This little Eastern Blue was so cute taking a bath in our bird bath here on Cape Cod. He wasn’t even afraid to bathe while the Mourning Dove stood by watching him. He then shook off on the side of the bird bath.
The last photograph shows him high on a branch in the tree drying off and warming up in the sun.
It must be almost spring. I’ve seen a lot of birds at our bird bath this winter getting a drink of water, but not too many having a bath! Too cute!
I took a ride to Nauset Beach, part of the National Seashore, in Orleans on Cape Cod yesterday was was so surprised to see how small the beach had become after the blizzard a couple of weeks ago. You can see the high water mark and it is pretty high. There’s only a few feet of beach for people to sit on at high tide.
The dunes at Nauset Beach were pretty eroded too and the walk down to the beach by Liam’s Restaurant was surprisingly steep. It almost seems like all of the sand that eroded from Nauset Beach ended up on Coast Guard Beach a few miles away.
I took these 2 photographs looking in opposite directions on the beach. The high water mark on the first photograph is pretty high!
We had to pick and choose our trails at Wiley Park this week with all of the downed trees. Many of them were blocking the trail. The winds were in excess of 65mph and many of the huge old Eastern White Pine trees fell.
Phil took this photograph of me hiking on one of the trails that we could maneuver at Wiley Park. The snow was so pretty…
The Christmas decorations at the Chatham Bars Inn on Cape Cod are just spectacular! This lifesize Gingerbread House is amazing! i could tell it was real because of the smell of the gingerbread cookies!
There is also a model train exhibit complete with gingerbread houses and stations, etc.
Very cool, don’t you think?
The holiday model train is awesome once again at Snows in Orleans on Cape Cod. Snows creates beautiful train exhibits for everyone to enjoy.
This time of year, it is the holiday train that is so special and so much fun for the whole family to see.
Snows always has model trains set up year round which the kids (and adults!) love! Come on by, I’m sure it will be up for a while.
My son was here for a few days and we took a walk around Orleans on Cape Cod one evening looking at the Christmas lights. We decided to vote on which ones we liked best. There were a lot to choose from!
I loved these Christmas lights at the Cottage Bakery that looked like cupcakes. Pretty, don’t you think?
We are huge Rolling Stones fans! We first saw them in concert in the 90s in Hartford, Connecticut and then in 2006 at a huge outdoor concert. They are truly amazing!
In honor of the Stones’ new album that debuts today, Blue & Lonesome, I thought I would post our new Rolling Stones oil painting. One of our friends in Colorado does wonderful oil paintings of some amazing people including The Stones, Beethoven, Steve Jobs and many, many more. Each one is unique unto itself.
We had been admiring this particular painting of The Rolling Stones for quite a while. So, when we were about to move I said to Phil, “It’s now or never. Do we want this in our new home?” Of course we both said, “YES!” And we love it!
Great painting, don’t you think?
When we went to the Open House at the Coast Guard Station at Coast Guard Beach on Cape Cod last weekend, there was a poster that showed the shipwrecks off of Cape Cod, which we were told was in the thousands. Wow!
This poster is unbelievable, don’t you think? With all of the sand bars and constantly shifting sands, it was very hard to sail around Cape Cod in the early days.
