Orange Friday

All I can say is that I feel sorry for the poor schmucks who went shopping today and were stuck inside the mall when this happened. It was one of the 10 best evenings at the beach EVER.

Thanksgiving 2011

I started this spectacular Thanksgiving off with a long, long hike along Crane Neck and the beach. This is my report: Lots of black flies. What's up with this? Don't they know it's November? I found dozens of the plastic wagon wheels, courtesy of the Mamaroneck Water Treatment Plant who dumped them into the Sound in the spring. They will be hearing from me again. I sent them a huge box full of them back in March and they never even wrote back. This time I will not be so nice. The tide was unusually high this morning and the sky was like a superhighway for helicopters! Where are all those obnoxious, noisy people going? Are Muffy and Trevor flying out to the Hamptons for turkey dinner?

A fine day for sailing...NOT

Such excitement here on the one afternoon I was home early--fire department rescue trucks and ambulances rushing up my driveway! There was a boater in distress out in my bay! I was just thinking to myself today "What a lovely day for sail." Isn't it funny that some guy from Port Jeff was thinking the same thing? He ended up safe and sound beached on my beach. The fire department and Coast Guard tied his boat up and I guess he will come come back for it tomorrow at high tide. I will go check on it later to make sure there is not a herd of deer having a big party on it. Hmmm, what if he doesn't come back for it? I can't have a cat, but no one said anything about a boat...

The elegant universe

The moon was spectacular last night, but I chose to capture it this morning when it is positioned over the water. It was very accommodating to hang around until dawn, as the pinks and oranges of the new day crept over Smithtown Bay. Everyone was up early today. The deer, the gulls and the poor crabs who became breakfast. The whole bay seems to breath in and out with the tides, like one big giant organism.(a huge ameoba?) It all moves together with the air, the moon and the stars and so do we. We just forget about it sometimes, but we are all connected.

On My deer...

I was on a nature walk today when I ran into a very handsome fellow. It's hard to believe that a buck like this could be living around here. I am referring to the deer, silly. You should know by now that I don't ever meet any men on the beach. He was not one of those scrawny deer that usually populate this area. He looked more like Bambi's daddy! I talked to him for a while and he just stood there on the hill listening, probably just waiting for this silly beach lady to move on. "Hey lady, why don't you check out those seagulls over there? I think one has a crab." I also came across a piece of wood that looked like an animal eating something. I had to take a photo and share it! When I tell you that I walked for over an hour on the beach and did not see another human being, would you believe me? True. Is this Long Island? The sunlight was dazzling today and the photo does not really do it justice.