Inside the belvedere.

Storm viewed from the belvedere. Sorry about reflections in the glass.

A different and less threatening looking storm.

Cape May docks.

North Street home, Grafton, Massachusetts.

Grafton Unitarian Church.

Counting the clouds from  the New Jersey Turnpike.

Delaware River – Turnpike Toll Bridge. This view reminds me of Santiago Calatrava’s railway station in Lyon, France.

Harbor area.

House on the way to the beach.

Path to 36th Street beach.

Atlantic Ocean waves.

Lifeguard stand.

Lifeguard boat.

Avalon gull.

Sand patterns.

Avalon rental.

Back porch.

First floor room.

Second floor room.

Third floor rooms.

Flanders Hotel suite with ocean view. If I had it to do over again, I would choose a southern or western exposure due to the not so attractive amusement park on the ocean side.

Beach view of the Flanders Hotel (tallest building in photo). The Flanders was built in 1923 and is named after the American Cemetery in Belgium. Manco & Manco Pizza’s 12th Street location can be seen left of center beyond the dunes.

Front of the Ocean City Music Pier. I don’t know anyone in this photo including the woman smiling at me.

Looking north toward the Ocean City Music Pier.

Ocean City Beach Patrol building.

14th Street Fishing Pier, Ocean City, NJ.

Port-O-Call Hotel, Ocean City, NJ. A nice place for an off-season breakfast. This hotel is located a block north of the site where the four-masted sailing barque Sindia ran aground on December 15, 1901. Nothing remains visible today, but I remember remnants on the beach and in the water when I was a kid.

The rental.

Sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean.

Gull at sunrise.

Beach umbrella.

Gull in flight.

Stone Harbor waves.

How was this water delivered to the earth? That’s a big question.

A side trip to Ocean City, New Jersey on the way home.

Grace Kelly’s parents’ former summer home in Ocean City, NJ. The Spanish Mission Revival style of this building is similar to the design of other Ocean City structures such as the Chatterbox, Music Pier, Golden Galleon, and Flanders Hotel.

A wider view of the former Kelly property at Wesley Avenue  and 26th Street, Ocean City, NJ.

Looking south on Wesley Avenue from 26th Street, Ocean City, NJ.

Looking north on Wesley Avenue between 24th and 23rd Streets, Ocean City, NJ.

Houses overlooking the 26th Street Beach, Ocean City, NJ.

26th Street Beach, Ocean City, NJ. The Kelly family beach house (which was built on the ocean side of Wesley Avenue across the street from their summer home) used to stand on the site now occupied by the large house on the right.

Fralinger’s Original Salt Water Taffy in the Golden Galleon, Ocean City, NJ.

 Looking south on the Board Walk from 11th Street, Ocean City, NJ.

Looking north on the Board Walk from 11th Street, Ocean City, NJ.