"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

“You throw the sand against the wind and the wind blows it back again.” ~William Blake

"They
who dream by day
are cognizant
of many things
which escape those
who dream
only by night."

~Edgar Allan Poe

Memorial Day Weekend on
the Brewster flats.
Cape Cod.

“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world” ~Oscar Wilde

I
love
moonlight.

"No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky."
~Llewelyn Powys.