This photo is for sale, on canvas, 14x14", at the Phoenix Gallery, Bellport. Canvas wrapped and ready to hang, profits go to the Brookhaven Arts Council.
The view from the Captree State Park fishing pier...
A beautiful night to watch the sunset!
My beautiful, pleasant grandson William
The progression of his birthmark (hermangioma).
My beautiful, pleasant grandson William
A vascular birthmark that only shows after the first few weeks of birth. We saw a specialist in NYC and William will need surgery to remove it when he gets older. It's not life-threatening but for cosmetic purposes it will be removed.
Love this time of year, the beach, boating and warm weather. Love Long Island too!
Just looking at some old photos. This one from my trip to Sicily in 2007.
My mother's parents were from Agrigento. I never got to meet them but the people in this city are wonderful. One lady wanted to know why I was walking around with a short-sleeve shirt. It was 65 degrees F (about 20 C) and the Sicilians were wearing winter coats. I was so warm and over-heated from walking up and down those many hills and steps.
Every street twists and turns and brings you to another hill or staircase through an alley-way. I loved it!!!
It was Sunday and I could hear the pots banging in the kitchens, and ladies speaking Italian...and the smells!....wonderful tomato sauce cooking for Sunday dinner. It brought back wonderful memories from my old Brooklyn.
Agrigento, Sicily
Our yearly visit to the racetrack with the Long Island Photographers Meetup group. Fun day, as usual, with a great group of people.
I don't know the names of all the varieties of dragon flies and damselflies, but thought this one was a beauty. I wish I had gotten the bright blue "tail" sharper, but I think he was vibrating this end to attract the females!
"Damselflies are similar to dragonflies, but the adults can be differentiated by the fact that the wings of most damselflies are held along, and parallel to, the body when at rest."
So I guess this is a damselfly!
Found this guy while shooting with my friend Michelle at Sunken Meadow Park. Beautiful day today, just a little too warm, so we stopped shooting by 11am!
We took a nice evening sail last night on the Great South Bay. This guy was sailing with the wind behind him.
One year ago today, this photo was chosen for Flickr.com's Explore page. Still one of my favorites!
Brown's River, Sayville
As the weather improves, boat rides to Fire Island are more frequent and enjoyable.
At the Jones Beach Air Show rehersal, May 28, 2010
Retired Northwest Airlines captain Julie Clark, an acrobatic pilot. Clark is "one of the best female aerobatic performers in the country," says New York State parks spokesman George Gorman.
A quick boat ride on the Great South Bay to watch the sunset. It's still a little cool on the water but summer is not too far away! It was just nice to be out there!
Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily
like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,
listen to it growling.
-Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), U.S. poet
Living on the river keeps me connected to the changes in weather. A minor drop in temperature, a sudden appearance of clouds, an increase of wind speed....it is always obvious and can't be ignored.
I rarely listen to a weather report. All I have to do is step outside, feel, smell, and experience the air .
Beautiful sunset on the Great South Bay.
Now if the rain will only stop, we can all get back on the water!
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It's so wonderful to see these large birds coming back to Long Island. It seems that every town has their osprey family nesting high on the tree tops.
Leaving Saint Thomas in the US Virgin Islands for the BVIs. We were not on a cruise ship but rather a "bare boat" with our friends, two other couples. We were the captain and crew, cook and sleeper. (You always have one sleeper in the group, don't you?)
The Baths on Virgin Gorda.
Rock formations form small pools and passageways along the beach.
Oliver is just three years old.
Tomorrow, it is scheduled, that he will become the older brother of twin boys.
I'll keep you posted!
The daffodils are beginning to come to full bloom and the sun is shining. I was home from Florida for just one week and it was time to leave again. Another travel opportunity which this Long Island Woman will never pass up!
Ocean fishing on some rough water, we caught Amberjack and Rudderfish.
On the water, I'm very happy, the birds flying looking to catch some extra bait.
The water was fairly rough but it doesn't look so here. That's Singer Island in the distance.
