Cocktail hour starts! My usual perfect Manhattan.
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's family 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 ON again to visit with Káča, spending the first night in Port Huron MI, before crossing the border. And from Lindsay on to Pine Point.
Cocktail hour starts! My usual perfect Manhattan.
Lobster roll -
the specialty of the house.
Sunset.
Colorful dawn prior to sunrise.
Reflections across the water.
Sunrise.
An unusual crocheted tire cover seen on Route 1.
Cindy loaned me her hat to keep the sun out of my eyes at dinner.
Sunset.
Predawn.
Predawn.
Predawn.
Clouds across the river.
Light play on clouds.
Sunset.
Sunset.
Predawn.
Predawn.
Sunrise reflection off of the wet sand at low tide.
Beth walking the sand bars.
Prouts Neck Pine.
Sunrise reflects off of sail boat.
Dinner photo by Beth.
Dinner photo by Beth.
Morning reflection on sand bars.
Blue sky and Prouts Neck pine in distance.
Blue sky and Prouts Neck pine in distance.
Lobsterman at work.
Replacing the kitchen cabinet knobs with blue glass sand dollars (obtained off of Etsy).
Afternoon light on the boats moored in the river.
Afternoon light reflecting on clouds.
Scarborough Town pier.
Peeking over the marsh grass at low tide.
Looking across the river to the inlet of the Nonesuch River.
A shot by Cindy at dinner.
Looking out the door of the cottage.
Predawn.
Predawn.
Predawn.
Predawn.
Sunrise reflecting off lobster boat.
Watermen headed to work (checking his phone).
Watermen with cloud formation.
Still on the way.
Jonathan silhouetted.
Sunset.
Sunset.
Sunset.
Sunset.
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.
The reason we spend the night in Perrysburg OH.
Reward for the day's drive.
Back home in St. Paul at Dark Horse.
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.