Gone To The Beach

Thursday, October 10, 2013

October Tapestry

Hello! It's cooler today...and grey.

I went to the salt marsh park, looking for evidence of bittersweet, to cut for a door wreath,
[photo via pinterest]

....to fill my crocks and bowls with color.

I don't cut the bittersweet at the park, of course...but it gives me a hint when it will be the right day to trudge into the scary road verge [ticks! poison ivy!] on my yearly hike.

''A tangerine and russet cascade of kaleidoscopic leaves, creates a tapestry of autumn magic upon the emerald carpet of fading summer.''

Judith A. Lindberg

Below, last three pix: this is where the little wooden bridge and grassy path lead...out into the marsh, so we can see it close up, see the ospreys' nest and salt ponds which attract geese and ducks and egrets [but not today].

click to enlarge/ see slide show, please....

love

lizzy

gone to the beach

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Baby Boo

Here's Baby Boo!

Not to be ever be confused with "Honey BooBoo"! Please.

Her name is Priscilla but her daddy, Jack---Jack O'Lantern, aka Jack Be Nimble, Jack o All Trades and All Hollows---her daddy called her Baby Boo.

Boo was completed too late last October to be offered for adoption, though you may recall meeting her as I created her. This year she's ready! And very excitedly waiting to travel afar, to a new home.

She is so sweet and prim with her real punkin stem, a found pinafore,

crazy quilt cushion with her name embroidered on it...

and teeny tiny shoes with antique jet buttons...

She will be listed on my etsy site later today, Sunday Oct. 6th, along with her best friend Tabitha the Black Cat.

love

lzzy

gone to the beach.....

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Dunes, Late Summer

It's October---hot and brilliantly sunny here.

Hi everyone! It is still summer where you are?

I don't think we can call this Indian summer [and is that an okay term nowadays?] since there's been no hint of cool weather or heaven forbid, frost. So I'm gonna go with "summer" even as I walk the dunes and shore and search for signs of changing seasons.

The dunes are quite busy with flocks of birds---blackbirds, warblers, crows, rock doves (mourning doves? NYC pigeon escapees?). Arriving sanderlings, above and below; they will winter here.

In the now flat but grassy outer dune area a small band of maybe a dozen of piping plovers has gathered. Oddly they are snuggling into the hot dry sand as if they are nesting. Maybe they are making their spot for next year?

I know, you can't see them! Their camouflage makes up for their lack of defensive abilities. He's in the clump of grass below the dark green goldenrod, towards the left center.

See?

There have been a few oystercatchers on quiet evenings...October 2nd is their usual final grouping and leaving date. And in the marshes, just a hint of amber is appearing, along with large white herons and egrets. The herons/egrets group into small flocks and always remind me of ghosts in the misty marshes.
oystercatcher, below with sanderlings and plovers...