Sunday, March 28, 2021

2020 - The Unchosen Reinvention, or Whatever Happened to Crosswinds B&B?



 My Unchosen 10-year Reinvention 

in Pictures


March 2020




all volunteering is suspended


the repurposed hat rack


R.I.P. Bobby Roper Daniels


APRIL 2020

the Studio is repurposed to a safe haven for Doug

before

after

Doug's drive from DC to Cape Cod
through locked down New York City



Our new BUBBLE


2020 SPRING/SUMMER 
anti-social hobbies

Quiet Beach Walks

admiring improvisational art left behind

creating LOTS of sand faces

a new container garden

some long-needed mulching

a new front yard double cairn

preparing to welcome the hummingbirds


2020 - SPRING/SUMMER VISITORS
 All Creatures Great & Small

Spot, the Garden Bunny

Sunshine, the Yellow Finch

Katie, the Catbird

Screech, the Redwing Blackbird

Orson, the Oriole

'Make Way for the Crosswinds Duckings'

a phone visit from our friend's service dog, Natasha

Buzzy, the Bee, doing his job on the Milkweed for the butterflies

bird condo babies, as yet unnamed

Henry, the escapee from a nearby cottage


  THE CROSSWINDS HAIR SALON
Improvisational Haircuts for the Brave

MAY 2020
STILL QUIET, THE BIG QUESTION:
WILL CAPE COD HAVE TOURISTS THIS YEAR?

walkers express themselves on Fort Hill





checking the winter beach erosion



2020 - SUMMER ON CAPE COD 

Tourists seek a 'Safe Haven', some settling in through Fall









2020 - FALL 

A memorial walk for Robin

time to fly south

a deer neighborhood friend

Woolly's mild winter forecast

the dune challenge

"The fog comes on little cat feet." Carl Sandburg

Nor'easter entertainment

election time


refreshing the boat lights

the garden gets thinned and redesigned 

2020 - Winter sets in


Fort Hill always dresses for the season

old pictures transferred-to-digital project finally under way

the bluebirds return every January



the woodwork painting project begins




new headphones make practice for rusty hands less embarrassing


Tommy 'Mac' Daniels enjoys some extra warmth

A weekly indulgence from the Cape Codder

Clyde Cardinal

our new favorite game

erosion has taken its toll


but still yields beach treasures

a historic January 'surprise'

February temptations

winter sunsets are always the best


March 2021 

and the cycle begins again