Tag: gooseneck cove
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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October 04, 2007 07:25 PM EDT --
My day off and I head right for my old stomping grounds to shake off the stress of the week. Here are some of the pictures I took on my walk.
In Ballard Park the main path in the northern part of the . . .
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August 28, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
I live in Newport, RI, and there's an area here that has become my spiritual home. It's where I go to recharge at least once a week, where I lose myself in nature, and where I often take my best . . .
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December 09, 2007 08:01 PM EST --
Miracle of miracles, another Sunday off! It was a chilly and overcast day, and a dead calm one, too. I went walking, and here are the results.
Ballard Park
The birds were avoiding me in the . . .
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December 11, 2009 11:06 PM EST --
Not long ago my fellow Blogger blogger Baino dropped a hint that she'd like to see a post on Gooseneck Cove through the seasons. Good idea, thinks I! Except I couldn't do it justice in my usual . . .
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September 28, 2007 09:45 PM EDT --
On my weekly walk through Ballard Park and around Gooseneck Cove today I noticed that the fall Asters are out in force, so I thought I'd share them with you.
First we have some Swamp Asters, also . . .
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November 02, 2007 04:50 PM EDT --
So I was out on my usual hike today, down to Ballard Park, then down Hazard Rd. to Gooseneck Cove. then over to the "country lane" loop. not much wildlife because the wind is up today and they're . . .
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December 06, 2007 04:34 PM EST --
The leaves have fallen from the trees, the temperatures have dropped, even the quality of daylight has changed. Winter is arriving, affecting the places I love best - Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. . . .
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January 08, 2008 06:38 PM EST --
On today's hike I bumped into some fellow birders down on Hazard Rd. by Gooseneck Cove. One of them regularly comes to feed the ducks cracked corn in the winter, so when they see his car they come . . .
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January 08, 2008 07:15 PM EST --
I was all set to do laundry today until I heard the weather forecast - mostly sunny and warm, with the high temps approaching 60. so naturally I heard the call of the wild and decided the laundry could . . .
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May 25, 2008 11:06 PM EDT --
My usual Sunday jaunt down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. The foliage is now full and there's lots of shade. There was a nice cooling breeze out of the NW but it was still a warm day.
In . . .
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June 20, 2008 05:08 PM EDT --
Today is the Summer Solstice, aka Litha, aka Midsummer. I went down to my spiritual home and did the things I do every year on this day, including putting new water from Gooseneck Cove in the antique glass . . .
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July 11, 2008 07:15 PM EDT --
I went walking down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove today. Our extreme humidity dried up some (well, as dry as it can get when you're surrounded by ocean and a bay), so hiking yesterday and today . . .
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July 26, 2008 05:37 PM EDT --
(Note: I am not sharing a post; I'm publishing an article, specifically a photo essay. Gather, will you PLEASE go back to using adult terminology?)
It's a nice sunny Saturday in Newport, . . .
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October 21, 2008 05:45 PM EDT --
Autumn colors are finally making their appearance here in Newport, where the ocean environment makes our Fall color season a little later and less vibrant than in inland New England. But at least the Maples . . .
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December 28, 2008 05:29 PM EST --
Add together these ingredients: the New England seacoast, still with some remnants of a snowstorm (snow piles) and cold weather (ice on standing water), overtaken by warm, wet air. The result: a fog so . . .
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April 04, 2009 05:39 PM EDT --
I was a little late getting out on my walk today. By the time I got to where I was going, everybody was taking a pre-lunch nap, like this Mute Swan couple on Gooseneck Cove and the Mallard couple on the . . .
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April 19, 2009 11:12 PM EDT --
Well, the Winter flocks have pretty much moved on; there are just a few Mallards and Canada Geese left who usually stay here year round. But the Pintails and the Teal and the Mergansers and the Grebes . . .
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November 15, 2009 05:47 PM EST --
Every two weeks a guy named Jay leads a bird walk from the Norman Bird Sanctuary in Middletown, RI. We don't just concentrate our attention on the sanctuary, but travel to different prime birding places . . .
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May 11, 2008 10:41 PM EDT --
I went on a loooooong hike today, and it has produced two, count 'em, two, photo essays. I've taken up geocaching recently, and that was the main purpose of today's hike. But I already found . . .
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November 01, 2008 07:30 PM EDT --
This was a good day for birding on Gooseneck Cove. My buddy Jack Kelly showed up not long after I'd gotten down there on Hazard Rd. I had been down the farther end of the road when I saw a Great Blue . . .
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