Motus Mentis

We’re off duty today, and so the lovely Nina and I took a long walk this afternoon on the beach at Maguire’s Landing (a.k.a. Lecounts Hollow) here in Wellfleet.

It being December, we had the place all to ourselves. (Well, almost, as you’ll see below.) It was very beautiful. I took a few pictures, shortly before sunset.

Here’s the view looking north:

Looking out to sea, to the east:

And to the south:

And here’s a shot looking north, along the foot of the tall marine escarpment:

As we walked south, we met this little fellow, wriggling his way back to the water from the base of the cliff:

I even made a little seal-pup movie, if you’d like a look. Here. (You may need to right-click and save the file, then play it with QuickTime.)

Twenty-four hours earlier I had been sitting in my little cube on the 8th floor of a skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan. What a world!