Landscape and Garden; In and Around Woods Hole; August 2018

 Woods Hole Golf Course

Highfield Hall, above, in Falmouth, Cape Cod.

Cardoon, below, or artichoke.

Beautiful naturalistic landscape, above, outside Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard.

Great Sippewissett Marsh near West Falmouth, off Shining Sea Bike Path.

Water and Beach: Woods Hole August 2018

'Ladies' Night', below, at the Woods Hole Yacht Club racing series.

End of the day, End of the summer.

Pensive at Stony MBL Beach.

Woods Hole, Cape Cod. 

Three shots on a hot sunny day.
Nobska Beach.
Woods Hole, Cape Cod.

End of the season:  looking southeast across Vineyard Sound.

1843 - 1940's: Architectural Shots from Edgartown and Woods Hole

 The Old Whaling Church, above, was built in Edgartown in 1843 as a Methodist Greek Revival display of wealth and success of the fishing and whaling industry of Martha's Vineyard.  It has been preserved in fine fashion and today is open today as a living landmark available for rent; it is no longer a functioning church.

 The tiny gingerbread house on the right is situated in Edgartown, not Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard.  It appears to be a functional dwelling, even  though it does not  measure more  than 10 feet by 12 feet.  1870's?

 The 'Gardiner's Cottage,' above, built by Purcell, Feick and Elmslie on Juniper Point, Woods Hole for Charles R. Crane in 1910.

The 'Airplane House' built for Josephine Crane Bradley by architects Purcell and Elmslie in 1911-1912  on the tip of Juniper Point in Woods Hole.

The 1940's Cape cottage below is where we  stayed near the Steamship Authority ferry dock in Woods Hole.

Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association

Located in Oak Bluffs, the Martha's Vineyard Camp Meeting Association was started in the 1830's, with lots of building in the 1870's as  a Methodist summer gathering place.  It is still going strong, an oasis of  calm  in the flooded  island tourist scene.
It is also known as Wesleyan Grove; here is how Wikipedia introduces it:    "Wesleyan Grove is a 34-acre (14 ha) National Historic Landmark District in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts on the island of Martha's Vineyard. Also known as the Martha's Vineyard Campmeeting Association (MVCMA) or the Campgrounds, it was the first summer religious camp established in the United States. It is famous for its many Carpenter Gothic^{[3][better source needed]} cottages with Victorian-style, gingerbread trim.^[4]"

CHFM Slope Planting; July 2018

The Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting had struggled for years to maintain a steep slope above the building and below a neighboring parking lot.  The Meeting Landscape Committee worked with Schuylkill Environmental Education Center to develop a concept plan based on stabilizing the slope with 'logs' of coconut fiber.  Chris Sohnly of Spruce Hollow Design actually installed the 'coir' logs, ordered native plant plugs, and led the planting process.  Meeting volunteers pitched in to plant 2,000 baby plant plugs in the 100 x 20 foot steep strip.

Below are pictures of the slope in February 2018 before the project.

Peter Jon Snyder at Camden Fireworks 2018

Peter Jon Snyder of Artganic Design hosts an art exhibition at the Camden Fireworks :  metal sculpture, stone, paper images, painted creations, interesting people and more.

The following 'chapters' of the blog show images from a trip in June-July 2018 to:  Italy, Czech Republic, Austrian Danube from Vienna west to Passau, and Zurich.  When you reach the end of a 'page,' click on the button in the lower right hand corner that says 'Older Posts' to go further.  Each 'page' only holds 5 to 10 'chapters' and the trip has, for instance, has 18 chapter installments.