From a Nor'easter To Nice!

A pretty nasty Nor'easter hit us during the week. High winds and 6" of rain brought down trees, flooded roadways and caused scattered power outages. While working the midnight shift I noticed torrents of water cascading under the doors into the garage. After inspection I discovered the drains were clogged with leaves. It required three trips during the night to keep the drains clear. My ride home, normally 25 minutes was actually 1 hour and 10 minutes due to flooded roads, downed trees and heavy and I mean HEAVY traffic! Other than a downspout pulling away from my house, we survived just fine. But a tree toppled into a clearing I created for the dogs in the nearby woods.......Nobody heard it fall!

Water pours under the garage doors (Video capture from the security monitor)

 Flooding roadway!

 Downed tree!

 The footbridge at Good Harbor Beach.

 Not a beach day!

 Rough surf

                                 "Phyllis A." under repair.  
                           
"Padre Pio" sports a new paint scheme.
                           
Catching a wave!

 The curl closing in.

 In the foam!

 Breaker hits the Dog Bar Breakwater!

 Eastern Point Light

 Fall color of Woodward Avenue.

 City Hall late afternoon.

 Half Moon Beach

 Sunset over the harbor.

Late Afternoon Until Dusk!

Sometimes I get the urge to shoot late afternoon into dusk which I did the last few days. With the days getting shorter and cooler this is the time of year I was deep into football for 20 years. That's how long I coached high school football and never really had the chance to admire the Fall colors.

Frenchman's Pier

 Dock stretches out to Little River.

 Along the tracks.

 Essex Avenue train bridge.

 Fishermen's Memorial

 Geese heading south for the winter.

 A closer look.

 Using a flash.

 Almost too much flash!

 Gentile Bandsatand

 Looking out over the harbor from Stage Fort Park.

A little closer.

Park benches

                           
 City Hall

 Gloucester skyline

 Sighting down the barrel.

 Future home of the Beauport Hotel.

 Gull on a piling.

 The sun has set over Gloucester Harbor.

Blood Moon & Early Fall Colors!

Many images I post happen by chance, that's what happened this past week when I stumbled on the "Blood Moon". Seeing a pretty good sunset brewing I headed to the Boulevard to see if I could capture the sunset behind the Fishermen's Memorial. Stuck in slow traffic I could see I might get there too late. Sure enough the best of the sunset had passed but I did get a couple of descent shots. On my way home I hoped there might be enough light at Good Harbor Beach to capture the pink/orange clouds. As soon as the beach came into view I knew I was too late, darkness was taking over. As I drove past the footbridge there it was, the "Blood Moon" rising behind Salt Island. I never had a clue but there it was.

"Blood Moon" rising!

 Beach goers catch the show.

 I didn't notice people on Salt Island until I downloaded this!

 Here it is in the true light.

 I had to adjust the contrast to bring out the surroundings.

 Rising a little higher.

 "The House" at Good Harbor Beach.

 High tide at Little River.

 The colors are starting to show at Buswell Pond.

Late afternoon light.

 Reflections!

 Off Cape Ann from my office in Middleton.

 Fishermen's Memorial

 The sun has set.