Plymouth Harbor, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA

On this mid-Fall day, bright blue skies and a near gale-force wind covered the Plymouth area. With the strong wind, chilly 45 degrees (F) air temperature, and most summer tourists gone for the year, only a few local people were visible out and about today.
 
I've been coming to Plymouth for over ten years as a visitor but, now that I live here full-time - it's a different mindset - and everything looks and feels different for that reason.  The normally bustling downtown waterfront area is calm and peaceful today.  Local residents go about conducting their annual rituals of hunkering down for the coming winter - put the hoses away, drain any outside pipes of water, put the yard tools away, put away the lawn chairs, get out the snow shovels, rake the leaves, stack the firewood- you get the idea.

If Plymouth Rock had eyes, this would be its view.

These booths on the main town pier are buzzing with activity during the tourist season - selling trips for fishing, whale watching, birding, touring, lobstering........ I wonder if these business operators get to spend their winter somewhere warm offering the same seasonal services? 

Low tide in the harbor.

Looking towards the Town Pier in Plymouth Harbor.

Prime viewing benches unused - nobody out to see and feel and hear the beauty of a crisp Fall day.

Sun and clouds viewed through the rigging of the Mayflower II, an accurate reproduction of the 100-foot long vessel that carried Pilgrims across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in 1620.

Many boats are still in the water - and many are already out and shrink-wrapped for winter.  The landmass on the horizon is the northern section of the Pine Hills.

If my camera was as good as my own distance vision, you would note the visible structures on the horizon - those structures are in Provincetown on the northernmost tip of Cape Cod - it is about 26 miles over the water, but about 75 miles by road.