Am I busy? Yes, still. So are you going to get more photo dump of our Silver Beach photos? Yes, still. Will you enjoy? I don't know, that's on you.
Around the carousel are a couple of ride or ride pieces, possibly merely from things like the amusement park used to have, and since it was October, they had skeletons.
This was once a ticket booth but they'd set a robot witch up in it as though a fortune teller.
Bumper car that's lost its skeleton.
And a decoration on the side that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger tolerated but didn't care for.
Now to the main part of the day, which was enjoying the beach. I didn't start taking pictures until late in the day.
I remember playing this album like four times a day in college.
bunnyhugger trying to get her dragon kite to fly; it would get up a little bit but never really caught the upper winds.
Still, it always makes for great eye-catching ribbons of light and color.
I liked the way the shadow of the fence and the shadow of footprints interacted here.
I don't know how this happened. I think I was trying to get a picture of the guy occluding the sun and somehow my camera made it into a weird double exposure moment.
One of the historical plaques in the area, this one explaining the park. And why do I say 'one of'? You'll see.
``Why do photographers call this the Golden Hour?''
Trivia: Russian Empress Catherine the Great proclaimed the League of Armed Neutrality in February 1780 in response to Spain --- recently joined the American Revolution --- seizing and auctioning off a Dutch ship carrying cargo for Russia, and then the similar seizing of a Russian ship. Source: The Diplomacy of the American Revolution, Samuel Flagg Bemis. Spain had pronounced a broader range of cargos and shipping activity to be bringing war materials to the enemy than France or the United Kingdom did.
Currently Reading: Walt Kelly's Pogo and Albert: At the Mercy of the Elephants, Walt Kelly. Editor Mark Burstein.
