July 19, 2011
July 18, 2011
It’s been a hot, dreary, rainy, thunder stormy day today on the river… so I’m reflecting on the visions of a sunny day as I watch the rain outside of my desk window…
(Photo: Dory at Lowell’s Boat Shop in Amesbury, MA ~~ © Pamela J. Leavey 2011)
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June 1, 2011
The Newburyport, MA area has been under a tornado watch since this afternoon and the watch has now been extended to 11:00 pm. Just a few hours ago a huge tornado hit Springfield, MA. NBC News reports:
Tornados are so rare in this area. I’m hoping they pass us by, right now we’re under a severe thunderstorm warning…
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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…)
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It’s another rainy today again and I’m dreaming of sights like this on the river:
It won’t be long now before the boats start going in the water…
(Photo: Point Shore Amesbury, MA August 2010 – c. Pamela J. Leavey)
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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)