Tag: summer
member name: Roy ☯ Hilbinger
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July 17, 2007 07:12 PM EDT --
I've made a faux pas, a gaffe, a grave error! I've been a victim of my own horticultural hubris! I have (gasp) misidentified plants! No one accused me of this; I accuse myself.
Today during my . . .
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July 12, 2007 10:56 PM EDT --
So, last week on the 4th of July I took you on a tour of the lower trails in the Norman Bird Sanctuary (see the article here). This time we're back and we're going to climb (and that's literal . . .
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July 17, 2007 08:54 PM EDT --
The Sachuest Point National Wildlife Refuge was developed on the site of an old Navy shooting range and communications center. When I first wandered out there in the '70s it was still a wasteland of . . .
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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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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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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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July 31, 2007 10:54 PM EDT --
Today I went off the island (Newport is on an island in Narragansett Bay called Aquidneck Island) to go walk the East Bay Bike Path. This was built on an old abandoned local short rail railroad, and it . . .
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July 05, 2009 08:43 PM EDT --
I went out to Brenton Point State Park today to watch people fly kites. Brenton Point is the perfect place for this, being where Narragansett Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean, so there's always a breeze out . . .
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August 11, 2009 05:29 PM EDT --
I had been out walking for a bit yesterday despite the heat and humidity. I stopped at the grocery store for some this 'n' that, and going around back to take the shortcut home I heard an Osprey making . . .
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July 04, 2007 09:33 PM EDT --
The Norman Bird Sanctuary is in Middletown, RI, the next town over/up from us in Newport. The Sanctuary lies behind Second Beach, and up on the Ridge Trails in the Sanctuary you get some really gorgeous . . .
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July 01, 2009 08:47 PM EDT --
Whew! I went down to the Cliff Walk today (still chasing after slow shutter speed shots of waves crashing on rocks) and ended up getting caught in a very nasty thunderstorm. Actually it was probably about . . .
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July 18, 2009 08:03 PM EDT --
There are flowers everywhere you look in town now.
© 2009 by A. Roy Hilbinger
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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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August 12, 2009 11:30 AM EDT --
Despite being the hottest day so far in our Summer, and with the added insult of around 90 - 95% relative humidity, I went out for a walk. I even did a good stretch of the Cliff Walk, which has no shade . . .
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July 22, 2008 05:42 PM EDT --
Yup, it's that time again! We had Tropical Storm Cristobal pass by offshore overnight, so the surf was up some and the guys hit the water off Ruggles Ave., the best surfing spot in Rhode Island. Many . . .
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July 06, 2008 08:13 PM EDT --
I went on my usual Sunday hike down in Ballard Park and around Gooseneck Cove today. The meadow on the floor of the old quarry in Ballard Park is really alive right now - wildflowers and bugs of all kinds . . .
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August 20, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
Okay, this photo essay is pure eye candy. Today was absolutely gorgeous; we had a front come through yesterday evening, so today was sunny and dry (meaning NOT HUMID) with a beautiful 7 knot breeze out . . .
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August 14, 2008 06:19 PM EDT --
I went down to Block Island yesterday. Block Island lies about 12 miles off the coast of the Rhode Island mainland, and is about 20 miles southwest of Newport; you can only get there by ferry (from Newport, . . .
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July 20, 2009 03:13 PM EDT --
Two views of Gooseneck Cove, looking north from Ocean Drive. As you can see, it was a gorgeous day in Newport yesterday.
© 2009 by A. Roy Hilbinger
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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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