Motus Mentis

The storm ended late last night, and as the clouds broke up the temperature fell sharply, down into the low teens. Today was sunny, but it was very windy, with a high of only about twenty degrees. This afternoon at about two-thirty or three I went back out to take some more pictures.

This first shot is one that I meant to put up yesterday; it was taken late Tuesday afternoon. It shows Cape Cod Bay as seen looking northeast from the town of Dennis, which is on the broader “upper” Cape, closer to the mainland. (We don’t get to Dennis much, but had gone down there to see a movie.)

Next a look at Wellfleet’s Main Street, from about the same spot that I took the first shot yesterday.

Here’s a view from the pier in the harbor, looking back at the town, with the Congregational Church in the center.

Another view of the pier.

This is the little cemetery out by Route 6, at the corner of Cahoon Hollow Road.

Great Pond, looking down from Cahoon Hollow Road.

Here’s Whitecrest Beach again. To appreciate the change in the conditions, look at the fourth shot in yesterday’s post.

And here’s the same view as yesterday’s fifth image, looking down the seventy-foot-high bluff.

Looking south from above Whitecrest Beach. It is a strikingly beautiful spot; these photos don’t do it justice.

Looking northward, from the same spot. Here the narrow Cape is making a broad curve toward the northwest as it curls toward its outermost extremity at Provincetown; if you swam directly out to sea from here you would pass just south of Nova Scotia after about 250 miles.

We’ll get back to the usual business in the next few days. Once again, best wishes to you all for the new year.