My step daughter is at Logan airport. She’s taking a birthday trip out west and I hope she has a great time. Also, me being me, I am worried about her flight. You know how it is, right?
My wife and I are heading to Vermont to help my step son and his girlfriend out with some difficulties. This weekend I will drive from Methuen, MA to Burlington, VT and then from Methuen, MA to Boston, MA to Burlington, VT to Methuen, MA.
Wish us traveling folk some luck, m’kay? Thanks.
It’s been a while but I did something mildly creative this morning. Not really, but a little bit.
For the first time since August I filled up a back pack with cameras and went outside a-shootin’. Digital, film, the works.
More often than not when I start feeling the photo-takin’ need I head to the ocean at sunrise. That’s what I did today. As sunrises go it sort of blew chunks. The forecast I read last night said it would be clear skies at sunrise today. It was not. Not even close. There was a little gap between the horizon and the cloud cover that sort of let me see the sun when it rose, but it was a pretty underwhelming view. Thanks to our friend the Nikon Z5 with the cheap-ish 85mm Chinese made lens I can show you what I’m talking about…
At least the waves looked cool. They were about as high as this little corner of the Atlantic Ocean gets.
There’s our friend, Mr Sun. It was trying its best to break through.
My sunrise stop this morning was at Salisbury Beach which is on the Massachusetts side of the state line. I was planning on starting at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, but I needed to stop for gas and I knew there were a few stations on the way to Salisbury so I wouldn’t have to go out of my way. Also, Salisbury is closer to home so it gave me more time to take care of things before the sun came up.
After a few minutes on the beach I wandered around the area a little bit looking for things to shoot… and I ended up more or less shooting the same things that I almost always shoot when I go there. Oh well.
Someday I will be there when these lights are actually on.
Artsy chair pic alert:
Lame life preserver pic alert:
Every now and then the sun would break through the clouds and we’d get a few seconds of glorious golden hour light but the clouds kept getting in the way and blocking the sun. It was a little frustrating.
After a few minutes of wandering around I got in the car and drove up to Hampton Beach. That’s two towns North across the New Hampshire state line. I stopped at a usual fishing boat view. Again, the sun kept breaking through and going away. I think I got some good light here using one of the film cameras, but not so much using the digital.
As usual, let’s all say hello to the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plan before it blows up and melts everyone.
Out on the beach itself, would it surprise anyone to learn that this pic was a total accident? It probably shouldn’t.
The seagulls were my friends today. They mostly didn’t run away from me.
Again, when the sun cooperated the view was fantastic.
I left Hampton Beach and headed South to Plum Island to say hello to the Merrimack River and the Plum Island Lighthouse. I made the obligatory stop at the airfield as well.
By this time the sky was pretty blue. The clouds were losing the battle.
Is the water at Plum Island the bluest water on Earth? It’s gotta be in the running, right?
I mean… seriously… just look at that.
I don’t know anything about this boat except that I shoot it every time I come here.
And in closing… the Plum Island Lighthouse… which has to be the most underwhelming lighthouse in the world. I mean it’s not even as tall as the trees that surround it. It’s also not even on the water. It’s a little ways down the street from the river. How effective can it be?
There you have it. A few highlights from this morning’s wanderings. I also shot some film. I had a black and white roll in my FG-20 that was loaded back in August and still had a few shots left (Kentmere 400). Last night I put a roll of Lomography 800 into Dad’s K1000 and a roll of Kodak Gold 200 into my medium format camera. I finished all three rolls and mailed them off to the lab to get them developed. Hopefully I won’t have to wait too long to share the film version of this masterpiece of a post. Be on the lookout.
Will there be another photowalk tomorrow? Depends on the weather. I am off work again on Tuesday too so there could be something then, again if the weather cooperates. Hopefully it will be better than today but who knows.
It felt good to just go outside and shoot stuff, even if it was really cold on the water. Summer is coming. Maybe some day soon I’ll be able to repeat this experience without wearing a winter jacket. That would be sweet, huh?
It is that time of year again. The time where my loyal readers (all zero of you) start getting inundated with posts where I say something like, just you watch… tomorrow I’m going to go to the ocean and take pics of the sunrise.
I haven’t taken a photo-walk or anything like that since last August. Eight months. I have the day off tomorrow and the forecast calls for clear skies at sunrise. Let’s do this!
The way this works is… I say I am going to go to the ocean to take pics of the sunrise the next day, and then the next day arrives and I stay in bed. That’s how these things usually go. Will that be the case this time?
Probably.
Work kicked my ass today.
That was a tough one.
I have to get through tomorrow (Thursday). If I can do that in one piece I will get to Friday and I have Friday off. I desperately need tomorrow to not suck. I need things to not fall apart for just one day.
I think we can pull this off. Let me rephrase and say I hope we can pull this off.
Yikes, bro.
In our house, the cats are not allowed in the cellar. No. No kitties in the cellar, damn it!
Today, this little monster…
Lily… the gremlin… the queen of personality… she broke the law. Jen was coming up the cellar stairs and when she opened to door to come out, Lily darted past her and ran down the stairs.
That’s not the point of this post, I just wanted to share with the universe that Lily was a bad kitty today. Bad kitty!
Now for the actual topic I wanted to write a short (mercifully) post about tonight. The Boston Bruins are down in their first round playoff series. They trail the Buffalo Sabers three games to one. Tonight is game five.
Does the series, and by extension the season, come to an end tonight? It sure looks that way. I mean, I hope not but after the way they got the snot kicked out of them in game four it sure feels that way.
I have to say that I am still pretty pissed off at the entire NHL. Granted, only the players from team USA were involved, but the way they figuratively dropped to their knees and figuratively chugged down the nazi orange ass clown’s spooge (figuratively speaking)… it made me fucking sick and it made me kinda want to see the entire league lose. I hate feeling this way about my favorite game but what can I do? Fascists are evil and these fuckers lined up to be counted among them.
Damn it. Now Lily is asleep on the otoman… otaman… How the hell do you spell that anyway? Ottoman. There, that’s right. Thanks spell check. What was I saying? Oh yeah, Lily is asleep on the ottoman and she is so cute it’s ridiculous. I guess I can forgive her for going down cellar. I don’t know if I can forgive the NHL for being full of nazi ass wipes though.
Hey look, it’s Spring in New England or something.
Lily and Robin are pretty sure the orange nazi ass clown staged it all last night.
Both kids are here tonight so it’s game night and I won.
Think back to the bad old days of Taco the Nazi Orange Shit Clown’s first term. I used to joke that with all the bitching I sent toward him on twitter I was going to end up in front of the firing squad at some point. I wouldn’t be in the first round of executions and probably wouldn’t be in the second, third, forth, or fifth rounds. Eventually he’d get to me and I’d be finding myself in front of that wall staring down the barrels of the rifles held by my nazi toadie executioners.
Fast forward to teh bad current days of Taco the Nazi Orange Shit Clown’s second term. Last night he posted on his nazi fake-twitter that the nation is going to bring back a bunch of cruel and unusual execution methods. One of them was firing squads.
Yup… one step closer. Look at me being all Nostradamus and shit.
Here’s a cat to lighten the mood.
It’s a weird throwback kinda night. Allow me to explain (and in doing, demonstrate how lame I am).
We never cut the chord with cable TV. We just unplugged the box and only watched cable shows via their Apple TV apps. We had to sign in to our Verizon account in order to use those apps, but that was okay.
Recently, Verizon sent us a new cable box and we thought… what the hell, and hooked it up. Tonight, for the first time in years, possibly decades, I am sitting in the living room flipping between the Bruins vs Buffalo in game three of their first round play off series, and the Red Sox playing the Fucking Yankees at home.
The Bruins just scored to take a 1–0 lead in the second period. The Fucking Yankees just scored to take the lead in the seventh inning and they are now in position to finish a three game sweep. The Bruins are definitely the underdog in this first round series, but the series is tied at one. with the exception of the third period in game one they have looked decent. The Red Sox, however, in the early days of the 2026 season just… suck.
Change of subject, remember the post I made yesterday or the day before about Dave Mason passing away? I just saw a fucking beer commercial using Joe Cocker’s cover of Feeling Alright and it made me both sad and angry. Fuck you, beer company.
Change of subject again, we knew this was coming but tomorrow it arrives. My band’s drummer is moving out west. The band is pretty much over. I don’t see us finding a new drummer and surviving this. I am happy for him. This is a great opportunity for him and his wife. It’s really exciting and I wish them the best in the future. For the band though… rest in peace.
Back to the hockey, the Bruins just killed off a Buffalo power play. The Sabers have yet to score a power play goal in the series and we’re halfway through game three. Good job, Bruins.
I was just going to wrap this one up and click the publish button but then the Bruins were awarded a penalty shot. Let’s pause a moment to see how it goes.
The shot went wide.
Let’s hope that’s not a sign or an omen or anything like that.
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