Snowy Morning

The sand was frozen and there was a coating of snow on the beach but the sunrise was as beautiful as ever. With no hat or gloves, it will take me a few hours to thaw out but it was worth it.

Thanks John & Gloria

The fist few days we were here, I'd pop up well before the crack of dawn and gather my tripod and camera bag and set up on the beach waiting to photograph a beautiful sunrise. All three times, the sky was overcast and the sunrises were ho-hum. I quickly learned to pop out of bed and look out for stars. If I'd see them, well, maybe there would be a great sunrise. This morning I saw stars!

John and Gloria are our landlords for the month of January and they invited me to use their dock at Cedar Point to catch some sunrise photos. I took them up on that opportunity this morning and hopefully that wasn't their dog making a bunch of racket this morning trying to scare me off the dock. If so, I'm so sorry.

Anyway, the view was spectacular and I hope you enjoy the photos.

Wind Blown

The wind has been blowing all day today and tonight it is howling. In fact, gusts are around 60 and the cottage is swaying. Quiet day to day. We went to Jacksonville for lunch and then came home to catch up on laundry. I tried photographing the sand dunes but the sand was flying by smacking me in the face and so I only took a couple. But the sunset was unbelievable!

Fresh Start

One of the nice things about an early morning walk is that you get to be the first to put footprints in the sand. I was up very early this morning with hopes of getting nice sunrise photos of the Bogue Inlet Fishing Pier. The sunrise was rather ho-hum but the beach was beautiful.