It’s a simple way to enjoy summer, especially in pandemic distancing times — tubing on a Thursday afternoon.
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R-FH Area Weekly Snapshot: Looking Back & Ahead, Weather, Tides, COVID & Pics
When the rain clears and the sun shines, shadows are cast. They offer a perspective of what’s behind, ahead and sometimes the view from beneath the surface. So, that in mind, we take a look back at last week, what’s to come this week and a little peek from beneath the surface in news, features and photos from under the Fair Haven Dock.
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Simple Summer: Fishin’ for Sunny Dock Daze
The summer of 2020 has been anything but simple — pandemic, tropical storm rip, power outage, murder hornets. And then down came the rain …
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Scene Around: Weather, Tides, COVID & River View
Well, last week wound down with electricity still down and out in the Rumson-Fair Haven area, but sun spirits up for those who took advantage of the water’s calming effect.
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Scene Around: Bella Fourth of July Luna
The Fourth of July was about more than fireworks shows. The moon had a special show of its own going on — a lunar eclipse coupled with a buck moon.
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Simple Summer: Fair Haven Dock Sunset Solace
Summertime can be hectic. Not quite as much these post-quarantine pandemic days of summer, though. Most are pretty tired of alone time. Still, there’s nothing better than some an end-of-day solo time to unwind, distanced, in the fresh air … embraced by a familiar, comforting scene.
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Scene Around: Sunrise on the Shrewsbury River; A Covid-19 Era Dawn
Photos /John Kinsey
Call it a dawn after the COVID-19 storm. It looked that way at sunrise on the Shrewsbury River on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Scene Around: Seals on the Beach
Photos/Sue Hill-Spakowski
It’s not every day that a Rumsonite takes a typical beach stroll and bumps, not so literally, into a couple of seals. It’s only a pandemic day in May.
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Scene Around: Soothing Sunrise, Sunset Moment
Photos by Sue Hill-Spakowski
Distancing. It’s a necessity these days. Yet, sometimes a little distance leads to appreciation. A new perspective. A dawn. That promise of a new day. The light that reminds us that it is there as darkness falls. The light that always appears after the darkness.
Solitude can offer solace. Taking several steps back to be drenched in sunlight’s promise, a stark view, uncluttered by fear and confusion. The comfort of isolation. The embracing call of the light, close in the distance.
Sometimes a furry best friend who doesn’t know how to distance makes the view just a little sweeter, too. Rumsonite Sue Hill-Spakowski and dog Nancy took in this sunrise, sunset view at Sandy Hook’s Fort Hancock and its perspective as COVID-19 stats rose and fear enveloped the area.
Call it serenity in a snapshot. And Nancy rose with the sun on this. She just didn’t want to move for the full view. That’s OK. She was stepping into the light. Illuminated Rumson dog.
Look for the light. Embrace it. Stay safe, all!
- In Memoriam: Former Little Silver Resident, Maureen Canzoneri, 90
- Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
- Scene Around: Swearing In Fair Haven Fire Department’s Line Officers
- In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Leslie Parent, 82
- Retro Prized Rumson Firemen Line-Up
Focus: Sunshine & Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parading
Everyone said it. Sunday was a great day for a parade. And so the marchers marched under sunny skies in the Eighth Annual Rumson St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Take a look at some of the sights and folks of the day … (And don’t forget to click in the lower gallery to enlarge and scroll!)
Photos/Sue Hill-Spakowski and Jenny Costello for R-FH Retro
- In Memoriam: Former Little Silver Resident, Maureen Canzoneri, 90
- Rumson-Sea Bright Bridge Travel Advisory
- Scene Around: Swearing In Fair Haven Fire Department’s Line Officers
- In Memoriam: Longtime Rumsonite, Leslie Parent, 82
- Retro Prized Rumson Firemen Line-Up
Focus: Dress Rehearsing RFH’s ‘Footloose’
Photos/RFH PAS
It’s that time — dress rehearsal time for the Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School’s (RFH) annual musical theater production. This year it’s Footloose. And as tech week winds down and things are fine-tuned, the cast settles into dress rehearsals, with that final dress rehearsal set for tonight.
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Focus: River Reflection
Sometimes the reflection at the waterfront in the Rumson-Fair Haven area is a mirror glass one. Still. Vivid. A picture with a clear message staring back at you from beneath.
It’s a picture of calm insight. It’s casting back of a similar scene with something new to see in the frame freeze of the water. Reflection. It gives you the chance to see more … without the blindness that the light can bring.
Take a look and find your own retrospective view …
— Photos/Elaine Van Develde
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