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April 5, 2011
One of the things I love about where I live on the Merrimack River is that I have a wonderful view of the western sky in the evening. After a couple of days of rain, the clouds started to part early this evening and I looked out of my kitchen window to see a streak of pink across the sky. I grabbed my camera and took this from desk window:
And then I headed out the front door to catch a little view of the lovely sky with my lens… (more…)
April 4, 2011
It’s rainy and gray on the river today and apparently there will be more of that for the next couple of days… There will be no cleaning up the front flower garden until the rain stops.
I’m excited to share that I received a request from a friend today to use one of my photos of a small boat on the river for the newsletter of Newburyport’s American Yatch Club. I’ll have a PDF copy of the newsletter in a few days and will upload that so that readers can see the photo.
In the meantime I’m waiting patiently as many are for Spring to arrive full force. The last of snow piled up from the snow plow has finally melted down in the back yard and I’m anxious to till the vegetable garden plot and enlarge it from last year’s late planting when I moved into my river view apartment.
For now I’ll just watch the birds here in the back yard and on the river and dream of sunny days to come.
(Photo: Canadian Geese at Plum Island River, Newbury Salt Marsh, March 2011 — c. Pamela J. Leavey)
A little local info… The Plum Island River connects the Parker River to the Merrimack River at the mouth of the Merrimack and it separates Plum Island from the mainland. Plum Island is the home of the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge, which is a prime birding location.
April 1, 2011
Mother Nature played a joke on most of New England today: Snow.
I was hoping that we’d be spared here near the mouth of the Merrimack River and only have rain. No such luck. I went outside last night briefly at about 11:00 pm and there was a light blanket of snow on the ground. At 7:00 am I awoke to a power outage. With all the snow storms we had all winter, there was not one outage. Now it happens. Thankfully the power was back on within a couple of hours.
Tomorrow we should see some sun and warmer temperatures here on the river while we’re waiting for spring. We need more lovely days like this for the trees to start budding and the spring flowers to burst out of their winter cover and shine in the sun:
(Photo: Seagulls at Joppa Flats in Newburyport, MA, March 2011 ~~ © Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
March 30, 2011
Just a short walk from home is this view on the river…
(Photo of Point Shore area in Amesbury, MA – © Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
March 29, 2011
There was a rather brazen bank robbery in downtown Newburyport today at the TD Bank on State Street. This seems like such a foolish and desperate act to walk in to a bank like this and rob it…
And sadder fact, he’s still not been caught.
Where were the Newburyport Police Department when this went down? Hello?
UPDATE (3/30/11): More from the Newburyport Daily News… Search continues for robber of downtown’s TD Bank.
Yesterday I posted a photo of the Merrimack River taken from Lowell’s Boat Shop on Point Shore in Amesbury, MA. There was a small boat in the foreground of the photo. Here’s a closeup of the boat…
The light from the late afternoon sun created an almost black and white effect reflecting off the river and the first boat in the water at Lowell’s.
Everyday here on the river is a gift… I can’t help but want to share the view!
(Photo: Boat in the River at Point Shore in Amesbury – March 2011 – c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
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