Tag: newport
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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December 23, 2009 04:35 PM EST --
Just some shots taken while walking the streets of Newport today and yesterday, catching the town in festive garb amidst the snow of the weekend storm. Even though the next two days may take us close . . .
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December 20, 2009 06:26 PM EST --
Last year on Dec. 19 we got a monster snow storm which lasted into the morning hours of Dec. 20. I wandered around on the 20th taking pictures and posted a photo essay here on Gather. Wouldn't you know . . .
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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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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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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 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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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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November 22, 2007 04:27 PM EST --
I went out for a walk down to my favorite hangouts in the south end of Newport this morning, and I discovered that the Beeches have finally changed color. Hooray! Of course, the Maples have been changing . . .
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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 09, 2008 08:56 PM EDT --
After I walked through Ballard Park I figured I'd head down Ruggles Ave. towards the Cliff Walk. We had a storm yesterday and there was still a good breeze blowing, so I just knew the surf was up and . . .
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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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March 25, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
After a library visit this morning I went around the Spring St. and Bellevue Ave. area with the camera looking for interesting architectural details, the idea coming from the patina-ed bronze spire on . . .
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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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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 20, 2007 09:47 AM EST --
Some of the shots I used in my Winter Solstice video come from my pre-digital camera days, and they still seem to hold up, althought they tend to be grainier than I remember (some of them were shot at . . .
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January 28, 2008 05:30 PM EST --
We had a nor'easter blow through overnight that left a little snow - an inch or two. I had stuff to do at the computer today, but I decided to take a quick run down to Ballard Park to look at what . . .
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February 15, 2008 04:55 PM EST --
"I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide
Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied;
And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying,
And the flung . . .
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March 03, 2008 05:07 PM EST --
Low tide here was at 10:14 am. I decided to include a walk on the beach as part of my walk to the grocery store this morning. This is what I saw.
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March 11, 2008 03:59 PM EDT --
I took a walk down to the beach and back this morning. These are some of the things that caught my eye.
Easter is so early this year that I was wondering if there would be any Spring flowers up in . . .
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