Niles Beach Tuesday & Thursday

Ocean Boats

Everyday (well, if I manage to get out of the house), I see something beautiful rushing past the driver's side window.  Today I stopped in order to fully witness the giant cruise ship in Gloucester Harbor from Niles Beach.

Labor Day

There was nothing laborious about it, a day on the beach, leftovers, and a tri-cycle ride.  Perfect.

This is Your Home Town

Sail boats from Bickford's Marina across from my workplace.  The marina was forced to close this summer, and we have been watching the slow clean up of the site over the last six months.  Boats have been relocated, a gas tank excavated, and cranes swing about hauling mysterious detritus into battered trucks.  What remains is elegant and spare.

Pink Bouys

I looked at an apartment here at the Beacon Marine Basin a few years ago, it featured porthole windows and a slip for a 14 foot vessel.

I didn't take it . . .

. . . I ended up here instead.

Cripple Cove Landing

I drive by Cripple Cove every day on my way to work, but I never have time to stop and document.  Today I have the day off and went back to freeze my fingers on the shutter release button.  The lobster pots are stacked six high in careful arrangements spread all through the yard.  Gloucester in the winter is a quiet place when compared with the summer months, but because we are year round and my life doesn't change I barely notice the shift save for the ease in traffic, here though today I finally settled into the stillness of winter.