Author: barryhassphoto

Some closeups of a catboat on Sandy Island.

These fuzzy little guys look cute enough to pet. But they secrete a chemical that can cause an allergic reaction.

The week before our annual vacation on Sandy Island this year was a wet one. So when we arrived, there were profusions of mushrooms everywhere.

Ready to mix and bake.

After the petals have fallen.

A goose dries his wings.

A palette of flowers reflected in the river.

A swallowtail feeds on swamp loosestrife.

A dead tree reaches out to grab a stand of purple loosestrife.

Along the Charles River in Newton.

On a porch in Chatham, Mass.

The artist Dale Chihuly creates fantastical worlds of blown glass. This is a small section of one of them, from an installation at the Museum of Fine Arts.in Boston in 2011. I was reminded of this picture by a post from my friend Lynn Holbein:(https://www.lynnholbein.com/2024/07/07/playing-with-color/

There are hundreds of daylilies in bloom now, in gardens and along roadsides. But the way the sunlight was hitting this one stopped me in my tracks.