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Foggy Beach, Damp Dog

June 14, 2018by tompostpile 7 Comments

Yesterday was off-and-on rainy, and as the rain eased off, the afternoon got foggy. The sight of a bored dog perched on the back of the sofa made us think […]

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2018, Black Point Beach, Color, Coquina, Martha's Vineyard, photograph, South Beach

Early Spring Opening.

March 31, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

Most of the tompostpile’s March has been “Japan”. I’m not done with Japan. I never will be. Sorting through the experience, and through the thousands of photos taken, will take […]

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2018, Birds, Black Point Beach, Coquina, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo, South Beach, Words

Black Point In Deep Water

March 5, 2018by tompostpile 8 Comments

The last few months have been exceptionally wet. The Great Ponds have been getting higher than usual. Two weeks ago, the pup and I went down to see how things were, […]

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2018, Black Point Beach, Coquina, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, South Beach

Foggy Fields and a Serendipitous Surprise.

February 18, 2018by tompostpile 4 Comments

New England is not rich in flat land, but it’s flat in a few places around here. On the gentle southward slope of the Island’s outwash plain, there’s flatness to […]

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2018, Birds, Black Point Beach, Coquina, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo, South Beach, trees

Scenes on the Shore

February 15, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

We’re on the South Shore a lot these days, what with exercising the doglet, but she’s had so many posts lately that we’ll leave her out of this one, and […]

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2018, Abstracts, Black Point Beach, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, Quansoo

Play Date

January 15, 2018by tompostpile Leave a comment

“Lila loves to play…” (Hint, hint…) That’s what MP’s been saying for months. So we finally got together, and got Lila and Coquina together, down at the beach. There’s a mismatch […]

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2018, Black Point Beach, Coquina, Martha's Vineyard, photograph

Littoral Panoramae

December 13, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

If you have spent any time at the tompostpile, you know that I frequently go the Martha’s Vineyard’s south shore beach, in particular to Quansoo and Black Point Beaches. They […]

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2017, Black Point Beach, Essay, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph

Fall: Marsh & Pond, Golds and Blues

November 12, 2017by tompostpile 4 Comments

What you might see from dunetop on a raking-sun late November afternoon.                              

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2017, Birds, Black Point Beach, Color, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, South Beach, trees

Find the Deer, Part the Second.

November 2, 2017by tompostpile 1 Comment

Can you find the deer? Here are cropped photos from “Find the Deer, Part the First”. Hint: It’s walking left to right. The next photo was taken a few seconds […]

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2017, Black Point Beach, Landscapes, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, South Beach

Find the Deer, Part the First.

November 1, 2017by tompostpile Leave a comment

Yesterday afternoon about a half hour before sunset I took two photographs. The view is from the Black Point dunes, looking to the salt marsh, field, brush and woods to […]

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2017, Black Point Beach, Martha's Vineyard, Nature, photograph, South Beach

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