The "Off Season"
Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 8:06PM I started digging through the archive this afternoon, looking for some photographs that I could contribute to an exhibit that a friend is helping to organize and at the same time trying to fend off some serious post-holiday, winter blues - I'm cold and its dark, and I'm having a hard time remembering that I grew up on Cape Cod where they have been having this weather since Thanksgiving and right about this time of year the sun sets at 4:30 in the afternoon.
But I did grow up there, and I do miss it - maybe not the lifestyle or the living - but the land and the way everything eventually takes you to the ocean.
Growing up on the Cape I don't think you really experience the "off season". You are at the beach in the summer, and then you are in school, and the beach and the summer became memories, and that is the cycle. After I graduated from college, I started taking photos when I went back for the holidays., and I discovered the quiet deserted beaches, the bordered up summer homes, the empty restaurants with chairs tipped upside down - all of it.
These were taken on a particularly beautiful day - cold and foggy, a day when you arrive at the ocean and couldn't quite see that it, but you knew it was around you. Maria, looking over my shoulder, thinks that they look like old slides - maybe even sepia tones, funny to be nostalgic for something that you never experienced growing up. But I think that is the effect of visiting such a place and rediscovering things that you probably should have know all along.
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