


zoom images: digiscoping hack (cell phone camera through binoculars)
My View of Life on the Dock



zoom images: digiscoping hack (cell phone camera through binoculars)







photos: Gearing up for 2024 while enjoying the last winter sunrises of 2023 (fresh squeezed Dec. 23 & basking Dec 31, 2023)








photos: A bright Gloucester sunrise 40° December 25, 2023.
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












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.
little more yellow that morning. July 2, 2023 fog was in the mix.




Easter morning Rockport, Gloucester 4/9/2023








January days! It’s snowing this morning, lightly.





sunrise | snowrise






20 minutes. Jan. 29, 2023. Good Harbor Beach / Brier Neck. Long Beach. Gloucester & Rockport, MA.












12 snapshots. Pinch and zoom or double click for full size.
The weather has been very drab and dreary, but in the morning on Wednesday what a nice surprise.

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

Dec. 6, 2022











Gloucester artist, Emily Grace, has delivered a bold delight downtown. Magnolia Sunshine, her vivid new mural for the exterior wall of Bravo by the Sea , is complete and its immediacy lures you in.
I asked Emily about her inspiration and design:
“I was so glad when Beth (Beth Gibeley Panagos, Bravo owner) asked me to do my own style for the mural. All of the shapes and bright colors are the way I love to work and it’s just awesome when you get someone to commission you for something and they really want YOU. When thinking about the art for the space, we knew it needed to be Gloucester themed, and then we thought it would be great if it could be Magnolia themed since Beth and I both live in Magnolia.
I’m so honored to be able to bring my work right to Main St, it’s one of my favorite places on Earth, being a Gloucester girl!”
Emily Grace, November 2022
Emily Grace finished “Magnolia Sunshine” on Nov. 27, 2022. Did you spot the cherished landmarks? The completed mural features local scenes: a sunny surrealist horizon and lush floral border, Magnolia pier, harbor, and Kettle Island.
Emily Grace resides in Gloucester and is a Junior Painting Major at Salem State. You can see more Emily Grace art here: Instagram: @e.grace.art and Etsy ArtbyEmilyGStudio







Bravo for Emily Grace Mural for Bravo by the Sea! photos: C. Ryan Nov. 30, 2022.

Building at the corner of 131 Main Street [Bravo by the Sea (formerly Larsen’s)]
view from Hancock Street between Main Street and Rogers St (formerly Topside corner) and back up to City Hall
ARTIST | EMILY GRACE





work underway –

April 3, 2022 – sunrise behind Milk Island, views from Long Beach, and Good Harbor




Winter walks and drives after snow storms February 15 and February 26, Gloucester, Mass.
on the morning after snowstorm left 8-10″













































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












photos: chasing rainbows blustery, sunny Saturday January 15, 2022







photos: c. ryan. December 2021
Glorious morning


photos: Gloucester Harbor



photo (click to enlarge) Long Beach Gloucester & Rockport, MA




