A wet fall

The leaves seem larger this year

also, larger in number.

I sat in the garden yesterday

thinking about the garlic I planted.

They sprouted early....

as least I'll have a lot of leaves to mulch them with.

Buffalo

Friday, I went to Martha Clara Vineyard to photograph a BBQ. The vineyard has a large yard with a few buffalo. This guy was very close to the fence and I was trying to get him to look up.
He would have none of it.
 I went back to my car and geared up to go to work. As I closed the trunk of the car, he was looking right at me, he then lowered his head and went back to eating the grass. I guess he gets board with picture takers.

She rides the waves

I stopped at Ponquogue Beach to see what I could see. 

The grey foggy evening didn't stop eight or so surfers from their sport. There were two ladies surfers, one on the beach and one riding the waves. I couldn't stay to see the other tame the mighty ocean.

Time to fly....

I just wasn't quick enough! 

The Butterfly Bushes still have flowers  

and 

butterflies are still visiting. 

Queen Ann's Lace Fall

Lost and Found

Another photo of the Road K artist's work.

Road K

First find at Road K in Hampton Bays.

I wanted to take it home, 

but that wasn't the point of the art.

I'm seeing dots

Ceiling lights at an ice cream shop. 

LT burger

My wife and I went up to Sag Harbor to catch the new ferry to Greenport. We were planning a nice walking day around Greenport. Unfortunately, the ferry was full, so we walked around Sag Harbor, checked out the galleries and shops and ate at LT Burger. All I can say is what a cool place to eat!  The food was great and the service excellent. I don't know what took us so long to try the place. 
Sag Harbor has a few great places to eat, that's probably the reason.

Borded

Sitting in an auditorium, waiting for my charge

borded

this isn't how I dreamed my life would be at 55.

borded

I can see the ribs of my starving social being.

Enjoying the setting sun

A beautiful Cormorant watches the setting sun. 

                                                              (...and me as I snap and step.)

Butterflies in the Butterfly Bush

The last of the flowers on the Butterfly Bush are calling. 
Monarchs fly around from one bloom to another gathering what they need to start their migration south. When I was in Peru, I saw hundreds of Monarchs along the banks of the Amazon. 
It was like orange confetti! 

Putting some light on the situation.

Sorry about the hiatus everyone. I needed to take some time away from the computer, TV, talk radio and the like. Election season is always a hard time for me. Working around government and politics and then coming home to it is just too much at times. A little break is good to keep me from getting too depressed.

The end of August

While photographing golf four-somes today, 

I came across  this tree lossing its leaves. 

Signs of autumn.

The writing is on the wall

We left on Thursday to take Adam back to school for his last year. The ride to Northfield Vermont is boring. There's bright spots along the way, and Wolfie's in South Deerfield Mass. was one of them. Decent food, a reasonable price and great help. The wood plank siding on the restaurant is a testament to the place!

Two sunflowers....

...were standing in a garden.....

ballerina

From the Lumiere Ballet 

performance of Coppelia at Tanner Park. Those slippers have seen a lot of dancing.

Sepia Surfer

A photo from Wednesday. 

Enjoying my birthday weekend with 

family 

in from California.

The speed limit

My age and the New York State Speed Limit 

are

 synonymous.....no not 70!

My thanks to google for the cupcakes and candles.

Tidal Offerings

As the ocean waves recede, small stones, shells 

and sometimes little sea creatures are left on the beach. They form a temporary statement and only last until the next wave washes them away, mimicking much of life. 

Lace in the meadows

 Tis the week I advance a year.

 As you could tell from yesterday's post,

 I'm looking at things differently.

A little soft focus here.

Sun rays through the clouds

What a weekend. I started by working in the garden yesterday, weeding and pruning. It was hot, humid and sunny. In the next yard, behind a row of cedar trees and a fence, were the neighbors enjoying their pool. The children were yelling as their dad played the part of an underwater monster swimming around and getting them. You could hear the two of them splashing him, trying to get away and hide behind their mother. Neighborhood noise, good neighborhood noise. I could have stayed in the garden all day. 
Today, was the other end of  the age spectrum. We supported our local Elks lodge and went to a lobster fest. The food was great. I haven't has a lobster in a few years,which made it even better. The majority of the folks there were much older that us. I know many of the service organizations are losing membership. Younger people haven't the time or interest to join and older members are passing on.
I just wanted to be back in the yard listening to the sounds of youth.
Today's photo is an oldie but goodie. I made this on a walk along the ocean one evening this past October. The beaches aren't this empty, even at night, at this time of the year.

Legs

I've always been a leg man! 

A Larry Rivers sculpture called legs, that lives in the historic village of Sag Harbor has caused a big stir. Neighbors don't like it or the traffic or the lights that up-lite it at night.  The owners of this sculpture, Janet Lehr and Ruth Vered are well known in the art word and here on the east end of Long Island. The Vered Art Gallery in East Hampton is quite the place! I would highly recommend it.  
But, sometimes artists and gallery owners look for attention. A few years back, The Vered Gallery was in the press because they were serving wine during an opening. They don't have a liquor licence.  The great news is that it caused such a stir, the gallery was packed with visitors. The press about the legs has caused the same thing. They put the sculpture up in 2008, but it wasn't until recently that they were asked to remove them. 
After a major newspaper article about them, someone asked me to make a photograph of them and actually I couldn't find them. I was looking for them on the front and not the side yard. 
So, now I've been to Sag Harbor twice to see and photograph the legs. Both times, I ate in the village. Maybe the chamber of commerce should try and work something out and put them in a public space for people to see. Or maybe, just keep all the hoop-la in in papers and visitors will have to stumble on them and maybe, stay for lunch. But, like any nice pair of long legs...people are gonna look! Maybe a downtown revitalization project should look into their own set to help boost traffic. 

Hydrangea

A very pretty deep red hydrangea at the end of its bloom. 

I've never seen this color before.

Green skies over Riverhead

Sometimes, 

the most ordinary scene look so dramatic in inferred. 

Post #802. 

Very grateful to be busy with work.

TV & The Olympics

I don't watch much television and I totally dislike the fact that we have to pay for it now. 

 This photo was made Friday, a TV antenna, something you don't see here anymore. All tv reception is cable or satellite for us Long Islanders. This antenna is probably just a left-over. 

We just had satellite installed, Direct TV. We haven't canceled Cablevision yet until we are sure we're happy, especially at the price we have to pay for TV. We're not too happy right now. While watching yesterday's Olympics, the men's cycling event, at the finnish, we lost TV. This is the second time in ten days or so that we've have serious weather and lost TV, yesterday for long time. Oh well.

I love watching the Olympics. Today's woman's cycling event brought tears to my eyes as Elizabeth Amitstead earned Great Britain's first metal, a well deserved silver.  Men's volleyball is on now, the games are incredible!

Crazy at work

I came across this door on my way to a job last week. I thought about the saying,"one door closes and another opens." This was the side door for a florist that went out of business.  

I hope another door opened for them.

It's summer and it's my busy season, crazy busy. Busy is good. I was suppose to work tonight, but there's a storm watch, so the concert on the lawn was canceled.

ArtHampton

One of the benefits fo living on the east end of Long Island is the art scene. Southampton and points east of here are known for being artsy, William Merritt Chase painted in the neighborhood where I now live, Jackson Pollock lived and worked in East Hampton the list goes on. It has to be the good light!
Each summer for the past five years promoters rent what seems to  be the world largest tent and host ArtHampton.
Last year was the first year I attended, and it was awesome! I was so motivated by the different things I saw and some of the people I met. This year I went again, but found it less motivating. Maybe even a little disappointing. First, there was a lot of the same work I remember from last year. Some new art, but much of the same. On that note, it also seemed every dealer/gallery had a piece featuring Marilyn Monroe. I know she's an iconic figure but enough is enough! 

I photographed this because my wife always asked me to photograph our greyhound, Isabel, with a hat on her little head. Wouldn't know that someone painted a greyhound just like that! Oh well!

A walk on the shore

Guided by Town of Babylon's Department of Environmental Conservation, I went on a walk with the town's intern program to see what the DEC does on a local level. It was very educational to say the least. Our guides walked us along a restricted area where we were able to see a Least Tern nest with an egg.

The Least Turn is a protected species. The DEC monitor where they nest and fence it off till the chicks are on their own. 

Both this chick and egg were on the unprotected side of the fence.  We saw an egg that was stepped on, and a bunch of eggs that were gathered and placed on the protected side of the fence by someone who cared enough to move them but was unaware that once touched they would never be hatched.  

dragonflies

I was at a town park this evening

 and the place was swarming with  dragonflies.

 One landed on my hand as I held my camera. I didn't see of feel any mosquitoes. 

Airport

There's a few small airports here on the east end of Long Island. The further east you go, the more likely you'll find a crop duster or two on a farm. This airport's big draw is skydiving. It's close to the south shore, but I'd bet you could see both shores from up in the sky.

I made this photo in the spring, but I don't think I posted it. So I'm offering it up for the transportation prompt for Carmi's Thematic Photographic-203.

Queen Ann's Lace

I've never seen so much pink on a Queen Ann's Lace. 

Another favorite.

Bronze fennel

This is my last photo from Sophia's Garden. Bronze fennel, a beautiful smokey looking herb plant, both red and green. 
I was told it is very invasive and if I were to plant it, to put it in raises boxes away from the garden. 
It is very hot here today, please be careful in the heat.

Sharecropper

A modern-day sharecropper picking turnips. This was made at the organic farm, Sophia's Garden, on the grounds of the Dominican Sisters Retirement Grounds in Amityville. You don't have to be a nun or retired to become a member. Some people participate in the fields, planting, weeding and harvesting, others pay for produce. It's an awesome place. 
The out-of-focus green and tan plants are garlic, soon to be harvested. 
(This is the same Amityville of Amityville Horror fame.)

Row of Maple Trees

Way past these rows, on the other side of the weeds, you'll find a fence and a road. That's the usual view I have of these beautiful trees. While visiting an organic garden last week I found myself on the other side of the fence so to speak.  This is part of the grounds for the Dominican Sisters Retirement Home in Amityville. 

Black-eye Susan

Like Sunflowers, 

Black-eye Susan 

are just scream summer to me!

lacecap hydrangea

A close-up of my lacecap hydrangea. 

This plant never ceases to amaze me.

 In the evening the flowers glow.

The Traveling Vietnam Wall

 This weekend I had the opportunity to visit the Traveling Vietnam Wall. I've been to Washington and seen the Monument there. 

The feelings at both are the same. 

People touch the wall, make rubbings of names, 

hang flags and lean photos there.

Taps

If you get the chance....

 see it.

Red Rain Abstract

What else is there to do when you're stuck in 

a monsoon in the car?

Dream Forest

Overexposed inferred. 

I might have to add a texture screen or something. 

Last of a dying breed.

Phone Service Cancelled

Killdeer

While visiting the under-construction arboretum the Town of Babylon is building, I was introduced  to a mamma Killdeer tending her four eggs.  There were two nesting birds under blueberry bushes, this one was less afraid of us and let me get close. Jennifer, the town arborist,  and I were actually picking blueberries from this bush. The other mamma bird wouldn't let us get close at all. She jumped  around with her wing flat on the ground as if she is hurt. I love the red around her eye.
Happy father's day to all the dads out there!

Box Car

Keeping with the general theme of railroads and inferred.