Spur of the Moment Sunday

Russell's 'forced retirement' is making him crazy, sitting around the house so much.  I was outside doing a couple of chores last Sunday and he came outside and asked if I felt like taking a walk at the Canal.  Sure! Why not?  

We didn't go far cause he's still working up to it but it was a nice, short walk.

We didn't feel like going home just yet so we drove over to Sagamore Beach.  I didn't realize it was low tide till we crested this hill.

I was eager to get down on the beach and start looking for glass.

First piece I found.  Hello Beautiful!!!!  😍

I just love these.

I could've walked for hours looking for glass.

Russell was waiting patiently for me over at the trail in the dunes, so I didn't want to keep him too long, but I was very happy with my modest finds.

Any glass is a good glass day.

Mashpee

Mashpee is the last town that I had left to photograph on the Cape.  I'd been putting it off cause there really isn't anything to see, to be honest, and I researched the heck out of it too.  It's always been mostly residential and a just a small, somewhat run down town that you had to pass through to get to Falmouth.  No one really stopped in Mashpee, 'back in the day'.  Parts of it are quite nice though....all the waterfront properties in New Seabury are exclusive.   In the late 80s, an upscale shopping and movie theatre complex was built called Mashpee Commons and it's still there, but it's not terribly picturesque.  Now there are quite a few strip malls along Rte 28, which is the main road to Falmouth.  Mashpee is the traditional home of the Wampanoag Tribe and still has a large native population.  

First place we went was Popponesset Cove, a little salt water inlet off the south side of the Cape.

Next, we stopped at the Indian Meeting House which also has a graveyard.

I loved this arrowhead stone.

Some of the stones go waaayyyy back, and the names on them are the same names you hear in town now.  

We call Zachary's "The Mashpee Center of the Performing Arts", but it's really Cape Cod's only strip club.  This particular bit of town is really the armpit of the area.  

Then Russell took me over to one of the beaches at Mashpee Wakeby Lake, which straddles the border of Sandwich and Mashpee.  That's looking towards Sandwich's side.

The "country store" which is just a convenience store.  Nothing terribly quaint and it's not filled with country type items or crafts.  I think what qualifies it as a country store is that it has a wooden floor.

This is also Mashpee Wakeby, but at the boat ramp

We finished off our brief tour with lunch at Dino's Sports Bar.  They have pretty consistently good food and Russell likes to relax with some Keno.  

That's the last of the Cape Cod towns I had left to photograph.  One more bucket list item done.

The Final Push for Home

While the delay totally sucked, it enabled to pass through PA during the day which was good because there was something I'd seen on the way out that I was sooooo hoping to get a picture of, even if we were on the highway.   

This farm was huge.

I was surprised that the Chesapeake Bay Watershed starts to far west.  Chesapeake Bay is in the Maryland/Virginia/Delaware area.

I have always wanted to see a Mail Pouch Tobacco barn.  It's sooooo quintessentially Americana.  I saw two on the way west which took me by surprise and I was so bummed that I couldn't get pics.  I did make a mental note of the mile markers though.  On the way east I thought it would be impossible, but I had Russell put down the left rear window, I set my camera on sports mode (continual shooting) and when we got close to the mile marker area, I started shooting.  I was soooo happy with how they came out, considering we were doing about 70 mph.

This is the other one, almost covered by trees but I got it!

Twas a long trip home though.

This is coming into New York City, at about 9:30 p.m.

I actually love how these came out.

George Washington Bridge.

NYC from the bridge

We got home at 2:00AM.  We had both been up 43 hours straight and literally collapsed in bed.  It was a wonderful trip though and we can't wait to go back!