The Effect of Cold on Salt Water

Crystalline salt water in it's myriad forms never ceases to amaze me with it's beauty and can put on pause my dreams of summer.






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Orient-by-the-Sea Restaurant and Marina is the location furthest east on the North Fork where one can dine if you don't count the snack bar at the Cross Sound Ferry terminal 200 yards away.  During the season many "party boats" make their home here, taking fishermen out for half day or whole day fishing expeditions, the way to go if you don't own a boat.  At the end of the trip the crew hands you your catch cleaned and ready for cooking.  This shot was taken in December with a low angled sun under leaden skies.  Three shots at different exposures were combined to get his result, fun to look at and a little other-worldly.  Some colors and other details pop.

Orient-by-the-Sea Jig Saw Puzzle

Click on the link below. When that page comes up, click on the red word play. Click on the puzzle pieces to move them around. Have Fun!

A special thank you to Lily Robinson for the idea!!

http://www.jigsawplanet.com/?m=pr&id=8d98d03ffe16658e

Little Gull Light -- Worm Drilled Shell

New Year's Day Walk

One reason we wanted to get a place on the North Fork was because the winter weather is tempered by the Peconic Bay and Atlantic Ocean to the south and the Long Island Sound to the north, one mile and two miles respectively in Cutchogue.  This is supposed to translate into moderate winters and a lengthy growing season similar to that of Nashville Tennessee and Bordeaux, France.  This climate along with a nearly identical Bordeaux sandy soil make-up is why wine grapes are grown so successfully here.  This year, however has turned the notion of a quick mild winter into a record busting snowfall the last day of fall and two more snow days since then, one three days ago and another today, a few inches already with no end in sight!

Yesterday we took a walk on the Blue Trail in Inlet Pond Preserve and enjoyed the intermittent sun as we trudged through the woodsy areas, then on out to the Sound with it's beaches strewn with drift trees, on up the bluff to a Sound overlook covered with bittersweet... a lovely afternoon.

 

A photo of me atop a frozen wave of ice piled up by the tides over ten years ago, 

our last big snow year 'til now.