Tag: newport
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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October 25, 2007 05:26 PM EDT --
The Point is one of the oldest sections of Newport, going right back to the 1640s. Most of the houses on the lower end of the Point are restored colonials going back into the 1700s. Farther up Shingle . . .
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June 13, 2007 09:48 PM EDT --
A little while back I posted some pictures of my favorite graveyard, the Clifton Burying Ground, and Barb W had asked how old those graves were. As I told her then, most of the graves are from the 1700s, . . .
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August 29, 2007 09:34 PM EDT --
"When the ocean surges,
don't let me just hear it.
Let it splash inside my chest!"
- Rumí
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October 30, 2007 09:28 PM EDT --
No, this isn't about haunted houses in Newport, although I'm sure there are quite a bit more than a few. It's just that every year around Samhain I go on a photo safari through Newport's . . .
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February 02, 2008 04:26 PM EST --
I was on my way down to First Beach just to do a beachcombing stroll and maybe stop in Save the Bay's information center/museum under the carousel on the boardwalk (since they re-opened for their Winter . . .
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March 14, 2008 05:04 PM EDT --
...to paraphrase Mr. Zimmerman.
Watching the clouds roll through off Easton's Beach this morning.
And for all that it never did rain!
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June 27, 2007 11:53 PM EDT --
As I said in my previous article, the City of Newport, RI is hosting the Tall Ships Festival of 2007. I was all over the place taking the pictures you saw in the other article, and while waiting for the . . .
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January 12, 2008 07:51 PM EST --
I was on my usual walk today, but when I got down to the Green Bridge I heard noise ocean-ward, and when I looked over there I saw that the surf was up. LOL!!! That decided the rest of my hike - I headed . . .
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March 11, 2009 05:19 PM EDT --
I know a lot of people have had their flowers blooming for a bit now and have been flooding Gather with celebrations of Spring. But here on the New England coast Spring comes a bit more slowly and a little . . .
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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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March 13, 2008 07:12 PM EDT --
I came out of the tunnel under the Chinese Tea House and up the hill a little way and what did I see in the water but a group of Red-Fronted Mergansers. After watching them for a little while I saw the . . .
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October 30, 2009 11:57 PM EDT --
I looked at my morning email today and found the latest Friends of Ballard Park newsletter, and what do I learn but that today - October 30 - is Ballard Park's birthday. On October 30, 1990 . . .
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June 24, 2007 09:54 PM EDT --
Brenton Point in Newport is where Narragansett Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. There's a state park there, with a memorial to the Potuguese explorers (there's a large Portuguese population in the . . .
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October 14, 2007 05:43 PM EDT --
As I've noted before, because of the effect of the Atlantic Ocean, and especially the Gulf Stream, on Newport, we don't get the magnificent Fall foliage that they get inland. We do get some color, . . .
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June 27, 2007 11:09 PM EDT --
Tall Ships have once again invaded Narragansett Bay and Newport Harbor. The Tall Ships festival really starts tomorrow (Thursday June 28), but I only had today off in the entire time they're here, . . .
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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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January 11, 2009 04:17 PM EST --
Newport's ancient dead, scattered here and there throughout the town, Jew and gentile, Catholic and Protestant and Quaker, sleep the long sleep in hope of the resurrection. Today they snuggle deeper . . .
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January 25, 2009 07:04 PM EST --
It started out as several small ice rivulets and an icicle or two where seeping groundwater, moving down the rock seeking a lower level, froze in the falling temperatures. Then it snowed, a heavy wet . . .
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February 01, 2009 09:51 PM EST --
Walking through Ballard Park today, I noticed groupings of tree trunks. So, being who I am, I made a photo shoot of them. Back home and doing the processing, I found they worked best in black and white. . . .
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