Where the Two Rivers Meet - New Bern, NC: Cape Lookout

"It appeared from nowhere...."

"If you come to New Bern make sure to notice about the Monsignor who is buried in the front yard of his home on Middle St. Evidently, he liked to sit on the porch and watch the sunsets, so when he died in 1952 they buried him right there in the front yard--a step away from his porch.

Even for as many, many days and times that I have walked down the sidewalk by the Catholic Charities, I have never noticed that tabletop marker before. And then, on that day, it just seemed to appear from nowhere.

That's the way it is in New Bern. You may walk the neighborhood a thousand times in your lifetime, but on any day (it's usually the evening walks) you will see something that you've never seen before, although it has been sitting right there for a hundred years."

Rosemary Osterhus to a friend -- 2010

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Memories of Cape Lookout

Many years ago (and every chance we got), my Downeast friends and I would pack up a skiff (which was docked at Marshallberg) and we would head ourselves over to Cape Lookout for adventure. Because of the generosity of my friends ere long ago, I have been able to see Cape Lookout by firelight, by moonlight, in loneliness, in remoteness and under broiling heat and even during a strange storm that the Downeaster's call a "mullet blow."

Last night I was going through old photographs and I came across this old one which was taken from the last time I was over at the Cape. This was taken a few years ago and though it had been a beautiful day at the Cape on that day, my camera (alas) was not a state of the art digital camera. The result was an average digital photograph of a breathtakingly beautiful scene.

So, I took the photo (attached with good memories) and exported it over to my new photo editor at Picnik.
These are some of the perspectives that came out as a result...

Here is the original photo....