The Gate to Being

Saying Good-Bye at Brant Point

Sunken Skiff

The usual and unusual in our gardens.......

This year I planted black beans as well as the usual. Time to harvest when the high winds of a hurricane or tropical storm blow. If the storm stays west of us, we won't get much rain, and the salt spray will ruin tomatoes and soft skin vegetables.

The Lightship Nantucket With Relief alongside

National Honey Bee Day

Folks interested in honey bees, might enjoy learning more about National HoneyBee Day, August 20th.
Click the title of this post for a link to the website to find events in your area.

Swarm, Capped Honey & Frame of Brood

Blossoms

Tiny Blossoms Here on the Rock

Front and Corner View, But What Has Happened Inside?

Grateful

Spring

Rocking and Ballet

Beach Beauty

First Congregational Church

A Peaceful Sanctuary........

Correction To Title Two Brothers a Nantucket Whaling Ship Found

This posted on NOAA today

Sorry about the error...but please read on....we once hunted whales too....

Two Brothers was captained by George Pollard Jr., whose previous Nantucket whaling vessel, Essex, was rammed and sunk by a whale in the South Pacific, inspiring Herman Melville’s famous book, Moby-Dick. Pollard gained national notoriety after the Essex sinking, when he and a handful of his crew resorted to cannibalism in order to survive their prolonged ordeal drifting on the open ocean. The story of Pollard, Essex and Two Brothers was reintroduced to American audiences by author Nathaniel Philbrick’s New York Times bestseller, In the Heart of the Sea.

Maritime heritage archaeologists working with NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries recently found the wreckage of a famous 1800s Nantucket whale ship, Two Brothers. The wreckage was located on a reef off French Frigate Shoals, nearly six hundred miles (966 kilometers) northwest of Honolulu, in the remote Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument.

This is the first discovery of a wrecked whaling ship from Nantucket, Mass., the birthplace of America's whaling industry. All of America's whaling ships are now gone, broken up, or sunk, except one, the National Historic Landmark Charles W. Morgan at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut. 

Winter

These photos were taken this afternoon, on the island. Sunny, no wind and only a dusting of snow this morning, which has melted.

This is the perfect time of year to photograph architecture as there is very little foliage in the way and the light is lovely..