Tag: gooseneck cove
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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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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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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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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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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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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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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December 20, 2008 06:16 PM EST --
We finally got a good snow storm, and just a couple of days before the Winter Solstice. Timing is everything! I went for a walk to see the sights in my spiritual home in Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. . . .
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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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October 25, 2009 07:10 PM EDT --
Down on Gooseneck Cove Fall colors are reflecting in the water and lighting the place up. I managed to get some pictures of that today, as well as the multicolored leaves on one of the trails in Ballard . . .
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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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April 20, 2008 05:17 PM EDT --
This week's Sunday stroll took me back down to Ballard Park and Gooseneck Cove. Spring is a little more evident this week, as you'll see. There's more green, the birds are more active, and . . .
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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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February 15, 2009 09:15 PM EST --
On my walk today I didn't find much in the way of wildlife, but it did yield some nice landscape shots. And oddly enough, I took pictures of three different coves, two coming off the ocean - Gooseneck . . .
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June 26, 2009 05:09 PM EDT --
I went walking yesterday, seeing as it would be the last rainless day for at least a week. I took a lot of pictures, but most of them were experiments that didn't work. However, I got these three, which . . .
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February 07, 2008 05:46 PM EST --
I looked at the weather radar this morning and saw I had a pretty wide window between areas of rain, so I headed out the door. It stayed overcast most of the time, so the photographing was pretty good. . . .
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