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Trail work progressing at Cape Henlopen
Last Saturday, in advance of the coming storm, contractors continued installing the substructure for the boardwalk that will carry the linking trail between Gordons Pond and Herring Point over a...
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First thoughts on a late March morning
THURSDAY 27 MARCH - TRAINING The day emerges. Starlight slides, coalesces, sunlight. Ah, coalescence. The calm orderliness of coalescence. A smirk becomes a smile; a rough edge becomes smooth; a dog's...
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Thinking about washing your car . . . ?
You might want to wait. See those pine tree candles here? They are swollen with clouds of microscopic green pollen and all it takes right now to cut that pollen loose is a little breeze or the flick...
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Long arm of the law halts our backward progess
Rehoboth Beach Police Officer Talley hollered out to us a week or so ago. Riding bicycles back from Indian River Inlet, we had just crossed Silver Lake and turned left onto the first street over the...
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Kool K9 at Indian River Marina
They came off a boat Sunday morning at Indian River Marina. The hound was as cool as his human friends, with dark glasses fixed happily over his eyes. Cubbie is a shepherd mix, said his owner Kiley...
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Donna Floyd and Coco patrol Cape Region trails
Donna Floyd loves to walk the trails of Delaware's Cape Region and so does her Harlequin Macaw Coco. They can be found any day of the week in Cape Henlopen State Park or Prime Hook National Wildlife...
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Cassie Taggart brings her magic to RAL annex
I'm a great fan of Cassie Taggart's art. It's kicky. It enthralls me. We're blessed with a number of very fine artists in Delaware's Cape Region. Most take their inspiration from the beautiful natural...
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Prickly pears and beach yuccas in full bloom
The rough winter past is becoming a distant memory but at least two coastal plants are showing their appreciation for the poor man's fertilizer brought by the frequent snows. Prickly pear cactus have...
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Port and Starboard with Mr. Dogfish
Just in case a little confusion crept into his boat trip up the East Coast last week, Dogfish Head's Sam Calagione wore his latest collaboration to remind him that when it comes to navigation, port is...
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Ellsworth building world's largest T-Bucket
Lewes blacksmith John Ellsworth took a break yesterday afternoon on a hot summer's day. He was working on the grill of an old tractor he calls "The Secretary.""When the Captain (Speed Lackhove) and I...
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Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing taking shape
Using a tall telescoping crane, contractors for the new Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing at Beebe Healthcare have been hoisting and bolting tons of new steel into place for the substructure of...
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A strong weekend for food in Lewes
People kept their appetites tuned up as high as their patriotism over the long July 4 holiday. In the aisles of Lloyd's Market in Lewes, employees hustled to keep the shelves filled, stacking plastic...
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Carpenter bees and Navajo rugs
Many people have told me this is a bad year for carpenter bees. About the size of a jelly bean with lots of buzz, these creatures make neat work as they bore into untreated wood and start each year's...
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Walt Norris, Dorsey Owings and their corn cob pipes
I'm increasingly interested with human beings and how they go about interacting with this experience we call life. Walt Norris interacts with a corn cob pipe in his mouth. I noticed him the other day...
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After misadventure, Cantler's, Pusser's and Annapolis
I was just getting out of my truck last Friday evening after backing Nellie Lankford's trailer into a spot beneath a street light at the Matapeake launching ramp parking lot. I heard yelling. Turning...
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You never know what you'll see along the trail
I call the trail The Loop. It loops between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach with the new Gordons Pond Trail in between on the ocean side of Lewes-Rehoboth Canal and the Junction and Breakwater Trail on the...
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The buzz on Paradise Grill on Long Neck
A few of us took a Wednesday evening drive last week to the Paradise Grill. I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Paradise over the past couple of months and wanted to see what it was all about. We...
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Weekend rides to the inlet outpost. - sights and sounds
Last weekend brought plenty of rain to the coast but not enough to stop plans for a ride from Lewes to Indian River Inlet and back. It's about a 35-mile ride with pieces of Lewes, Rehoboth Beach,...
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Grand love, mighty Orioles and Virginia's Corotoman River
Rick and Sue stopped by last night. We were anchored in eleven feet of water in Myer Creek off Virginia's Corotoman River. Western Shore. Northern Neck. Virginia. Sweet part of the Chesapeake...
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A crop of baby limas on the southern edge of Lewes
Toward the end of July, I was surprised to see a new crop peeking up through the good soil on the eastern side of Freeman Highway across from Cape Henlopen High School. It looked like soybeans to me...
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