Ducks on the water early Saturday AM. Possibly seeking refuge from the duck hunters.
Showing posts with label Cambridge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambridge. Show all posts
November 22, 2009
Cambridge #226
Sailboats beyond the cemetery. The cemetery is located at Cemetery and Academy Avenues.
Cambridge #223
Statue of Thomas Holiday Hicks in the Cambridge Cemetery. He was Maryland's first Civil War Governor and is credited with keeping Maryland from ceding from the Union.
Cambridge #215
Crazy surf in front on the Cambridge Yacht Club. I had no idea I caught the action of the water at the time. I wish I had been more patient - maybe I could have gotten better pics of the water. It was too cold and wet for me to think too much about it at the time.
Cambridge #206
J.M. Clayton Crab company. We purchased some crab salsa and some crab marinara sauce there. Water was creeping up the streets during our visit.
Cambridge #194
These are some pics from the main marina in Cambridge. This is where the skipjack Nathan of Dorchester is typically berthed. We didn't see it. Perhaps they moved it to a calmer area during the storm? Notice how how the water is.
We did a "driving tour" in the rainy mess Friday morning/afternoon. The ladies at the visitors center did a great job organizing our stops and mapping it out for us. We saw Annie Oakley's house, a crab processing plant, historical old homes, the historical society, the Harriet Tubman museum, and a cemetery. We had lunch at Canvasbacks.
Cambridge Historical Society #187
Ron Rue's workshop door. What a neat little place his workshop must have been. I picture a little wood stove and the smell of paint and wood shavings.
Cambridge Historical Society #185
This is decoy maker Ron Rue's workshop reconstructed at the Cambridge Historical Society. Mr. Rue was one of several awared winning decoy makers local to the greater Cambridge area. Mr. Rue was mentored by the Ward Brothers in his younger years.
Cambridge #169
Haven't looked at these pics for a couple of weeks now. Some of them are more interesting on the second look.
Trinity Church #131
Never finished my pic posts from our soggy trip to Salisbury and Cambridge. We slogged through Trinity Church cemetery. The church was locked. The Church was built in the 1670s and is said to be the oldest Episcopal Church in continuous use in the United States. It's located on Church Creek and Governor Thomas Kin Carroll is buried in the cemetery. It's a teensy little church and I'm sorry we couldn't see the interior.
November 14, 2009
Blackwater Wildlife Refuge #123
C and I were wondering about the grass. It takes on this beautiful golden red color - at least when the sky is gray. Later that evening I suspect I learned what it was while reading Day Trips in the Delmarva, by Alan Fisher. (Thank you very much Ward Museum Gift Shop!)
To quote Mr. Fisher, "The predominant plant of southern Dorchester's tidal marshes is Olney three-square, also called American three-cornered sedge. It is an important source of food for Canada geese. Growing about two fee high, it is easily identified by its stiff spikey stems, which are triangular in cross section. The prevalence of three-square reflects its ability to tolerate wide fluctuations in salinity, which in the marshes bordering the Blackwater River ranges from 2 percent to 42 percent of average sea salinity, depending on rainfall and the incursion of tides. Because of it's importance as food for geese and other animals, three-square is maintained at Blackwater NWR by annual burning in the fall. Burning is not harmful to the three-square roots and rhizomes, yet helps to prevent intrusion by other plants. Burning also produces fresh growth on which geese can graze during late winter and early spring, when food is scarce."
Of course, without taking a hard look at it and/or a field guide, I can't be sure what we liked so much is three-square. I'm not sure it would look this way had it been burned. Or maybe we were seeing sections not burned? In conclusion, I'm not sure what it was, but I might know, and now I have another thing to wonder about and research. haha!
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