Nauset Beach

In the fall, some folks bring a chair, a blanket, and a book to the beach, bundle up, and stay awhile.

Morning at Skaket Beach

A blustery day on Skaket Beach. The gulls are all hunkering down to wait out offshore winds reaching 30 mph today.

Walking to the right on Skaket Beach soon brings you to a river, probably a good place to explore at low tide.

At Skaket Beach you can walk a long way to the left even though it's posted as private beach. Further down, a sign says the owners permit the public to walk between the high and low tide areas. (OK, so I was a little outside the lines for this shot.)

Skaket Beach

A neighbor recommended Skaket Beach for walking, so I went there today to take some photos with the new camera for the blog. (This counts as working, right?) Skaket is a public Orleans beach on Cape Cod Bay with calmer water for swimming.

Afternoon in the cove

A gorgeous day today, perhaps the last warm day of the year. Sans camera I walked the beach for an hour, thought it too beautiful to go inside at 5 pm, so took some photos in our cove, giving my dropped pocket camera one last chance to show me it's shooting properly. It isn't, but with some tweaking, this photo is acceptable.

Company!

Our first visitors came on the weekend: Sara and family along with high school friend Ellie Smith. The downstairs bedrooms had been stripped of wallpaper and furnished just in time. Weather was perfect. Ellie took the ferry back to Boston from Provincetown on Sunday.