Saturday, Nov. 4
Sunrise at the fishing pier, Ocean Grove.
Friday, Nov. 3
Sunrise, Ocean Grove
Saturday, Oct. 28
Sunrise off Ocean Grove.
Wednesday, Oct. 25
Sunrise, Ocean Grove.
Monday, Oct. 23
Ocean Grove's north end sits en silhouette against light from the rising sun.
Sunday, Oct. 22
Sunrise at the Ocean Grove fishing pier.
Sunday, Oct. 1
The first sunrise of October, captured off Ocean Grove.
Saturday, Sept. 30
The surf off Ocean Grove returns to normal as Hurricane Maria finally turns farther out to sea and dissipates.
Thursday, Sept. 28
Asbury Park, south end beach.
Saturday, Sept. 23
The first sunrise of autumn 2017, Ocean Grove.
Friday, Sept. 22
The last sunrise of summer, Ocean Grove.
Saturday, Sept. 16
Sunrise, Wesley Lake, with a view of the Asbury Park steam plant and the North End Pavilion on the Ocean Grove boardwalk.
Friday, Sept. 15
Sunrise, Bradley Beach.
Thursday, Sept. 14
Sunrise, north end, Ocean Grove.
Tuesday, Sept. 12
Sunrise at the dunes, Ocean Grove.
Monday, Sept. 11
Sunrise, Ocean Grove.
Sunday, Sept. 10
Sunrise, Ocean Grove.
Saturday, Sept. 9
Sunrise and surf, Ocean Grove.
Friday, Sept. 8
Sunrise, Wesley Lake.
Thursday, Sept. 7
Radar indicated rain was out of the area. It was. The clouds had moved out to sea, blocking the sun.
Wednesday, Sept. 6
Sunrise at the place it was easiest to reach between the raindrops: Wesley Lake. The sun isover Ocean Grove.
Tuesday, Sept. 5
Sunrise, Wesley Lake.
Monday, Sept. 4, Labor Day
Sunrise, Bradley Beach.
Saturday, Sept. 2
Dawn, Ocean Grove.
Friday, Sept. 1
Sunrise over Fletcher Lake, Ocean Grove.
Thursday, Aug. 31
Sunrise, Bradley Beach.
Wednesday, Aug. 30
Yes, this was the scene at the time of sunrise in Ocean Grove.
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Sunrise, Wesley Lake.
Sunday, Aug. 27
Gull sunrise, Bradley Beach.
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Saturday, Aug. 26
Sunrise and dune grass, Ocean Grove.
Friday, Aug. 25
Sunrise at the end of the footpath over Wesley Lake, at the border of Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.
Wednesday, Aug. 23
Sunrise, Ocean Grove.
Tuesday, Aug. 22
Sunrise puts Ralph the Ocean Grove Fisherman en silhouette as he sits on his perch at the end of the Ocean Grove fishing pier.
Monday, Aug. 21
Sunrise, Ocean Grove.
Sunday, Aug. 20
Sunrise at the end of Ocean Pathway in Ocean Grove.
Friday, Aug. 18
Overcast dawn on the Ocean Grove beach.
Thursday, Aug. 17
Sunrise at the Ocean Grove boardwalk.
Wednesday, Aug. 16
Wesley Lake in a foggy sunrise.
Monday, Aug. 14
Sunrise over the north-end dunes, Ocean Grove.
Friday, Aug. 11
View of sunrise from the boardwalk in Ocean Grove.
Thursday, Aug. 10
Sunrise over Fletcher Lake, between Ocean Grove and Bradley Beach.
Wednesday, Aug. 9
Sunrise at the Terrace Beach dunes, Bradley Beach.
Sunday, Aug. 6
Sunrise, Wesley Lake.
Friday, Aug. 4
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Thursday, Aug. 3
Bradley Beach, sunrise.
Wednesday, Aug. 2
Wesley Lake, daybreak.
Tuesday, Aug. 1
Sunrise, Ocean Grove.
Saturday, July 22
Sunrise over Wesley Lake. That's Asbury Park on the left, Ocean Grove on the right.
Friday, July 21
Sunrise at the Ocean Grove beach.
Thursday, July 20
Sunrise at the boardwalk end of Wesley Lake. A few moments earlier, the sun was a blah ball of dull pink.
Wednesday, July 19
Sunrise over the dunes between Asbury Park and Ocean Grove.
Tuesday, July 18
The sun peeps out between buildings at the south end of the Asbury Park boardwalk.
Sunday, July 16
Sunrise at the old steam plant at the end of Wesley Lake.
Saturday, July 15
Sunrise, Ocean Grove. Really.
Thursday, July 13
Sunrise over Ocean Grove's North End beach.
Wednesday, July 12
Dawn, seen from under the Ocean Grove fishing pier.
Tuesday, July 11
Dawn at the North End, Ocean Grove.
Monday, July 10
Sunday, July 9
Saturday, July 8
The rising sun plays peek-a-boo through dune grass; Ocean Grove.
Thursday, July 6
Daybreak, Asbury Park. Convention Hall is on the left.
Wednesday, July 5
Ocean Grove dunes at dawn.
Monday, July 3
Seen from the beach in Ocean Grove.
Sunday, July 2
A Turner sunrise.
Saturday, July 1
Sunrise, Asbury Park.
Friday, June 30
Sunrise, near the Ocean Grove fishing pier. More people are going to the beach to watch the sun come up.
Thursday, June 29
Sunrise, Bradley Beach.
Wednesday, June 28
Tuesday, June 27
A rainy start to the day, so here's an image from June 26 that wasn't used because it was too similar to a recent photo.
Monday, June 26
Sunday, June 25
Friday, June 23
Thursday, June 22
Wednesday, June 21
Before dawn, Ocean Grove.
Sunrise, Asbury Park.
Tuesday, June 20
Monday, June 19
The sun rises over tall grasses on Ocean Grove's north end dunes.
Sunday, June 18
How foggy was it on the beach at daybreak? Look closely, and you might see the lifeguard's stand behind the railing of the Ocean Grove comfort station. The ocean was beyond that. Somewhere.
Friday, June 16
See that salmon-colored smudge on the horizon? That's sunrise.
Thursday, June 15
Sunrise over the Ocean Grove fishing pier.
Tuesday, June 13
Monday, June 12
Sunday, June 11
Sunrise over a dune in Bradley Beach. The flag is the size of the ones you see on the graves of veterans. Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, was shooting on the run: a tractor raking the sand was rumbling close behind.
Saturday, June 10
Sunrise at the "geyser" fishing jetty in Bradley Beach.
Bradley Beachhenge.
Friday, June 9
Look closely, and you'll see a little figure en silhouette against the spray from a wave crashing against the jetty.
The western sky at dawn.
Thursday, June 8
Sunrise seen from beneath the Ocean Grove fishing pier.
Sunrise over the Ocean Grove fishing pier.
Wednesday, June 7
Sunrise. Really.
Tuesday, June 6
Yes, dawn was so dreary that Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, thought black and white was better than color.
Sunday, June 4
Friday, June 2
Dawn and a volleyball net on the Ocean Grove beach.
Thursday, June 1
Dawn at Ocean Grove's north beach.
Sunrise over the south end of the Asbury Park boardwalk.
Wednesday, May 31
Another meh morning from Mother Nature.
Tuesday, May 30
Sunrise. Really. At 5:29. Seen from a dune along the Ocean Grove boardwalk.
Monday, May 29.
We've got Noah-worthy rain here this morning, so the Daily Dawn is a washout. Here's a video of the May 10 dawn. I had posted a still on this page, but at the time, I didn't pay proper attention to the weird reflection in the still or in the video. It looks like a double sun. A bit end-of-the-worldish.
Sunday, May 28
The Ocean Grove boardwalk, under a sunrise at full blast.
The sun over the ocean at daybreak.
Friday, May 26
Tuesday, May 23
Yes, this was sunrise today.
Monday, May 22
On a cold, rainy morning, a DD picture from May 19 that wasn't used. Until now.
Saturday, May 20
Friday, May 19
The rising sun appears to set tall grass on fire at the north end of Ocean Grove.
Meanwhile, an unidentified man walks along the beach. Dawn was at 5:36. Despite increasingly earlier sunrise times, more people have been coming to the beachfront at dawn to walk or jog along the sand and boardwalk.
Thursday, May 18
Wednesday, May 17
Lockers at Ocean Grove's north-end beach. They're expected to be placed at beach entrances in time for the Memorial Day weekend, which begins Saturday, May 27.
Tuesday, May 16
A lake-like sea. Gulls were plucking mussels from the sand.
Monday, May 15
After dramatic dawns fueled by a nor'easter-like storm that moved offshore, dawn today featured a sea of waves fit for carefree, summertime bathing.
Sunday, May 14
Saturday, May 13
With heavy rain obliterating the vista this morning, we thought we'd focus on a detail of red clouds and brilliant sunlight from yesterday's Daily Dawn.
Here's another scene from yesterday, taken on the Ocean Grove boardwalk after the sun came up. That clump of clouds was an eerie harbinger of today's wet weather.
Friday, May 12
Thursday, May 11
Wednesday, May 10
Tuesday, May 9
Monday, May 8
Sunday, May 7
Saturday, May 6
Friday's storm was still over the Atlantic, churning the water.
Thursday, May 4
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Wednesday, May 3
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Monday, May 1
Fog and light rain made it hard to tell where the sea ended and the sky began.
This is one of the dunes in front of the Ocean Grove boardwalk. It's not a dune like the ones seen in the Sahara, but it meets all the criteria for a dune, and protective berms like this are called dunes. The grasses will grow and expand with root systems that keep them from being washed away.
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Sunday, April 30
Asbury Park at dawn, in mist.
Sunrise.
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Friday, April 28
Thunderstorms kept Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, indoors this morning. Here's an image from Thursday, April 27. See the arcing lines of seaweed and other ocean debris? That's how far in the waves were reaching. Specks of lights in the fog denote north Ocean Grove and south Asbury Park.
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Thursday, April 27
The raging sea was blurred by fog.
A man walked his dog on the beach, not on the top of the fence, as the angle suggests.
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Wednesday, April 26
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Tuesday, April 25
The rain is nearly biblical this morning. Here's a photo of the dawn and the dunes that was taken yesterday, Monday, April 24, but not used.
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Monday, April 24
Phases of daybreak at the Ocean Grove beachfront.
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Sunday, April 23
Today's dawn, with its spectacular clouds and colors, made up for the recent run of dreariness.
The western sky at sunrise.
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Saturday, April 22
Today's was the third dismal dawn in a row. But it was a dawn without rain. Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, was able to get out and shoot whatever was out there. It was, Tip said, not a morning for beauty shots.
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Wednesday, April 19
It was a dawn of low light, Baroque clouds, and fierce wind off the water.
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Tuesday, April 18
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Monday, April 17
The colors this morning were spectacular. Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, was sorry that the throngs who were on the beachfront for Easter sunrise services yesterday weren't down there this morning. Dawn today was more dramatic than what worshipers saw yesterday.
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Sunday, April 16 (Easter)
Sunrise started red and murky . . .
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. . . but grew into this. The boardwalk looks as though it's made of brick pavers.
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Saturday, April 15
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Friday, April 14
Today's Daily Dawn is a Daily Dawn from April 14 that wasn't used. The scene is Ocean Avenue in Ocean Grove as seen from the boardwalk, and that little round white thing over the building on the right is the moon.
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Thursday, April 13
This was Ocean Grove's boardwalk pavilion shortly before sunrise. The pavilion will be the site of an Easter sunrise service on Sunday, April 16.
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Wednesday, April 12
The red, marbleized sky suggested rain in the forecast.
Earlier, this was the southwest part of Firemen's Park in Ocean Grove in silhouette against the approaching daybreak. You can just about see the ghost of a gazebo on the left.
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Tuesday, April 11
By late spring, that jetty will be a perch for sure-footed local fisherfolks.
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Monday, April 10
Sunrise with marbleized sky.
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Sunday, April 9
Sunrise.
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Saturday, April 8
One block in from the beach in Ocean Grove, and things are downright sleepy.
This was the scene at the water about 15 minutes later:
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Friday, April 7
Main Avenue, Ocean Grove, as the clouds moved offshore.
Meanwhile, down at the water . . .
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Wednesday, April 5
Dark. With fog.
A wee bit of brightening set in. But . . .
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Monday, April 3
Another "red sky at morning, sailors' warning:" rain is in the forecast for tonight.
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Still face-grabbing cold down on the beach, Tip says.
Footsteps from the sea. Evolution was so far advanced that humans emerged from the waters wearing shoes. More likely, it was Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, heading back up the beach from the waterline.
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Saturday, April 1
April FOol! Today is as gray and colorless as it can get. Have fun joking around, but remember: fool responsibly.
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Friday, March 31
It is absolutely filthy out there this morning, and forecasters say conditions might get worse. "There will be times when there will be downpours," meteorologist Craig Allen of WCBS radio just said. "We could see the rain sideways this afternoon." We could see it coming yesterday afternoon. This is what the sky looked like.
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Thursday, March 30
Move over, Magritte. Tip caught this unintentional homage to the surrealist's "Kingdom of Light" paintings on Main Avenue in Ocean Grove.
A stiff northeast wind almost repelled Tip, but The Intrepid Photographer held on long enough to grab this view of the dawn-age beach that stretches between north Ocean Grove and Asbury Park.
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Wednesday, March 29
Tip says the colors speak for themselves. That's Asbury Park in the distance, and that was the only sliver of brightness in the sky.
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Tuesday, March 28
Dawn today was worse than yesterday: thunder and lightning, as well as heavy rain. More thunderstorms are expected throughout the day. I thought I'd fill the void with an atmospheric sunrise over the jetty. This was photographed on March 7 but never used.
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Monday, March 27
Fog and rain. Tip took this when it was still raw and drippy instead of raw and drenchy.
Technical difficulties, Blogger? We can't upload pictures this morning? Bad Blogger!
We alerted Blogger about the malfunction. Meanwhile, we were able to insert the image by switching to HTML view. So if you too are having trouble inserting images and you're in "compose," switch to HTML.
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Sunday, March 26
Contributor JoAnn Paules has rescued us from one of the most meh mornings in recent memory! JoAnn, on the way home from a cruise to the Bahamas, captured this scene near the Outer Banks from the deck of Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas. Thank you, JoAnn!
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What the weather apps don't tell you: the winds off the ocean are strong enough to shove you away. Which is what happened to Tip, The Intrepid (but puny) Photographer. Literally repelled from the beachfront as far as one block away from the water, our pathetic quasi-peripatetic dawn dweller made do with a portrait of a rodent home (upper left) basking beneath the blossoms in the glow of an ornamental street lamp on Ocean Grove's Main Avenue.
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Saturday, March 25
Sunrise on the sea, somewhere east of Port Canaveral, Florida, by contributor JoAnn Paules, who's heading north and home on Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas. It. looks. so. warm. JoAnn says it's windy.
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Meanwhile, up at the Jersey Shore, "red sky at morning . . . sailors' warning." The old sailors were right. Rain is in the forecast.
Couldn't resist adding a wider view.
Friday, March 24
Dawn in Nassau, the Bahamas. The stunning view was captured by JoAnn Paules, who tells me that the super yacht in the foreground is the Solandge, which you can rent for only $1 million a week. JoAnn is on Royal Caribbean's Grandeur of the Seas.
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Meanwhile, farther north, this was the scene from the beach in Ocean Grove:
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Thursday, March 23
This just in! Today's Daily Dawn, from reader JoAnn Paules on the Grandeur of the Seas, somewhere off Nassau in the Bahamas:
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A study in contrasts from yesterday's dawn. The camera in Tip's phone froze this morning in the wind. Sometimes, things don't go as planned, and you've got to improvise. Of course, it would help if Tip had more than one camera to lug around . . . But a (really) small inventory and a (really) small budget are part of the world of (really) small news.
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Wednesday, March 22
This was the sea off Ocean Grove. But I'd rather be where the next picture was taken!
While Tip was shivering in plummeting temps and a suddenly savage wind, reader JoAnn Paules was seeing this from the Grandeur of the Seas, about an hour off the Bahamas:
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Thank you, JoAnn! Here's to a fantastic trip!
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Tuesday, March 21First, there was this . . .
. . . which became this . . .
. . . which became this.
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Monday, March 20
The first half-hour of spring felt like the last dawn of winter -- steel-cold, with a sharp wind. Not the pretty, soft day a lot of us usually hope for to start the brighter, warmer part of the year.
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Saturday, March 18
Tip said the sky was afire, and then the rain fell. Can you get more poetic than that? (Answer: yes.)
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Friday, March 17
Ocean Pathway in Ocean Grove, looking toward the Great Auditorium.
Wesley Lake before dawn. Asbury Park is on the left; Ocean Grove, the right.
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Friday, March 10
Another rainy dawn. This picture is from yesterday, when Tip's birdie buddy refused to stop for a picture.
This is a shot from just before sunrise on March 9.
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Thursday, March 9
Bright sun, warm temps, active sea.
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Tuesday, March 7
Pouring. At least it's not snow! Here's a Daily Dawn shot Jan. 27 but not used.
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Monday, March 6
Cold but still. The Canadian high pressure system that's produced single-digit wind chills is expected to move out of the region today.
Looking west on Main Avenue in Ocean Grove.
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Friday, March 3
Tip was unable to get out again this morning, so here's a picture that wasn't used for last month's Daily Dawns. It was set aside because of that dense-dark block of a stone jetty. But on second look, that thing has a certain presence . . .
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Tuesday, Feb. 28
Early spring-warm, but hinting of rain on the way. This is the ocean at the border of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park . . .
. . . and in Ocean Grove.
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Wednesday, Feb. 22No sun this morning, but lots of clouds.
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Tuesday, Feb. 21
The wind, from the northeast, was stiffer and more buffeting than the waves indicate. The color of the sky is what was captured in the lens. No digital enhancements here.
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Monday, Feb. 20
In summer, these benches on Ocean Grove's boardwalk are filled with folks attending morning services in the Boardwalk Pavilion.
Today, high pressure dominated, resulting in a dawn without drama.
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Sunday, Feb. 19
Today's was one of those silver dawns, when the light plays upon the water like moonrise.
The dawn color was north. That's Asbury Park in the distance.
The prints are fresh. So where are the people?
Looks like yesterday's dawn . . . Except the sea is calmer.
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Friday, Feb. 17Face-biting cold, but bright and clear.
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Thursday, Feb. 16
Right before sunrise. A punching west wind and a real feel of 13F kept Tip-the-Tripodless close to home. The result? Fifty shades of lapis lazuli.
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Wednesday, Feb 15
A raw dawn and a roughish sea. Rain is on the way. Farther north, out of frame: two surfers.
The north end of Ocean Grove and the south end of Asbury Park.
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Friday, Feb. 10
Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, took a blast of Arctic air in the face to capture this dawnview from home.
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Thursday, Feb. 9
Tip might be The Intrepid Photographer but still possessed of some common sense. The monster storm that's covering the East Coast from Philadelphia to Maine is dumping what meteorologists politely call a wintry mix. It is, in fact, an obnoxious, dangerous-to-walk-and-drive-on coat of sleet. Fun times.
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Wednesday, Feb. 8
No wonder the water could be heard blocks away.
The Ocean Grove beach, looking north toward Asbury Park.
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Tuesday, Feb. 7
Dawn today was spilling rain. So here are a couple of images from other, brighter dawns that weren't originally selected for this page.
This is a view of one of the old business buildings on Main Avenue in Ocean Grove.
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Monday, Feb. 6
Beneath a minimalist sunrise, the waves rolled in like wrinkles in a throw rug.
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Sunday, Feb. 5
Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, groused upon hearing a forecast of "cloudy" and had no doubt that this would be a bland, nothing-to-write-home-about dawn. The gulls were not of the same opinion.
The scene without the gulls.
Heck Avenue in Ocean Grove, a little after sunrise.
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Saturday, Feb. 4
The statue of Elwood H. Stokes, the first president of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association, set to face the ocean and the rising sun.
The north side of Main Avenue.
The office area of the Great Auditorium, which was built in 1894.
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Friday, Feb. 3
The weather app said the windchill was 18F. The sun was out there somewhere, beyond the clouds.
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Thursday, Feb. 2
There was no frost on the boardwalk today, so Tip was able to get closer to the sea. It might look like a death ray hitting the jetty, but it's what Tip caught in the lens, not a foray into science fiction.
Meanwhile, behind Tip . . .
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Wednesday, Feb. 1
Frost on the boardwalk made it a bit dangerous to get to the stairs leading to the beach. Tip, The Intrepid Photographer, might indeed be intrepid, but common sense sometimes shines through in matters of the potential for bodily harm. Sometimes.
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Tuesday, January 31
It's a sky-blends-with-the-sea kind of morning, with snow on the way. Monotonous. So monotonous, the gulls were gone. Bring on the snow.
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Monday, Jan. 30
Dismal daybreak at the jetty.
Right before dawn, it was just Tip (The Intrepid Photographer) and a squirrel family on Main.
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Sunday, Jan. 29
All was quiet on Main Avenue.
All was quiet, too, around the new buildings at 50 Main, which are nearing completion.
The sun played peek-a-boo.
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Saturday, Jan. 28
The Atlantic was a lake of an ocean this morning.
The dunes behind the bench are an important part of preventing beach erosion. They also form a barrier between the boardwalk and storm surges that occur during nor'easters and hurricanes.
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Friday, Jan. 27
Dawn at first looked like a primordial ooze.
Within half an hour, it was this.
Main Avenue, Ocean Grove.
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Thursday, Jan. 26
The rain isn't stopping the gentlemen of the township's public works department from picking up the trash, but it sure did push me back indoors. I managed to get one rather bizarre image of a patio set reflected in the stones. That's a furled table umbrella in the middle. Maybe I should post this again on Halloween?
Meanwhile, the weather app on my cell phone tells me to expect "occasional rain" to end four hours from now. Sigh. So, on the brighter, less macabre side, here's a picture from yesterday's dawn along the Ocean Grove waterline.
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Wednesday, Jan. 25
In silhouette against daybreak, the Ocean Grove fishing pier looks like an ancient ruin. It really is a ruin, though not so old. The pier and the little clapboard building that stood on it were destroyed by Hurricane Sandy in October, 2012.
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Tuesday, Jan. 24
With wind bursts reaching 65 miles per hour during the nor'easter on Monday, the wind didn't blow, it punched. At one point it was punching in the storm door to the mud room and then sucking it open. I ended up tying the door to a utility pipe inside the mud room with string. It worked. It held through the night. With a little help from some masking tape. Dawn today was at 7:11. It's now 7:15, still dark and murky because of the hour and a solid cover of storm clouds.
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Monday, Jan. 23
A nor'easter that left 18 people dead down South and promises hurricane-force winds offshore up here is already strong enough to offer a good reason not to venture out this morning. In the event I can't get out at all today, here's a picture from yesterday's dawn. It looks like a scene from inland, doesn't it? You'd never think the beach is two short blocks away. Unless you're familiar with the area: a lane alongside the Great Auditorium in Ocean Grove. This is what some visitors call "tent city" looks like in the off-season, when the tents are packed away in the wooden cottages that provide modern kitchen, bath and electrical amenities for their inhabitants in the summer.
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Sunday, Jan. 22:
The famous Ocean Grove tents aren't completely tents. They have little wooden cottages set on platforms, or pads. The tents are attached to the cottages in the summer. This is a row next to the Great Auditorium.
Ever notice the juxtapositioning, at the proper angle, of the "no lifeguard" sign and the cross at the Ocean Grove dunes? Quite a way to say, "Swim at your own risk!"
The hitching post in front of the Ocean Grove Historical Society's Centennial House is a reminder that the town was incorporated when the main mode of travel had four legs. (Actually, the year was 1869.)
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Saturday, Jan. 21:
Yes, those are footprints coming away from the water. There were no footprints going toward the water.
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Friday, Jan. 20:
Dawn is as dismal as it can get without raining: a flat gray sky; breezy; raw. It's deep winter, but this green vine is surviving.
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Thursday, Jan. 19:
Today was a Tale of Two Dawns. When I reached the beach, the skies were overcast and the sea was rough. We could hear the waves pounding on the shore from six blocks away.
But this was the scene moments later as the sun rose.
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Wednesday, Jan. 18 around Ocean Grove:
Another overcast dawn. This was the view looking east along the lane in front of vacant tent pads. Not one hint of sunlight.
A hedge near the tents seems coated in verdigris.
The Youth Temple. The angle shows what can happen when you hold the phone too high.
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Tuesday, Jan. 17 on the Ocean Grove beach:
A cloudy start to the day.
Also Tuesday, Jan. 17 on the Ocean Grove boardwalk:
The simplicity of the lamp, the spare but atmospheric surroundings, the blue background, and the reflection of the light on the boardwalk reminded me of the work of Belgian surrealist painter Rene Magritte.
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Monday, Jan. 16 in Ocean Grove:
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