
Sunset moon over Harbor

My View of Life on the Dock

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





sunrise | snowrise






Put Savannah the swan away for the winter. She will be coming back out in the spring of 2023.

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


Winter surfing, Long Beach, January 5, 2021



Whether the weather be cold or whether the weather be hot, they weather the weather, whatever the weather (and they like it a lot!)
Have you seen these festive lights December nights? Merry drives and cocoa Part 3 scenes all around Gloucester, Massachusetts, including a few extra GMG reader tips and requests:

photos below- Looking past Man at the Wheel on the left, through wreath, Beauport Hotel tower lit red and green
Merry drives and cocoa nights 2019 (mobile photos #nofilter)
12/8/19 Part One here
12/19/19 Part Two here
12/23/19 Part Three (this post)
Merry drives and cocoa day 2019 (wreaths, traditional displays and/or mostly white lights) 12/13/19 here
Merry drives and cocoa – daytime
It’s beautiful out here! Wreaths adorning decorated homes and businesses make for merry daytime drives throughout Gloucester neighborhoods and Cape Ann.

Twofers- bonus night illumnation for many!

Merry drives and cocoa – part 1, nights Holiday lights: here
Rockport, Mass.- Shoveling Windy just before high tide after the super snow moon

And then the dinghy.

Just before high tide







Town Begins to shore up Long Beach seawall, by Michael Cronin, Gloucester Daily Times

Plenty of prior GMG posts (search “Long Beach seawall”); here are a few:
REPAIRING LONG BEACH ROCKPORT MASS AFTER STORM DAMAGE|BUSY NEW ENGLAND DPW CREWS April 2018
Seawall damage coverage GMG post May 25, 2018
FILL RAKE AND ROLL- NEXT STEPS IN THE LONG BEACH SEAWALL STORM REPAIR June 2018

and a frost weathered shell-cracked horseshoe crab. Sequential views and hues in response to requests for Wingaersheek Beach photographs.


I needed a flashlight at first, mostly for the ice, long stretches in the parking lot then frozen ice scoops in the dry sand. I waited for sunrise, returing to spots I’ve favored since I was a little girl, adding glances back in the direction of Wheeler’s Point, where my parents lived, and over picnic boulders and slide pools out to Annisquam Lighthouse. The light was simultaneously a ring of orange mauve fire and rosy pale violet gray. More photos:
Continue reading “Wingaersheek Beach winter walk: sunrise, boulders, sand ripples”

Post storm wildlife
How would you caption this scene outside your window? My friend shared this photograph of a hawk eating an unfortunate bird on a small roof at her house by the boulevard, Gloucester, MA, January 6 2018.