An evening walk down Matunuck Beach Road on the first Sunday of July. Matunuck is a special place for me. My grandmother used to have a beach trailer at the meadow in Matunuck when I was young. We had many beach days, after dinner walks to Vanilla Bean for ice cream, and nights watching the last ferry sail home from the rocks by the Ocean Mist. Most of my earliest memories of summers in the Ocean State are from when we spent time there. It's always nostalgic whenever I get to go back and visit. On this evening, it was a bit cloudy, but the golden hour light made for some great photos along my walk.

Late June along the coast of Rhode Island usually brings a couple of things: hydrangeas in peak bloom and coastal fog. On the last Sunday in June, I took a drive down to Watch Hill to walk around and photograph the hydrangeas in bloom along the waterfront. When I left the city, it was close to 90 degrees, but down in Watch Hill, a sea breeze and mid-60s water temperatures led to a bit of coastal fog. That shifting fog combined with the golden hour light and made for some pretty cool photographs.

On the Saturday evening before the summer solstice, I took a drive around South County to photograph at a few of my favorite spots in Matunuck and Point Judith. A few pop up rain showers coming through just before sunset led to some awesome lighting, sky conditions, and a couple rainbows. What a way to kick off the summer.

Photos from exploring around the North Light and Block Island National Wildlife Refuge on a June Monday on the island.

Some favorites from around the Ocean State the last few years to celebrate the USA's 250th birthday. Happy Fourth of July!

Four years ago this morning. Scenes from sunrise at the southern tip of Cape Fear, during a family vacation to Bald Head Island, North Carolina.

Happy Summer Solstice! Today is the longest day of the year and the official start of astronomical summer. Here's to the next three months of early sunrises, late sunsets, and Ocean State summer at its best.