Martha's Vineyard (September/October 2019)
Monday, September 30 - Saturday, October 5, 2019.
I went to Martha's Vineyard to visit my sister who was there for a
few weeks to close up "the cottage." We did a little bit
of hiking and exploring, and I helped her with some lugging. The
weather was quite nice. Plus we always get really nice sunsets
from the deck.
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East Chop and Vicinity
We walked from our place to East Chop Drive,
looking at the houses by the water, and continued to the lighthouse,
which was under rennovacation.
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Some silver dollars next door which were catching
the light from the sun.
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There were a bunch of birds on the wires by the telephone
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A house on East Chop Drive, facing the water and Cape Codd
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Sunsets Part 1
We got a nice sunset on Monday night. I took a few pictures.
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A panoramic view looking out by Beach Road
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Felix Neck Audubon Wildlife Sanctuary
We went to a nature preserve run by the Massachusetts Audubon Society.
Felix Neck
is on the east side of the island. There are a number of short, flat
trails that go through woods and some end up by Sengekontacket Pond
with Beach Road on the far side of the pond. It's a nice place.
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Just beyond the parking lot was a little clearing with
some cool areas.
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Marlene posted at the end of a triangle of branches
(kind of looks like an...(more)
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Beyond the wooden rib cage was a garden with various colorful
flowers.
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Note the bee going to town on the flowers (tey look like
asters).
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One spash of color from a mooring buoy on an otherwise gray day.
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Marlene at the end of the trail by Sengekontacket Pond.
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The straight, red-topped trees stood out against the shore.
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A marshy area just beyond the trail that's used to measure
sea-level rise and...(more)
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Marlene and Frank by a bird watching hut at Felix Neck.
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The Labyrinth was a concentric circle maze path made of
low stones.
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A shadowed stranger stands before the Labyrinth's entrance
(it's me).
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Even more wormy of an eye view of the labyrinth's path.
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A side view of the labyrinth's entrance, with a moon and star
on each side.
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The bark of this fallen tree was stripped—perhaps
from many little kids.
Low Tide, High Tide
The tide comes and goes twice a day, so roughly every six hours
are the extreme high tide and low tide. The stream that runs through
our back yard can be pretty low and sandy at low tide, and at high
tide the grass a few feet away from our patio can have puddles from
the overflown stream. I took a few pictures at some of the extreme points.
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The pond by us at high tide. The swampy areas can be
grass at low tide.
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The stream near high tide and the Lagoon Pond beyond it.
The small flow...(more)
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The stream at low tide (mostly sand and mud) and the
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Martha's Vineyard Museum
The Martha's Vineyard Musueum
in Vineyard Haven, opened maybe a year ago. It has various things
relating to art, history, and culture connected to the island.
It's visible to us from the patio.
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The Lagoon pond seen from the front of the musuem.
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Looking out at the Lagoon Pond form the front of the museum.
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The Gay Head Light in Aquinnah used a first-order fresnel lens.
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A bit of blue sky poking through clouds above a stone wall.
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Stained glass windows in the museum barn that has extra stuff.
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Extra stuff includes a wagon wheel, tavern sign, saws and more.
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There were mushrooms in the lawn that looked like stones.
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The colorful red and blue markers stood out against the water.
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Panoramic shot of the musuem (former Marine
Hospital).
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Another Lagoon Pond panorama from the edge of the museum.
Sunsets Part 2
Like I said earlier, we get a lot of nice sunsets. On Friday, there
was a lot of orange colors and clouds, so I took more pictures.
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The setting sun just starts to peak out below the clouds.
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The sky by the drawbridge is a brilliant orange-yellow.
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The clouds separate the orange-yellow colors of sunset from
the sky.
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So orange. So yellow. And the tips of the clouds are
also illuminated.
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The sun has almost set, the bottoms of the orange clouds
are limned with yellow.
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More deep orange and yellow colors and warmer blues on the pond.
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