October 13

October 13, 2008 by OrientSee.

The best part of the day went without a picture.

I was walking over to the Boardwalk from the Overlook out in the marsh flats. I turned for no particular reason and saw a Harrier surf over the top of a phragmites stand and float down to the grass as if he had slid down the face of a wave. He elegantly cruised inches above the grass and then topped over the reeds on the south dike. I stood dumbfounded with the camera strapped around my neck and never once thought to use it.  William Butler Yeats would have written about gyres and grabbed your heart with his words. The marsh hawk simply flew.

I saw a lot of things along Lawn Ave. this morning.

I never noticed this tree planted in front of one house till now. It was full of bristly balls that contained nuts. The bristles were quite sharp.

The view back towards Rosie’s yielded the sight of fire in a tree. It was a bittersweet vine that had climbed up into the canopy of a mulberry tree. It looked like a fire clinging to the tree.

Near the entrance to the Overlook trail, the sun backlit a stand of foxtails.

There were six or so Great Egrets and three Great Blue Herons scattered across the flats. The Overlook panne had some shorebirds that were hard to identify in the morning glare. The creek was nearing high tide and this lone cormorant was diving for fish by the Beachmont school.

The nice weather has been great and the full moon is a cap to a terrific day.

Ciao!

-Jorge

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