Chatham Gardens

Sept 04 Chatham Gardens
Originally uploaded by ChathamGardens

It recently dawned on me that this summer will be the 5th summer of Chatham Gardens, a fact that boggles my mind. I thought it would be fun to look at the year to year changes in my landscaping and I put together a short album that includes one photo for each year for two different garden areas of my home.

The first is now named The Flag Garden and you can see why in the subsequent pictures. The second area is named The Lamppost Garden, though it could easily be named the Maple Tree Garden.

Just click on the picture and you will be directed to my Flickr page for the entire set. Later this summer I will include 08 pictures to the set and repost the link.

Sunrise at Lighthouse Beach

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Originally uploaded by ChathamGardens

Two days ago I posted a picture I took of the sun rising over the Atlantic Ocean at Lighthouse Beach. I took several pictures that day, from the first light in the sky until the Sun had cleared the horizon. I posted a series of the days pictures on Flickr which you can access by clicking on the picture which is linked to my Flickr site.


Yesterday I received an email from Chris Seufert, who is the administrator for a Flickr group called Chatham, Cape Cod Life asking me to include the above photo in this group.


I have admired Chris's photographs ever since I moved to Cape Cod as his photos are featured extensively in many Cape Cod and other New England magazines and I was thrilled to be asked to include one of my photos in a group associated with Chris. If I am lucky, I will be asked again.

Sunrise at Lighthouse Beach

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Originally uploaded by ChathamGardens

The same sun I photographed setting last night, returned in a pretty sunrise this morning. With a hot cup of coffee, a warm car and the battery in my camera recharged, I was witness to the day beginning, a favorite activity in every season.

Sunset At Hardings Beach

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Originally uploaded by ChathamGardens

Tonight was another spectacular Sunset over Nantucket Sound. I actually went out to capture pictures of the crescent moon that was going to be bathed in Earthshine and it was to be my first serious tripod experience.

Fortunately, the sunset made the effort totally worthwhile, because I was not successful in taking any decent photos of the moon. I will analyze what went wrong another day, but the first thing I realized was that even with the tripod, the simple act of depressing the shutter button caused enough camera shake to ruin every picture. So the first thing I did after looking at my photos was to order a remote control for my camera.

But, tomorrow is another day and there will be another moon and certainly another sunset to enjoy.