Sea Glass
posted about 1 year ago | 0 comments
Thrown into the surf after being broken
Clear and bright with sharp edges that pierce and slice
Tossed for years in a turbulent environment
Where all is movement and confusion
One day it lies on the beach at low ...
Walking the beach after Earl
posted about 1 year ago, updated 2 minutes later | 1 comment
The strong wind , out of the west , carries the sweet watermelon smell of bunker through the early morning darkness . Somewhere out there, a school of bluefish is probably tearing through a school of bunker , creating the smell, but I have not bro...
Sunken Lane
posted about 1 year ago | 2 comments
It was a quiet Maryland farm road just outside the town of Sharpsburg that during its 150 or so years of use had been worn down and eroded by horses and wagons until it formed a sort of trench that was several feet below the surrounding fields .
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Summer Sunday
posted about 1 year ago, updated 2 days later | 2 comments
7 A.M. I have finished my 3 mile walk on the boardwalk .I am in the garden picking snow peas to the sound of our standard summer serenade;the wail of sirens as rescue goes to pull another floundering swimmer , or lifeless body out of the surf . We...
My Job
posted over 2 years ago, updated 3 minutes later | 6 comments
I have been retired for 3 years now . Several months ago , I took on a part-time job as night concierge at a large beach front luxury condo about a ten minute walk from my house .I did it partly because my wife ( and I ) thought it would be good f...
Jan Vintje's Trip
posted over 2 years ago, updated 22 days later | 0 comments
Jan was a big man in everything but height . Though he was about average height , he had a huge head , thick neck , broad shoulders , very deep chest , powerful shoulders and arms and massive thighs and calves . Though not at all fat , he packed o...
John Wesley Fulkerson
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 1 year later | 3 comments
John Wesley Fulkerson was born on a farm in Grayson County Kentucky in 1886 . His family was one of the oldest in the United States, having come to Nieuw Amsterdam on the very first shipload of Dutch immigrants in 1613 . At the time of his birth ,...
The Mullet Run Part 3
posted over 3 years ago, updated 1 day later | 2 comments
As I change lures , each swell lifts me off the bottom a couple of inches and drops me back down as it passes in a slow dance .I watch the mullet near the end of the jetty . A 30 pound striper rips into the school . They scatter , but regroup quic...
The Mullet Run Part 2
posted over 3 years ago, updated about 1 year later | 0 comments
I make my first cast . The swimming plug is too light and not very aerodynamic . It is like trying to throw a beachball . It goes about 30 yards .I retrieve it slowly , letting its wiggling action do the work .It comes through the school of mullet...
The Mullet Run
posted over 3 years ago, updated 2 days later | 0 comments
It is early September, a high pressure system is sitting in the Atlantic off of Long Island , bringing with it a cool , dry wind out of the northwest .The tide started going out 3 hours ago . As it flows out of the bays and through the inlets ,it ...
