum followed by a Rockport confirmation pass. (I know the Motif has been rebuilt and situated, and the Hibbard hill is fancy. Still. The thrill of tracing is immediate here!)
Cape Ann and Monhegan Island Vistas, CAM temporary exhibition did not disappoint and marked a rare stop since pre-covid. In January 2021 I was masked and looking at another Hibbard on display at CAM.
artists specific to this post – Aldro Hibbard, Henry Martin Gasser, Don Stone
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Goose down, sunny and snowing #GloucesterMA, Manchester, Rockport
February 6, 2022 – about 8 AM.
A bright winter morning. Snowing. 10 degrees.
winter octopus fence with snow pile like sea foam
Snowing Long Beach – circle view
Goose down– and goose up :). Vid. clip geese dropping down to marsh behind the Long Beach cottages
Good Morning Gloucester 