Acceptance is Key

By: Pamela Leavey On: February 1, 2011 at 8:35 pm

Acceptance is key to living in peace and harmony with all things and all persons. To achieve acceptance is not always easy. With practice and patience I can put away my judgments and achieve acceptance. ~~ Pamela J. Leavey

(Photo of Newbury Salt Marsh, c Pamela J. Leavey 2011)

Icicles at Night

By: Pamela Leavey On: January 21, 2011 at 3:40 pm

I spent a good part of the day yesterday with camera in hand taking photos at the Newbury Salt Marsh (one of my favorite places to photograph), and then later in the evening I thought the icicles on the porch were an interesting subject:

I’ve finally added a photogallery to my website, you can view more Icicle photos here. For now the photogallery is a work in progress as I add previous photos shown here on my blog and work on other galleries of my photography.

Change is Good

By: Pamela Leavey On: November 15, 2010 at 6:54 am

Change is good. We fight change. We deny that we can help to make a change. Change comes from the deep desire to have or see things differently. Then we take action. Affecting change, being an activist for causes we believe in gives us strength. ~~ Pamela J. Leavey

(Photo: Haystack on the Newbury Salt Marsh… c. Pamela J. Leavey 2010)

Plum Island Washes Out to Sea

By: Pamela Leavey On: March 27, 2009 at 6:16 pm

There’s a natural flow of tides that causes erosion on all beaches. Add to that storms and other natural effects and the landscape of a beach is constantly changing. I can remember as a child camping on Sandy Point on Plum Island (Newburyport, MA) and claiming a rock as my own. Much to my chagrin my rock was no where to be founf the following summer when my family set up camp on the Point for the summer.

While I was down in Newburyport last weekend I drove down to Plum Island because I had heard there had been problems there with homes built on the water front being at risk. The photo below is of the jetty at the Center Beach on Plum Island:

North Shore Magazine has an article about the situation on Plum Island: Last Days of Plum Island?

The romance and tranquility of Plum Island has lured homeowners to its long stretch of open shores for decades. But could the natural forces that spawned an entire community now threaten its very existence?

I’ve always been an ocean person, which is part of the reason I moved from Los Angeles, after nearly years there, back to the East Coast, to Eastport, Maine. Continue reading “Plum Island Washes Out to Sea” »