"What is joy? A sunbeam between two clouds."~Dorthee DeLuzy

"Cheerfulness
keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind,
filling it with a steady
and perpetual
serenity."

~Joseph Addison

Images taken at Linnell Landing, Brewster.
Cape Cod.

Summer 2008.

"The air of summer was sweeter than wine."~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There’s something almost majestic about the night. Especially tonight with the fog. . . the way it eerily creeps its way through the weeds and covers the earth like a wet blanket. There’s no wind. The street lights cast their hazy, halo-like glow through the mist, mirroring their reflections in the puddles beneath them. It’s quiet. It’s the kind of deafening silence that makes you feel as if you’re the only person left in the world. . .

The fog evokes a feeling like I've been here before. It's mysterious and otherworldly in some way. . . like something you'd read about in a fairytale.

Images taken at Paine's Creek and Point of Rocks Beach
Brewster.

June 28th, 2008

"Nature hath appointed the twilight as a bridge to pass us out of day into night."~Thomas Fuller

"The moments
of happiness we enjoy
take us by surprise...
it's not that we seize them,
but that they
seize us."

~Ashley Montagu

Pleasant Bay at sundown.
Chatham, Cape Cod.

"The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!"~Philip James Bailey

Photos taken at Rock Harbor, Orleans.

June 25th, 2008.

It wasn't the most dramatic sunset I had ever seen but everything about the atmosphere around these shots just screamed summer. There were crowds of people everywhere. . . A reggae band in the background which only added to the excitement. . . the smell of charcoal smoke clung to salty humid air. . . and then the finale; a sunset which, even though it sort of fizzled in the end is still something I'm so grateful to have the opportunity to witness whenever I get the chance.

"The setting sun, 
and music at the close, 
As the last taste of sweets, 
is sweetest last, 
Writ in remembrance 
more than things 
long past."

~William Shakespeare

Rock Harbor sunset
Cape Cod

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” ~Francis Bacon

"All changes,
even the most longed for,
have their melancholy;
for what we leave behind us
is a part of
ourselves;
we must die to one life
before
we can enter
another."

~Anatole France

Stage Harbor at dusk.
Chatham, Cape Cod.

"Earth laughs in flowers." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I couldn't resist capturing the beauty of this flower before it goes by. . .
-photo taken in my back yard. Brewster.

"Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity."
~John Ruskin

"Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires."~Lao-Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"In your light
I learn
how to love.
In your beauty,
how to make
poems."

~Rumi

Evening of the summer solstice.
Cotchpinicut Landing.
Chatham, MA.

"There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million." ~Walt Streightiff

"The end of childhood
is when things cease to astonish us.
When the world
seems familiar,
when one has got used to existence,
one has become an adult."

~Eugene Ionesco

Images taken at Linnell Landing,
Brewster, Cape Cod.
Joanna Vaughan Photography