Floating Gardens of New Beige.....

For the last several weeks I have been immersed in the world of yellowfin tuna, artistic tunas, that is.  Hours and hours spent with the 42 fish for this year's Art Drive.  This morning I needed to be a bit closer to the world of real fish, so I took a stroll along the New Bedford waterfront.  Monday is a busy day as boats get ready to journey out. 

Dodging around rigging trucks and watching welder's sparks fly, I saw a most unexpected sight....tomato plants.  On the deck of Nell, a small barge piloted by Ray were four tomato and one cucumber plant.  Every year he plants his crops in five gallon buckets and lashes them safely aboard. 

"I got all this sun all day... Why not?" he says with the smile.

Ray may earn his keep on the sea, but he is a born gardener.....

Nick Nolte....

Leaving Barney's Joy at dusk, we had to wait for this gentleman to decide to move.  Which he did...eventually. We named him Nick, because he has that dissipated look like Nick Nolte....

This busy guy watched and followed us for awhile.

Foggy Morning at Little River

Workshop Wonder

Learning is a process of ups and downs that is littered with plateaus.

Three days of chasing the light on Cape Cod beaches and tidal flats has pushed me off of a plateau to a new way of seeing.  Before attending Ron Wilson’s Landscape photography workshop, I was being driven nuts by a picture that I knew was sitting in the empty lot at the top of my street, but I couldn’t figure out how to make it work in the two dimensions of the photo.  Now I know the answer….  and so much more. 

It will take practice to put into use what I learned, but how wonderful to have this new visual language.  If only all of my education had been this satisfying….

Nauset Beach an hour before sunrise

Zig zagging in the tidal marsh

Copper glinting tidal swirls

Parking Meters with Accents

The left side is for the locals....the right for the tourists!

Scenes from the New Bedford Waterfront

Recent news about further catch limitations on George's Bank has the New Bedford fishing community in an uproar. 
Mid week and the harbor was filled with working boats with nowhere to go.  A forlorn quiet in one of the country's
biggest fishing ports.

Storm King in the Spring

While Storm's King sculptures are fascinating, it is the natural elements,
the trees, hills, fields of grasses that speak to my heart.

Spring in the Big Apple

In front of the New York Public Library

Kilted, stealth photographer

The Empire State Building, through magnolia bushes in the Flower District

Cherry blossoms in a glass world

On the Streets of New York

Wild life scene on West 28th Street in New York today....

New Bedford Skyline

Under the watchful eye of the city's prominent cupolas, the Earth Day Parade
got organized, and managed to complete most of its route before the rain returned.

Table Top Tulips

When we arrived home from Mexico, we found a lovely homecoming gift -hydroponic tulip bulbs in a tall glass vase.  At first I didn't see how there could possibly be enough room for all those bulbs to actually grow. But with time, patience, and sunshine, came this spectacular color burst.

April Fool's Frost

New England weather - ever the tease. 

If only....

Every day on my way to Language School, I passed these brightly colored brooms.  They always made me smile and brightened my day, but colorful though they are, they don't make housework any brighter a chore.... but I will still take delight in their colors, when my world returns to New England's more muted palette.

Food Trucks for All

Street food is an integral part of life in San Miguel.  Carnitas, fruit drinks, ice cream, tacos, roasted corn. Food carts complete with seating pop up at lunch time, disappear and reappear again when the sun goes down. 

The gringo version of course runs on oil, has a website and sometimes superman stops by.