So down at the family yacht club there is an event held every year around late May to signal the start of season. It's when everyone gets together, the new Commodore says a few words, the flags are raised, and summer is officially welcomed! (There used to be a canon blast too, to conclude the ceremonies, but due to some incidents and recent burns that part of the agenda was replaced by a paper...
High school sailing... I remember those days, long days at school followed by long hours on the water. Sometimes you would get lucky and it would be sunny and seasonably warm. Most days it was cloudy, or raining, or even frigid and snowing. Either way, I had a blast and definitely carry fond memories of my team (Go NK!). Road trips, snow storms, squalls, bruised shins, cracked hands, state...
This past Sunday was a fundraising event for Wickford Sailing Assocation, the Quonset Point 10 Miler. This was the first year a 5K course was also offered to registrants. There was a great diversity of runners, even one of my former sailing students who is about 9 years old did the 5K! Luckily the rain held off and it was just a chillier overcast day. The race started at 10am, and two runners...
Oh little Wickford, oh charming little Wickford. Sadly there was no snow to pretty you up this winter (so far), but we still had those little twinkling lights! Now those little lights are coming down but the charm will always remain. Hopefully this new year some of those empty storefronts will be filled again with new entrepreneurial prospects, but you will always be charming regardless!
As the days are getting shorter and the sun starts coming up later in the morning, I decided to make the chilly trek down to my town beach to catch the sunrise this week. It was a gorgeous morning, about 35 degrees outside, sea smoke, light clouds, and an incredible bright sunrise of pinks and blues. I captured the breathtaking scene as best I could, but of course nothing is quite like actually...
