PTown Sunrise & Grebe
Last night I checked the weather report about 100 times - what else is new? :-). The wind was going to be more than I wanted but everything else seemed to be lining up for great possibilities. So I bundled up this morning and went to MacMillan Pier before sunrise. Unfortunately there was a skim coat of ice everywhere…so I took tiny steps all morning. What a glorious morning!! And another bonus - a Horned Grebe decided to give me amazing opportunities - I have been trying to photograph one of these guys from MacMillan for 2 years - this morning was the morning!
Here we go!
They Also Faced the Sea…
Is the name of this amazing installation on Fisherman’s Wharf in PTown Harbor. I have photographed it many times but this is the first morning that I was able to catch the first rays of the sunrise lighting up to the two windows.
The photographs were taken by Norma Holt of women of Portuguese decent.
“Portuguese women faced the sea in many ways: as mothers, wives, sisters, friends and family of fishermen, as cooks, laundresses, nurses, teachers and telephone operators. The kept the culture alive, sang the songs, danced the dances, buried the dead, gave birth, cooked the kale soup and the codfish and kept the church at the center of their lives. Above all, they were resilient through good times and bad, their strength and courage easily matching and supporting that of their male seafaring counterparts.” (Provincetown History Project)
The Horned Grebe putting on a show in amazing early morning light and shadows!
Another gift of an amazing morning…