Snowy winter on Cape Cod

You’d think I would post more since I’ve been somewhat housebound through the recent snowstorms. I have managed to get out quite a bit and to be honest, January was a crazy busy month for me between online sales, workshops, classes and talks. I’ve been writing my columns but not writing here.

Scenes like this have been common this winter….

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as have scenes like this….007

Birds like this male cardinal have had to persevere through the storms in order to find food…006

You know what they say about red sky in the morning….002

Those red morning skies can make for scenes that look more like the arctic than Cape Cod….
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We have become very familiar with many, many shades of gray….009

But some days the sun does still come out and fat little squirrels like this pregnant lady come out to stuff their faces….009

No doubt hoping the resident red tailed hawk isn’t looking for dinner…010It’s been a long snowy winter here on the Cape with more storminess predicted for the end of this week. I don’t know about you, but I am feeling winter weary.

 

 

Welcome to 2014

For the last few years we’ve gotten up early on New Year’s Day and headed down Cape just for the fun of it. We walk a few beaches, take a lot of pictures, find a new place to get lunch and just give the year a nice mellow start out in nature together.

Yesterday we began our day at Fort Hill. A car had been driving along behind me all the way up the highway and on Rt. 6 and then followed us right up into the Fort Hill parking lot. It ended up being a birder I know who was out beginning his new list of birds seen in the new year. Sort of funny we ended up at the same place at exactly the same time, right?

001After that stop we went to Coast Guard Beach where it was very, very cold and windy….but beautiful!

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008You can see the clouds coming in over the water, ahead of the storm predicted for today and tomorrow.

We backtracked to First Encounter Beach where the tide was so high the marsh was totally flooded and there was little beach left on the front. Check out the waves–that is ice in the water!

011Race Point was beautiful as well…

014In Provincetown center the lobster pot holiday tree still stands…

023And on the way home we stopped off at Pilgrim Heights in Truro where the view was stunning, as usual.

028It was good to get out yesterday because today it looks like this at the beach…

007We are supposed to get quite a lot of snow and wind over the next two days so after my little jaunt out to the beach this morning I’m ready to snuggle in with my honey and the pets, my sketchbook and a good book or two….