Peconic View

I was showing a home on the Peconic Bay this evening, we got there later than planned and the sun was just setting. This home has a rare beach side swiming pool. On the horizon you can see the shadow of Holms Hill on the left and Robins Island on the right.

Scraglers

I was driving along North Sea Mecox Road and passed this farm field. The field had a huge high fence to keep out deer and others. I poked my camera lens between the wires of the fence and took this photo. The flowers are mostly cosmos that escaped cutting for the summer season.

A Fresh Idea

Most of the new homes I see in the Hamptons are based on homes we have all seen before. The ranch house started as a design from west of us here. Most of the ranch homes we see  have been badly watered down from the early designs. This home started out as a very ordinary ranch home. I think the reinvention is inspired.

Late Arrival

Go figure, the espalier magnolia grandiflora on the south wall of my house is in bloom again. The tree dose not like winter and needs this protected setting to make it though our winters. In the spring after a winter of ice and show it looks very beat up. This fall after a nice summer the wall is full of rich green foliage. I usually get a round of blooms in late spring, I was not expecting more flowers now.

A is for Ford

There was a meet of antique cars out east the weekend. This group of Model A Fords had collected in the parking lot across from my home. The model T may have been first, but it was the model A that sold like hotcakes. This photo shows the two and four door versions.

Montauk Daisy

I had never heard of the Montauk Daisey until I came to the Hamptons. The plant blooms much later in the season than the more common Shasta Daisey. The leaves are more leathery than the typical Daisy and seem to tolerate salt spray and beach conditions.

The Dog Factory

In the later 1980s I summered on Towd Point. One summer we made very large Papier Mache dogs for an ARF benefit. Some of the dogs are still used today for select events.