Chesapeake Bay Photos by Jay Fleming

The following photos were taken by Jay Fleming, who is well known for his photography of life and work along the Chesapeake Bay.  I am happy to share these with you.

Fishermen pulling in a pound net on the Chesapeake Bay

Male crab attached to a Smith Island piling

The last house on Holland Island; it fell into the Bay in October 2010

Maryland crab legs at the JM Clayton Company in Cambridge, Maryland

Captain Arthur Daniels, 93, and mate dredge for oysters while under sail on the skipjack City of Crisfield

Sophie on the bow of a crabbing skiff

Captain Stoney Whitelock, of Deal Island, dredging on the skipjack Hilda Willing

Hoopers Island marsh in Dorchester County, Maryland

Pulling croakers in from a pound net at Cape Charles, Virginia

Miscellaneous Photos

It's a ...  duck-mater!

Nedi is used to the sounds our usual birds make, but ducks and geese still startle him... that why yesterday's Rose Is Rose comic tickled me so.

Spring in the Ukraine

This is all bead-work...  I don't know if I'd have the patience to complete something as beautiful and detailed as this piece.

A circus band wagon  in the 1920s

Crab delivery from boats to the dock to the wagon, about 1900

Patrick J Hendrickson of Highcamera.com captured "my islands" in July 2013 from 5,000 feet, approaching from the north - Assateague Island on the left, Chincoteague Island to the right, and the Eastern Shore of Virginia (the mainland) at the far right.