First SnowFall

A view from outside my office during the first very light snowfall of the season.

November Sunsets - Ocean Beach Ponguogue

The sunset skies have been stunning this past week or so. So many evenings, driving home westward on Sunrise Highway, I am faced with colors too vivid to stare straight into...cloud layers, vapor trails, all manner of special effects... and me without my camera!

Last weekend I stayed at a friend's apartment in Hampton Bays while she was away, and made my way, finally, to the ocean to take some sunset shots. I was intrigued at how the scattered fishermen were able to stand so still and patient in the deep chill of ocean water and gusting wind...I took my shots from the shelter of the dune paths and even a few from my car, parked across the road from the entry to the Ponquogue bridge.

The colors were so intense, so blinding, that when I viewed them later on my laptop, they were too much for the little screen to handle; too many shades of reds and orange layered and streaking across the screen. This little camera of mine captured exactly what it saw as the molten yellow sun slid down into the ocean side horizen.