Hurricane Irene blew through bringing floods and high winds. The beach disappeared under a high tide that washed the kayaks...

Racing to get to the beach before the sunset last night I snapped the birds on the dock before I noticed the flash was on. What should hav...

Sailing at sunset, into the thunderstorm.

Setting sun over Lloyd Harbor with Huntington Lighthouse in the foreground

Wednesday evening: race round the bay. From Lloyd Harbor to the Long Island Sound to Eaton's Neck and back to Huntington harbor

Finally, the rain stopped The sun came out-and so did the bunny the sun set and set again and again. Sunsets on the bay. It never gets old.

Appropriately, on Armistice Day November 11 2010 after days of pounding surf that made Long Island Sound look like the North Sea, the wind d...

We were denied our morning beach walk twice this week for no reason other than poor planning on my part meant we arrived at high tide both d...

would be here or here but who would have the audacious landscape design chops to build it right at the bottom of the beach access steps? I...

Fall on Long Island's North Shore: The water is crystal clear and the sky as blue as the fencing that's been bobbing around the Bay ...

A touch of bright orangey-red to brighten your day while outside the Sound pounds the beach and the rain clouds glower

Halloween was eerily warm and spookily windy; a strong breeze out of the south whipped the water and kept the clouds scurrying across the ba...

I missed the sunset tonight, but I'm considering myself compensated.

Around the middle of last week I got a call from the Awesome Designer to say she was on her way over with a couple of things she thought m...

Alien life form? Back view of a Great Owl? Chewbacca headpiece? Monstrous apparition? Alerted by a thwick, thwick noise, the sound of someth...

Caught on the big blue spruce and brought to me by The Grey Knight (formerly known as The Guy) who thought I'd appreciate it and maybe ...

I've gotten used to the thick, white cobwebs that form lacy patterns under the windows on the exterior of The Cool House. They appear ...

After a morning spent shuttling Sadie the Dog to the vet for what feels like the fifteenth time in the last month and an afternoon at my des...

Just a few terns and gulls snoozing on the jetty -a pretty good way to spend a Friday afternoon in summer

Cormorants , or shags as they are also called, and a random gull grooming themselves on the pontoon at the beach. The big brown seabird hog...