Postcards from the Imagination: Photo Journal, Cape Cod, Apr. 8-9

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Photo Journal, Cape Cod, Apr. 8-9

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Nauset Beach, Orleans

Wave crashing, Nauset Beach

Nauset Beach, long view

Rock Harbor, Orleans

Rock Harbor

I don't frankly know what this is, but looking at it I experience deja vu. I thought maybe it was a petrified dolphin carcass, but there's writing on it. Very odd. Rock Harbor. [Update 4/11: With Stuart's guidance I learned that the letters—"CCSN"—stand for "Cape Cod Stranding Network" and this is indeed a dolphin.]

Nauset Light, from a distance

Nauset Light Beach, Eastham

Nauset Light Beach

Three Sisters Lighthouses, Eastham

The Middle Sister

First Encounter Beach, Eastham

Self at First Encounter

Spohr Gardens, Falmouth
Jordan kindly recommended this place. Unfortunately, the time for daffodils is not yet. Spring takes it sweet time up here.

More Spohr Gardens

Nantucket Sound, Falmouth

Nantucket Sound

Another view

Last one

Posted by Ginger on April 9, 2006 10:15 PM | Permalink

Comments

Ginger, these photographs are beautiful.

Thinking of you here in Kentuckym,and hoping that you're okay and things work out.

Posted by: Pamela | April 10, 2006 08:51 AM

My god those are beautiful, you were really feeling it.

As far as the dolphin-looking thing, don't know, but I'd bet it is a dolphin, marked so that repeated sightings of it as it drifts and is eaten don't result in multiple reports of dead dolphins. When we were in Alaska, we saw what was unmistakably a drifting rotting orca carcass, with similar white letters on it.

Posted by: Stuart | April 10, 2006 06:54 PM

Wow. Thanks, guys! I hadn't expected that. :-) Honestly though, I'm not sure how one could go wrong given the overwhelming natural beauty of these places.

Posted by: Ginger | April 10, 2006 08:35 PM

Stuart, thanks for pointing me in the right direction The letters are "CCSN" and I now know they stand for "Cape Cod Stranding Network." Mystery solved. A little gruesome, but I admit fascinating in a quasi-scientific, quasi-philosophic way.

Posted by: Ginger | April 11, 2006 08:56 AM

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