Káča and Jonathan at the restaurant.
There isn't much narrative to present - it was the usual Pine Point vacation: walking on sand bars in the morning, supervising the tide in the afternoon, and convening the family and friends for a communal dinner in the evening. Even the pictures are repetitious! Everyone free to do their own thing. It was wonderful!
Some nomenclature - 81JCD refers to the “Little House” that Cindy and I bought in 2010 at 81 Jones Creek Drive. The “King Cottage” or just “the cottage” refers to the shack that my great-great-grandfather Cyrus Shaw King bought in the 1880s. The cottage is across the street at 82 Jones Creek Drive and overlooks the tidal marsh. The “Big House” would refer to the house now owned by my cousin Sally that was purchased by my grandfather Howard King Sr some time back in the 1950s (I'm guessing).
We drove again, about 1,600 miles by Google Maps. We traveled by way of Lindsay Ontario again to visit with Káča, spending the first night in Port Huron MI, before crossing the border. And from Lindsay on to Pine Point.
Káča and Jonathan at the restaurant.
Flowers with bee in front VT garden
More VT garden
Bayley's was well stocked today
Jigsaw puzzle on a rainy day
Sunrise reflections against a misty background
Ducks in the creek
Neighbor Sabin out on his motorized board
Black crowned night heron on the mudflats
Cocktail hour – Mike and Jonathan
Cocktail hour – Diane and Brenda
Birthday girl!
Early morning at the town pier
Sunrise reflection over the pier
Boats in the Scarborough River
Nonesuch Oyster Farm
Tying up the lobster boat for the night
A low flying plane following the river downstream
Another colorful sunrise
Ibid
Late afternoon sun illuminating a lobster boat with a thunderstorm in the distance
Snowy egret
The vole that lives between the stones of the breakwater
Rush hour on Jones Creek — Sabin and Dan Ribreau
Sunset at high tide
Yet another colorful sunrise (I don't get tired of them!)
Snowy egret
Cormorant caught a flounder in the creek
Chipmunk at the King Cottage (she trades shifts with the vole)
Taking hardware out to the oyster farm
Distant cloud formations
Cocktail hour with cocktails – a Gibson for Jonathan, and a perfect Manhattan for me
Double rainbow (click to see undistorted image)
Rainbow reflections
Sunset
Settled in for the evening
Twilight across the marsh
M'lyn celebrating the first hours of her retirement
Morning at the beach before sunrise
Sand dollar, clam shell and seaweed
Sail boat anchored off the beach and Prouts Neck – the Wood Island lighthouse in the distance
The Prouts Neck pine
The Wood Island lighthouse
Blueberry thief
Bright green seaweed on the beach
Blueberry thief 2
Sparrow of indeterminate variety
Cloud bank casting shadow
It takes two days travel back to Saint Paul, and we like to swing through West Lafayette IN to visit friend and former colleague Barb for breakfast.
Our usual watering hole in Perrysburg (Toledo) OH - Cocina De Carlos
Our usual watering hole in Saint Paul MN - Salut Bar Americáin
We returned to Pine Point in August for cousin Sally's memorial.
Moonset over Old Orchard
(12 Aug)
Sunrise over the Point
(12 Aug)
I believe Cindy took this snap of me
(13 Aug)
Second cousins Greg and Mason
Monica, Greg, and Mason
Robin and Nicole
Mason and Claire taking in the sunset
Mike also taking in the sunset
The rest of the family joins
The background on the webpages for this trip is a shot of the marsh grasses on the back side of the point in 2021. I've altered the color, but not the pattern, to match the color scheme of this site. For my own memory: this is done in Photoshop, not Lightroom. Fiddling with the properties the Hue/Saturation adjustment has a 'colorize' option, where I ended up selecting the values +60 hue, +15 saturation, and 0 lightness.
The images on the site, unless otherwise noted, were taken using an Olympus E-M10 II (4608 x 3456 pixel RAW file, ~16 MB) or an iPhone 11.
I've whittled the image size down to two sizes - a thumbnail I use on the page for the day, and a 1280x960 pixel (or 960x1280 pixel, assuming I haven't cropped or altered the size) image that I've saved optimized for web usage.
A lot of the images I doctored using Lightroom, a trimmed down version of Adobe Photoshop. My most frequent adjustments were: "Crop", "Adjust Light & Shadows" to cope with the extremes of light and dark, "Auto Contrast" and "Auto Levels". I've occasionly tweaked up the vibrance on some of the shots to emphasize the color.