Sunday, March 29, 2015

The Block Islander

Bringing information and images from Block Island.

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Sunday, April 24

A lovely sunset on Block Island, along with a beautiful tribute to Prince from the Poor People's Pub.






Saturday, April 23

Over the rail and through the window on a gray day in the historic fishing village of Galilee, Rhode Island.






Friday, April 1

Just some random shots on a day that should have been spring, but was a little colder, mistier, windier than it should have been.












Saturday, March 26.

We'll call this essay "Markers." Block Island is full of them, honoring its history in a variety of ways.


The base of the memorial for the Block Island men who fought in World War II.


 The face of that memorial.





This can be seen on Pilot Hill Road.



The marker for what is known as the Indian Cemetery.



The graves of the Native American buried on the island were not marked by carved headstones, but by simple rocks with no names attached.


The marker outside the Block Island Historical Society in Bridgegate Square.


This marker, also in Bridgegate Square, celebrates the Block Island men that served in World War 1.


Outside The Surf Hotel, a sign announcing the name of the Town, and who we are named after.


The base of the Statue of Rebecca. W.C.T.U. is the Washington County Temperance Union, perhaps one of the least effective unions ever.


Verbiage on the plinth below the statue of Rebecca itself.


Friday, March 18

The weather has been so variable on Block Island this winter that is has been hard to describe the season as "winter" at all. We had two nor'easters, but one day you could be wearing shorts and the next day your layered winter gear. It's been that kind of season. Today, the weather is mild, but we will compare that to what may happen by Sunday, when we are supposed to get another snowstorm. It was mild during the day, when these pictures were taken, but by the evening it started to get cool again — perhaps a harbinger of what would happen by Sunday.

This is a shot overlooking the Mohegan Bluffs.



A gull relaxing on Settler's Rock.


Just the patterns of some shad trees at Mohegan Bluffs.



Friday, March 4

Nothing like this has ever happened like this in the United States before. Here, at the Fred Benson Town Beach, workers are beginning the work on preparing the groundwork for laying the transmission cable that will link the very first offshore wind farm to Block Island and the mainland.

The five turbine Block Island Wind Farm, which is owned by Deepwater Wind, will generate 30 megawatts of power once it goes online sometime after October of this year. The cable connecting the turbines to the island then to mainland, is owned by National Grid, the huge utility company. The cable, which will be 26 miles long, will cost an estimated $107 million. It is also expected to bring more internet bandwidth to an island that has poor internet connectivity now.

The building of the wind farm has been controversial, and remains so. It was designed to do two things: lower the island's electric rates and cease the operation of the local Block Island Power Co., which generates power through five diesel-fueled generators. Stopping those generators was meant to lower the fossil-fuel pollution — according to proponents of the wind farm.

These photos are of the work happening on the island. What the workers are doing is creating the pathway where the cable will come ashore. The cable will pass under the beach and then travel up Beach Avenue and over to the property behind the Block Island Power Co., where the new substation will be built.

What the photos can't capture is just how cold it was on that beach today. The wind was coming down from the north. Because of that, to save time, I took these images with my phone.

Here are the photos:

This photo is of the equipment that is being kept inside the north parking lot on the Corn Neck Road side of the Beach Pavilion.



Huge tires on the trucks that bring the equipment out to the beach.



An earth mover waiting for the next job.



Looking south toward town.



Looking north, this is pretty wide shot of the site where the preparing the cable to be laid.



Another piece of equipment that was sitting quietly at the end of the day.






The crews will install what is known as a cofferdam, which will then keep dry the dug area on the beach where the transmission cable will come ashore.






Sunday, Feb. 28

Two tugs, one large and one small, in the port of Galilee; probably associated in some way with the Block Island Wind Farm project.



These are some images taken at the Trustom Pond National Wildlife Refuge in South Kingstown, R.I.

A magnificent old tree.



Three views of the sun peaking through.



In this absolutely thrilling photo (ha ha), the thin strip of Block Island can be seen over the edge of the pond.




Saturday, Feb. 27

Chilly but calm out here today. A strange collection of vapor trails in a shot taken from on Corn Neck Road across from the Beach Pavilion at about 11 a.m. or so.




Thursday, Feb. 25


The storm has reached Block Island. The 8:15 a.m. boat leaving Block Island is on schedule, but the rest of the day is questionable. Check with the airlines for flights. Information will be updated when it is available at 401-783-7996.

Call New England Airlines at 1-800-243-2460 for flight information.


Wednesday, Feb. 24

It's about 7:30 a.m. on Block Island. The fog has settled over the island, but as of now there are no announcements on the website of the Block Island Ferry, so the boats are scheduled to run as of now. No information on New England Airlines, so check with them.

The top of the communications tower — dead center of the photo — is barely visible. Temperatures are mild and we received a little rain overnight.







Sunday, Feb. 21

A trip across the sound.

It's a little after 3 p.m. and I'm getting on the 4 p.m. boat. It's February and the Block Island School is on vacation, so the island is very quiet. The boat will probably be fairly empty, filled mostly with crews working on the various projects going on around the island. The weather has been mostly unseasonably mild and clear all winter, and it is so again today.



The following is a view from the post side of the ferry.



A view from the starboard side of the boat.



This is how the boat looked at about 3:30, but it soon filled up pretty nicely.


I take my seat.


This is about half-way through the 55-minute trip. You can see the island off the port side of the bow.


The wake of the boat.


We're backing into Old Harbor, Block Island. It's about 4:50 p.m.


The ferry docked at Old Harbor at about 5:10 p.m. A few passengers are walking to their cars, heading home before the work work begins on Monday morning.



Tuesday, Feb. 16

The light was once again extraordinary as the sun set after a rainy, gray day. These were taken a little after 5 p.m. I didn't venture out too far — only to my back yard.






Sunday, Feb. 14

Two views from the Jessie Edwards Studio on the second floor of the Post Office Building, overlooking Old Harbor. The 11 a.m. ferry from Pt. Judith is backing into the ferry dock.





Sea smoke and snow winds blowing through New Harbor this morning.


Saturday, Feb. 13

The wind chill is making it seem as though it is anywhere between -20 to -35 below. We're told the temperature is 9 degrees, with wind gusts up to 32 miles an hour. This is at about 7:15 p.m. This is the result of the famous "polar vortex." The temperatures are dropping and the island is pretty quiet.  It was too damn cold to get out of my car, so I took these on my cell phone by pointing it out the window.

Here's what we're seeing: This is looking north on Corn Neck Road. The light is from the streetlight in front of the Old Island Pub. To the right is the Yellow Kittens, very much closed up for the winter.


Kimberly's Restaurant, on Ocean Avenue, is open for one more day, Valentine's Day, tomorrow and then will close up until May. The light from the restaurant casts a warm glow on the frigid night.

The new LED streetlights on, just below, on Corn Neck Road and, below that, on Beach Avenue, captures somewhat the dark quiet cold on this winter's night.



Saturday, Feb. 6
We had a little winter out here in the last couple of days. The snow came on Friday, the planes were cancelled, but the boats were running. After the snow left, the clouds parted and the light that came through was the most extraordinary thing people had seen in a long time. The few photos I was able to take coming in on the boat hardly do that light justice. The next day, Saturday, the sky was blue and the snow — heavy and wet — clung to just about everything: signs, trees, rocks, cars, buildings, fences; you name it.

These were taken on the ferry pulling into Galilee on Friday, Feb. 5.


 These shots were taken in Narragansett on Saturday, Feb. 6.





Wednesday, Jan. 27

A quick snapshot from the phone trying to capture the light as the sun fell — taken from the parking lot of Kimberly's Restaurant on Ocean Avenue.




Sunday, Jan. 24

A blizzard blew through Block Island over the weekend - in fact we were the epicenter of the storm for once. The island shut down almost completely — the center of town never lost power but everyone else did. I happened not to be on the island so didn't capture any images of the storm itself. By Sunday morning, power had been restored and the island woke up to blue skies. The only reason the boats and the ferries didn't start up right away was because the docks and the runways had to be cleared. By 12:30, New England Airlines was flying and the first boat back from Point Judith was at 4 p.m. The day was warm-ish, and almost immediately the snow started to melt. The roads, already passable because of the work of our Highways Department. During the storm, the school, the Harbor Church were opened, and several people who had wood stoves or generators also welcomed their neighbors if they needed to keep warm and a hot meal. It was a memorable, if brief, storm.



 Ice on some power lines.

A back road evoking New England at its snowy best.



Tuesday, Jan. 19

It's been a mild winter so far, but it seems now that we are in the beginning stages of a major storm due to hit the island this weekend. The ferry boats from Galilee, Rhode Island, were cancelled today, but will presumably run tomorrow. Ferries are usually cancelled because of high winds; snow or rain are not enough to keep the boats from running. So here are some images, which for all intents and purposes are the first to show what a winter on Block Island can look like.







Tuesday, Jan. 12

I don't know why I find these images so fascinating. Maybe it's the patterns of the sand, or the fact that the snow fencing looks something like an ancient ruined half-buried. These are cuts from the parking lot of the Fred Benson Town Beach that offer access to the beach itself. They'll have to be cleared out by the time the summer comes. Speaking of summer (haha), the days are getting slightly longer. There is light in the sky at 5 p.m. when we head home from work. A small thing, to be sure, but while it has been a mild winter, there is no question that there is not that much to do.






Sunday, Jan. 10

The weather outside is frightful. This photo doesn't capture the power of this storm, I just stepped out my back door and took the image with my phone, but the most important thing is that the ferries have been cancelled for today.









Friday, Jan. 8.

There was no need for a free outdoor shower on this rather mild January day.



Our famous Lobster Trap Christmas Tree on Water Street. I took this photo around noon and by the middle of the afternoon a small crew had come by to start to take it down.


This shot was impossible to resist. This beautiful piece of machinery was sitting on top of a hill off West Side Road, and even though we live on an island this looked like old New England.


This is the dock down at Ballard's Inn in Old Harbor. The wind was up, and the waves were splashing up over the breakwater.

 Two vignettes of a fishing boat that was sitting in the inner basin at Old Harbor. Just a little local color.



A lobster trap sitting on the pier that overlooks the breakwater in Old Harbor.


Monday, Dec. 14
Images in the fog are always the most beautiful. I'm Swedish and Welsh, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise that fog appeals to me. These images were not taken on Block Island, but in Narragansett, R.I., at the lighthouse. The fog was so thick objects just a few feet away were shrouded in mist.






Every year we get a visit from this guy. He makes a stop at the Harbor Church, chats it up, hands out some treats, lights the tree and then disappears into the night.


Wednesday, Dec. 3
I was driving up Corn Neck Road to work this morning, just before 8:30 a.m., and I saw that the sun was directing a beam right down on top of the Surf Hotel. You can almost tell from the photo that it is an unseasonably warm day (after a bit of a chill yesterday). But I thought it looked beautiful.

This is a view just off to the west, over the Old Harbor, also taken from Corn Neck Road.


Thursday, Oct. 30
They say we don't get much surf out here on Block Island, but that wasn't true today. A couple of people tried to brave it, but it was pretty rough. The boats to the mainland were cancelled.

All these were taken along Corn Neck Road, looking north.





Friday, Oct. 23
A very beautiful fall day. Temperatures just right, and the sky is clear, clear, clear. The radar tower at Montauk is usually obscured by mist or fog, but today you can practically reach out and touch it.

At about 11: 30 a.m., a tugboat cuts across a silver sea.

Stacks of a recent edition of The Block Island Times in the office, waiting to be archived.

Saturday, Oct. 3
There have been no boats for two days, although the people over at New England Airlines, which has been flying in and out of Block Island for 45 years, tried to get as many wedding guests over here as possible. We did hear that some weddings have been cancelled, which has to be heartbreaking for the people who were getting hitched.

It certainly has been an interesting week, with the superman and the eclipse, and now the tentacles of Joaquin bearing down on us. Everything is quiet; we are sort of on our own.

Here are some images of the past week, starting with the most recent.

This is what they must mean by "hanging on by a thread." The top of the building of the bike rental shop at Old Harbor.
 Two boats brave the storm in Old Harbor.

After a day or so of heavy winds, the access trails over the dunes started to fill up with sand.


Saturday, Oct. 3. This is from Settler's Rock, looking toward the mainland. You can't get there from here.

The Great Salt Pond was full of boats early in the week, but as the prospect of Joaquin became more of a reality, it quickly emptied out.

This is our little town at night, just as the supermoon was rising that Sunday.

This is how the moon looked over Town Beach sometime after 7 p.m.

Two island poets, Jen Lighty, on the left, and Lisa Starr, stand in front of the supermoon on Sunday, Sept. 27, at about 6:30 p.m.



Saturday, Sept. 26
I was out with a colleague looking at various locations on the island to photograph what they look like at low tide because, by tomorrow, they will be covered in water due to what are known as "king tides." It's because of this big moon we will see during the next few days. During our walk, I captured some images I thought were arresting.

Not something you see everyday. Looking for Maryann and Ginger (probably at Yellow Kittens):

The ruins of the old Searles Mansion look Romanesque here:

Here is a couple enjoying in the waves and light on Mansion Beach. You can see one of the Block Island Wind Farm turbine foundations on the background.
 An avian photo bomb.
 The sometimes lunar-looking landscape on Mansion Beach.
 I call this "The ribs of the wind."
The strange rock formations called "pots and kettles." Located, appropriately enough, at Pots and Kettles Beach. These formations are pockmarked with the molds of oyster and mussle shells that have long since dissolved into the sea.


Thursday, Sept. 24.
The day started off cool, fall-like, but quickly heated up until it felt like summer again. This first image is from the Town Beach, looking south.
I was amazed at how blue the sky was that day.
 This is not a great picture, but I thought the light off the waves was spectacular.
Two ferries, crossing during the day.
Labor Day Weekend. Saturday, Sept. 5 & Sunday, Sept. 6
The island seemed busier than the Fourth of July., People everywhere; a continuation of the stunning weather we have been experiencing since June. Here are some snapshots:




Thursday, Aug. 6
The weather could not have been more perfect on Block Island. It was hot, but not too humid. I decided to look upward, and saw the cloud formations, which were beautiful in all their different designs. This was taken at the Crescent Beach.

Clouds forming over the bluffs.
An interesting formation:
A squall showed up and left these clouds in its wake:
I thought it was interesting to frame a shot to make the clouds look like they were the land below the horizon.

Sunday, Aug. 2

You never know what kind of beauty you will find on Block Island. A maddening drive down Corn Neck Road (are they actually teaching kids on mopeds to pass on both sides of a moving vehicle?) turned out to be worth it. A vacationer by the name of Mike Paytas, who has been coming to the island for the past 15 years, carves out a little alone time and he goes to the beach to make beautiful sculptures out of balancing stones. They certainly grabbed everyone's attention.

Friday, July 31
Here we are saying goodbye to July. It's hot out here today, but that has not stopped people from coming to the island. Here's the scene at the Southeast Light, around noon.

This little boat was just skimming across the water off the west side of the island.
Tuesday, July 28
The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning until 7 p.m. This did not seem to phase many people, as the decks were crowded, but the beach was almost emptied of people, but it would be by this time anyway. I went out to Corn Neck road to see what the sky looked like. Thunder rumbled low and slow, and I thought the sky and the ocean were almost the same color. There is a little wind now, at about 6:40 p.m. This shot was taken about 10 minutes before. This ferry is keeping just ahead of the clouds.


Monday, July 27
I should have posted these a few days ago. I was out at the Southeast Lighthouse looking over the water to take pictures of the first installation of the Block Island Wind Farm. But it was too hot and too hazy. The huge equipment could barely be seen, so I turned and saw the bluffs shrouded in mist and snapped an image. This was maybe about noon.
Friday, July 24

I went for a walk along Crescent Beach about 6 p.m., walking at first toward The Surf Hotel, I was walking away from the northwest side of the island so I didn't see the storm cell. When I turned around at The Surf, the sky over the horizon was so black it was purple, and skins of rain could be seen falling somewhere over the mainland. Briefly, there was the beginning of a rainbow, just a small curving bar of it before it disappeared into the clouds. I didn't have either my camera or my phone. So I walked up to the bluffs, and then turned again to head back toward the beach pavilion, I could see people (the few people remaining on the beach) beginning to pack up. I looked back at the sky and it was magnificent. I sprinted to my car to get my phone and took these at about 7:05 p.m. This is the first photo of the storm; the Corn Neck Road side of the Beach Pavilion.

This is from the Town Beach side. In the bright spot in the center you can see the rain falling.
This is the front end of the storm, heading out to sea. The beach was virtually empty by then.
As the clouds drifted over the island, the wind picked up, a few drops of rain fell, thunder struck once or twice, and then the skies cleared. By a little after 8 p.m. there wasn't a breath of air and the birds were chirping.

Saturday, July 18
This is something never seen before in the United States. Three miles off shore, the first two of five steel jacket foundations for the historic Block Island Wind Farm arrived off the coast of the island today. The wind farm is the first project of its kind in the U.S. The steel jackets, now sitting on barges, were built in Louisiana and shipped north on July 4. It will take about eight weeks for all five steel jackets to be installed, and the Wind Farm is expected to go online in late 2016. This a view from Mohegan Trail.

This is a second view from Vail Beach:
And, just for variety, a view of the bluffs at Vail Beach, with the stairs from Mohegan Bluffs in the background.

Monday, July 6
There was a joke out here told pretty frequently over the weekend: Is there anybody left in the mainland. Block Island seemed to be the destination of choice. Cars, people, mopeds, bikes, you name it. Restaurants were slammed. The Great Salt Pond seemed to be filled to capacity with yachts from all over.

On Monday, July 6, the hubbub was pretty much gone, as evidenced by the one lone crane diving for fish.

The weekend, however, was a different story. This is what Bridgegate Square looked like moments after the parade had ended.

Red, White and Blue during the parade on Saturday, July 3.

Poor People's Pub held its first Hot Dog Eating Contest. Not as fierce as the one held at Nathan's on Coney Island, but still just as gross.
The fireworks display was set up on in the afternoon of Friday, July 3, at Town Beach. Here, some of the canisters are being loaded up. Delicate work.

And here are the results. The fireworks took place at dusk, just about 9 o'clock, and you could see them from almost anywhere on the island. This view is looking down Water Street toward The Surf Hotel, with beach just beyond it. This was near the finale.
Monday, June 29
Okay, so we took a few days off. Well, we went on vacation to a place that wasn't Block Island so that we could get away from all the people who come here for vacation. It's confusing, because people ask, "Why would you ever want to leave?" You do and you don't; but sometimes it's good to get away from the neighborhood. Today is a sparkling blue day, perfect temperatures, not humid at all. There was a giant cloud bank hovering over the mainland that caught my attention (how could it not) that gives a pretty good idea of what kind of day it is out here today.
Tuesday, June 9
After the excavator fell into the drink, the work to repair the breakwater project was over (over, but not completed) for the season. Here an earthmover picks up some of the planks that were used to build a temporary road on the surface of the breakwater so that the heavy machinery could go back and forth. The project to rebuild the breakwater, which was damaged by Superstorm Sandy, will resume in the fall.
A fishing trawler showed up in the bay and hung around for a couple of days. A popular thing to do on Block Island is to walk the breakwater to get a little closer to the ocean without actually going in it.

It was hazy out here today, but the surfing was terrific, which a group of island kids took full advantage of in the late afternoon.
Saturday, June 6

And once in a while there is some news on Block Island! The long breakwater that protects boats coming and out of the harbor has been undergoing a reconstruction this year — several years after it was damaged by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. A barge that was carrying one of the excavators that was attempting to extract a large piling flipped over, sending the excavator into the inner boat basin. You can see the arm of the excavator at the left.
Two small boats push the overturned barge toward the breakwater.
The crowd gathers to take a look.

Friday, June 5

There's a lot of energy out here on the island today. Schools are letting out, people want to take advantage of the nice weather, although it's a little cool out here today. The weekend promises to be nice and warm. In another couple of weeks, the island will be operating at gale force and everything will be crazy for the next three months. This is a view looking up Water Street toward The Surf Hotel, which is straight ahead. The flags are decorating The National on the left. It was a little after noon when this was taken.

Monday, June 1

This is what we call the "shoulder season" on Block Island. It's not the winter, and it's not summer. We're busy, but it's not too crazy. Memorial Day is always energetic and fun, but then everything calms down for a few weeks as people wait for school to end and the vacation season to formally commence.While Memorial Day was picture perfect weather-wise, it's been variable the last few days. It was foggy and threatening rain, but even when it was clear the air was a bit cool.

Here's an image of the Fred Benson Town Beach, at the end of a chilly Sunday, May 31.

The hi-speed ferry from New London skids across the blue-blue ocean, bringing some latecomers.

It took more than 24 hours for the rain to finally arrive on Monday, June 1, but the low-hanging clouds hovered for a while before that. This shot overlooks Fresh Pond, ands the houses in the background are just beginning to get obscured. This was taken on Saturday, May 30.

A little color on Ocean Avenue. Freshly cut lawn, flag flying in the background, and you can smell the lilacs from all the way down the street.
After several days of fog, and a day that was overcast, the sky cleared and the light at the end of the day was extraordinary. I took a chance and drove up Corn Neck Road to the North Light to see what the sea looked like under the slanting light of the late-day sun. I wasn't the only one who had that idea; there were a few cars parked at Settler's Rock, which overlooks the bay and the mainland. My instinct proved to be correct, but my organizational skills failed me. I had my camera case, but not my camera, so this was taken by my Samsung Galaxy. The pennant of light behind the lighthouse is just wonderful.
There is not a lot of fun in taking pictures of low-hanging clouds full of water. But that's the situation we find ourselves in. Yesterday, Block Island was a unique combination of cool temperatures and humidity, and today the fog rolled in early and never left. The forecasts said it would be gone by noon, but here we are, at about 5:45 p.m., walking through Mott Park. Even though it is still a picture of fog, this image seemed to be particularly arresting:

And then there was this tree, just a few days past its full bloom — there were tiny pinkish petals, in a ring, on the ground below — that had a sweet, sweet scent. I wondered briefly how many individual blooms there were on this tree.
Memorial Day is this weekend. Block Island will be busy. The boats are running, all of the shops, restaurants and hotels are open. It's not too hot, not too cool. It's the perfect time to visit if you're looking for a place to come alive for a weekend.


This is a view of Rodman's Hollow, looking north. The billows of white are the shad, now blooming all over the island. This shot was taken about 6 p.m. on Thursday, May 14. Tomorrow is Conservancy Day, which celebrates the island's conservation successes.

Second full day of fog. Here are a couple of images of Nathan Mott Park, looking west. In this one it looks as though the hounds of the Baskervilles should be running across the moors, howling, but all is quiet on this Saturday, May 9.
The sun is trying to push through at about 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 9.
Tonight, Friday, May 8, you probably couldn't find Block Island on either radar or sonar. During the day, half the island was sunny, the other half was shrouded in fog. By 7:30 or so, the fog bank that hovered over the mainland rolled over us.

Payne's Dock, right on the Great Salt Pond.



The historic Narragansett Inn.

This is looking down Corn Neck Road, right in front of the Beachead Restaurant.


It was a sultry spring morning on Block Island, the morning after the full moon. There was a haze over the ocean as the first ferry of the day left for the mainland on Tuesday, May 5.
There aren't many Little League fields that have a beautiful tree in shallow center field, but we like to do things differently on Block Island. Today, Monday, May 4, was the first day of the two-team program, and both sides came out swinging.
The teams get ready for battle:
Four images of the Block Island Boat Basin taken on a sunny, warming, May 3 Sunday. It's quiet out here today, with one worker toiling away at The Oar, but it won't be that way for long. The Boat Basin will be open for business this year and is taking reservations.

The dock:
A view of the dock from the Harbormaster's Office:
The flag over The Oar:
Tables and chairs waiting for the season to open:
Not a great shot, but this is the interior of The Empire Theatre, one of the last single-screen rustic theater's left in the country. The image is Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez from "Fast & Furious 7," which has grossed more than $1.3 billion since it opened. That tally will be modestly increased after tonight, Friday, May 1, when the Empire opens for the season.
Three cormorants welcome the ferry on a gray day, Monday, Sept. 27.
A lone surfer tries to find some waves at the town beach on a calm Sunday morning. 9:30 a.m., April 26.

Rodman's Hollow gets a facelift as the shad begins to bloom. Sunday, April 26.
A sure sign of spring is the arrival of the mopeds on Weldon's Way. A chilly but beautiful day on Block Island. Saturday, April 25, 10:30 a.m.

The wind picked up today, Monday, April 20. The breakwater takes on some water. Boats cancelled for the rest of the day.

Daffodils are the unofficial town flower for Block Island. They are everywhere, and are just beginning to bloom after the long, cold winter.
Solar flares, Nathan Mott Park.
North Light, looking out toward the mainland.

Old tree, Hodge Trail.

Green & Gold.

Sunrise, 6:30 a.m.


Sachem Pond, Block Island.



Easter Morning, April 5, about 6:30 a.m. A lone lobster boat makes its way back in to Old Harbor as the day begins.


Block Island rooftops, about 7:45 p.m., April 4:


Mohegan Bluffs, looking toward Montauk, about 7:30 p.m.

Taken at 7:45 p.m., April 3: Night ferry in the fog, Old Harbor.


Taken about 9:30 a.m., March 28:


Taken about 9:30 a.m., March 29:

Taken about 9:30 a.m., March 28:

About 24 hours later:

Two boats in the Inner Basin:

Lobster traps:

The Great Salt Pond: