As it turns out, 2020 was a great year for renovations in Marblehead including those to the facade and bones of Abbot Hall. With scaffolding surrounding the building, I have not found opportunity to shoot the building except at angles low enough that I could hide the surrounding netting. Finally in August, Abbot Hall shed its scaffolding and I found the building basking in the light of a late August day when I stopped along Ocean Avenue and made my way on foot to the short stretch of beach at the end of the causeway.

From this vantage point, I was able to capture Abbot, St Michaels, Grace and the BYC with a collection of boats in the foreground and a great cover of clouds low in the sky. I hope to shoot more close ups of Abbot once the landscaping is complete.