Thursday Afternoon

What a lovely day it was today, Thursday,  as I get this post ready.
I spent the day talking and having coffee with a friend.
Late  in the afternoon I went outside to take some photos for Friday Foto Friends  and SkyWatch Friday.
Why don't you join in? Surfing around to see all the photos is a wonderful way to spend some time on the net.
 The day was cool, even chilly in the morning and very breezy. The sun was shining beautifully and cast a golden glow on everything.
These photos are all taken in my own neighborhood. It's a pretty area, I think.
I took a number of videos of the bay as well and will post two here and the rest during the rest of the coming week.

Sun is going down Thursday June 7

Looking to the east across some salt marsh toward the open bay

Don't fence me in!

 

Looking westward over the cove. Open bay is to the right and the left...this is an island

the calm cove water

taking photos along the cove facing west

they added rocks to protect the bridge (which is a road over the rocky area there). The island was cut off after Sandy. We found a way around it but, this week it was finally finished and reopened.

comment from by passer to me: "Can you take photos of the sun and have them come out? "  "Yes" I said, "I can".  "How do you do it?" he asked.  I said, "I point and click the camera and voila.. "  "don't you need to do something special with the camera?" he wanted to know.    "Perhaps," I said, "but if so I don't know what it is. I just take them and they come out okay." We had a good chuckle from this and talked some more because his dog was cute ;). Advice to men: want to get a girl? Have a cute dog.

 

The bay island park is open again for the first time since hurricane Sandy which did much damage.
We are so happy about it!
The picnic tables are hand made and brand new!

Mr. Seagull is king of the park and sits atop his gazebo surveying his kingdom.

I took these videos in the park by my house which just reopened after hurricane Sandy nearly destroyed it.





For Pamela: In the photo below are the houses across the little lagoon(as I call it) that you see in the 3rd photo down from the top. It is really just a cove on the bay. My area is a peninsula that sticks out into the bay. (NJ is a peninsula and we carry that theme  to extremes around here!)
 These little lagoons criss-cross the area and houses line either side. They are a network of little watery roads all over the place.

 

Below is salt marsh and the open bay. Housing extends right out into the bay sometimes.

The dark line you see in the distance is the barrier islands. 

Barnegat Bay is narrow and shallow, though the inlet by the lighthouse is known for its huge 50ft and better swells  making it dangerous. The name Barnegat comes from the old Dutch as the area was settled by the Dutch.The name is a reference to the huge swells and waves at the inlet.

Thank you for visiting and please come again.