Images closer, closer, closer 2/3/2024: Those rocks are moving 🙂 Long Beach regulars slow float & feed, waddle, or stand when they hit a sandbar stretch.
Sun came out sometime after 10AM
Low tide lazy river feeding. Winter birds on Long Beach
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Dead seal on Long Beach was reported
Images: Jan. 28, 2024, 9:30 A.M. A seal that’s washed up dead on Long Beach was reported to authorities. Sick or dead marine wildlife can pose risks. Despite advice to keep a distance from beached seals, dead or alive, people and pets touched this one. Dogs sniffed, marked, chewed, dug and climbed atop the body. In its current position at this particular tide, the cause of death is undetermined and no visible wounds are apparent. High tide may cover and move the seal out or re-beach it again./
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So, snow?
Winter walk wondering if it will stick to the 1-3″ forecast or not.
photos: Conditions at 4pm Jan 6, 2024. Windy chimes; pretty snow divots dot Long Beach from a brief snow pass earlier in the day (surprise to me because I was thinking conditions would change after midnight); and newish bench at Cape Ann Motor Inn overlook.
video clip: from Long Beach walkway and cottages- musical wind chimes and small white caps
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Basking
photos: Gearing up for 2024 while enjoying the last winter sunrises of 2023 (fresh squeezed Dec. 23 & basking Dec 31, 2023)
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winter gray and floating sea foam day
photos: Mood between Christmas and New Year’s. 12/29/2023 after the rain, sea foam ribbons streak the ocean between GHB and Twin Lights. (No foam by the surfers.) Views from Long Beach.
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Heron on the utility pole was half the story.
photos: Dec. 25, 2023. Flying just above the surf, two herons battle raced the length of Long Beach taking a turn at the Cape Ann Motor Inn bend then looping straight back behind the cottages above Saratoga Creek. They came to a stop with one on the utility pole and the other at the water’s edge. Ben Hur-ons 🙂
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Hint of snow. Winter morning #GloucesterMA
photos: 12/5/2023 first winter snow- a dusting with fairy hail, split sky, brief rain
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Thanksgiving daybreak #GloucesterMA
caption: sunrise photos 11/23/2023–Fisherman at the wheel, GHB marsh oxbow, salt marsh, Wingaersheek
caption: Long Beach photos—sunshine, seaweed and surfers at noon
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Nocturne Churn | Loud night surf Thanksgiving eve
photos. video clips: evening walk on Long Beach. Thanksgiving eve 2023.
Occluded moon and resolution was a bit Albert Pinkham Ryder-esque.
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Gold and Copper. Late Autumn in Gloucester.
photos: Fall vistas and Thanksgiving decorations in Gloucester, Mass., November 2023.
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Little buddy joined the walk
We had some company on a beautiful day! Did you see a praying mantis, too?
photos| video clip: praying mantis walking, Long Beach walkway Oct. 27, 2023
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Sun breaks and clouds over Long Beach #RockportMA #GloucesterMA
photos: C. Ryan, Oct. 2023. Fall Long Beach photo block.
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Long Beach surfing
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Storm prep. Long Beach photos Aug. & Sept. #RockportMA
Photo blocks from Long Beach, Rockport & Gloucester, Ma.:
Sept. 14, 2023
When it’s time it’s time. The lifeguard chairs, most of the stairs, and the footbridge are removed every year, and for this season it was at sunrise Sept 14. Rockport DPW is also on top of the storm prep ahead of this weekend’s Tropical Storm warning forecast. They work fast to beat the tides.
september 1,2 / schooner festival
I saw this beach chair and thought perfect chair for Schooner Festival weekend. Imagine chairs on the boulevard printed with custom vessels (iconic racers and current ones). The smoke in the sky again from fires in Canada.
september 8- Black SEa and black clouds then blue Sky, no rain or rainbow
When the sea is black, the photo with the blue sky pockets and the clouds like waves–the last sequentially–was unexpected. Note the scale of the Long Beach cottages vs. clouds.
August 18
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Did you see the sunbeam rainbow? And the red sprites and night lightning on the ocean horizon? Long Beach #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
Gloucester and Rockport views all in one summer day, 8/13/2023: 5 P.M., 5:01 P.M., 5:15, 5:16 (w/Salt Island), 5:16 (turned), 5:58, 6:00 P.M., 6:12, 6;13, 6:25 (sunbeam rainbow shines on Twin Lights), 6:26, 6:27, 6:28, 8:22, 9:30 P.M. Note the ‘big sky’ scale of clouds compared with a car, homes, roofs, Salt Island, etc
photo block 5pm-930pm observed sky: The many weather moods in 4 hours on August 13, 2023. Capped off with red (sprites) and white lightning visible from Long Beach 9-10:00 P.M. The lightning looked a bit like far off fireworks. Red and orange bursts and dashes registered some on cell phone (4 sec video clips below). Bet there were some beautiful night and day photos!
sunbeam rainbow
Rainbow and crepuscular rays- Rainbow streaks shine on Thacher Island.
video snippets below
7 seconds (tough to see: look for red in the middle of the frame at about 4 sec mark. May need to enlarge to full size to bypass the ‘play’ button)
10 seconds- look for dashes in the middle of the frame. White flicker on left was a drone
4 seconds- If this frame were split in 3 vertical strips, about 2 seconds in concentrate on the the left 1/3 to see a pinkish red pulse. Earlier in the evening there were sweeping arcs of diffused lightning
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Did you see the red and white lightning on the ocean horizon tonight? Long Beach #GloucesterMA #RockportMA
August 13, 2023.
Gloucester and Rockport views all in a summer day. Photo block 5pm-930pm observed sky: The many weather moods in just 4 hours. Capped off with red (sprites) and white lightning visible from Long Beach 9-10:00 P.M. The lightning looked a bit like far off fireworks. Red and orange bursts and dashes registered some on cell phone (4 sec video clips below). Bet there were some beautiful photos tonight!
8/13/2023: 5 P.M., 5:01 P.M., 5:15, 5:16, 5:58, 6:00 P.M., 6:12, 6;13, 6:25 (rainbow), 6:26, 6:27, 6:28, 8:22, 9:30 P.M. Note the big sky scale of clouds compared with a car, homes, roofs, Salt Island, etc
sunbeam rainbow
Rainbow and crepuscular rays- Rainbow streaks shine on Thacher Island.
video snippets below
7 seconds (tough to see: look for red in the middle of the frame at about 4 sec mark. May need to enlarge to full size to bypass the ‘play’ button)
10 seconds- look for dashes in the middle of the frame. White flicker on left was a drone
4 seconds- If this frame were split in 3 vertical strips, about 2 seconds in concentrate on the the left 1/3 to see a pinkish red pulse. Earlier in the evening there were sweeping arcs of diffused lightning that .
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Long Beach has a new cottage
Summer reads! photos July 13, 14: Long Beach Book Barn. And daybreak.
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Happy 4th of July! Red, White and Blue Stacy Boulevard Then | Now
Red, white and blue. Historic homes and cottages.
photos: Gloucester, Mass. Stacy Boulevard
- July 4, 2023
- vintage postcard (saved by my grandparents, found in their desk that I inherited
- winter scene from 2020 (Christmas in July 🙂 )
- 2017, 2018, 2019 vantage to note evolution of remodeling (the blue home was remodeled from its green door to the red door/blue exterior there today)
- 1942 Gordon Parks that I’m re-sharing from March 1, 2014 — asking again in case anyone can help identify the boys in the photo
photo: red, white, blue Long Beach cottages, Rockport July 2023
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Pretty night!
summer nocturnes July 3 ,2023
and 1 Horribles photo shared with me! Frank mobile from Wisconsin–in Gloucester’s Fishtown Horribles parade thanks to Ringo Tarr
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Sunrise Smoke sky. Flags for the 4th. Long Beach
photos: C. Ryan. Sunrise views from Gloucester looking out to Twin Lights and from Long Beach to the festive cottages ready for the 4th of July weekend. Below today’s for comparison: Sun rise Smoke Sky Last month. June 7, 2023.
Sun rise Smoke Sky Last month. June 7, 2023
little more yellow that morning. July 2, 2023 fog was in the mix.
Good Morning Gloucester 