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Dennis Forney has been a journalist on the Delmarva Peninsula since 1972 and has been writing his Barefootin’ column for The Whale and then the Cape Gazette for more than 30 years. Contact Dennis at dnf@capegazette.com.
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A trusting piebald deer; tower messenger revealed
By Dennis Forney - May 18Cape Henlopen State Park's piebald doe, almost completely white, is so trusting now that she can be approached - from a car window - within five ...
Dewey Beach needlefish, crabs, beach plums, pollen
By Dennis Forney - May 033 May 2012 I took a walk Thursday morning on the back, bayside streets of Dewey Beach. Quiet. Winding this way and that, I found myself on the ...
Clifton's wildlife art flying high
By Dennis Forney - Apr 06Congratulations to Milton artist Richard Clifton for winning the recent Delaware Duck Stamp competition for Delaware. In the duck stamp world, ...
A Christmas Day dunes hike with surprises
By Dennis Forney - Dec 26Christmas Morning 2011 - Joy To The World Christmas morning continued our mild winter. A good time for a hike. We chose the dunes trail that ...
Harbor of Refuge stone work and lousy fishing
By Dennis Forney - Dec 077 December 2011 • Pearl Harbor Day • Still in the 60s Overfalls Shoals, Hen and Chickens Shoal, the 8s, the rip outside the Outer Wall - we ...
Contentment and conversation at twilight
By Dennis Forney - Nov 17MIDWEEK, MIDNOVEMBER, DUSK, WALKING HOME • The image strikes me. Two women sitting in porch chairs, knee to knee, simple conversation. They're ...
Ginkgo trees putting on great display
By Dennis Forney - Nov 15SUNSET, 14 NOVEMBER, 2011 Who needs New England to enjoy fall foliage - or foilage, as some like to say? As the awesome coastal fall weather ...
Some pictures from Delaware Wildlands' Roman Fisher Farm
By Dennis Forney - Oct 10I mentioned in my Barefootin' column this week that I would post some color photos from Delaware Wildlands' Roman Fisher Farm in a blog. So here ...
Lewes nightscape colors starting to change
By Dennis Forney - Sep 30At dusk the other evening, I walked out Savannah Road toward the cemetery and School Lane. The street lights had been on only a few minutes and I ...
Black snake in a Broadkill swamp maple
By Dennis Forney - Sep 12Many people have said they've seen more snakes this year than they remember seeing in previous years. I don't know what that's all about but on ...
Grape harvest under way at Nassau Valley Vineyards
By Dennis Forney - Aug 31LAST DAY OF AUGUST, 2011 In this morning's first light, men unloaded plastic crates at the end of grape rows at Nassau Valley Vineyards. The ...
A long and scary ride to Primehook Beach
By Dennis Forney - Aug 27Becky and I drove out to Primehook Beach at about noon to see how the community was prepared for Irene. From Route 1, the Primehook Beach road ...
Hurricane Irene's coming; Wilmington Trust is leaving
By Dennis Forney - Aug 25You can't find a generator for love nor money. I spent the afternoon trying to track one down. There's none left in Sussex County. At Lowe's, Matt ...
Mixing flag and cross on Tangier Island in the Chesapeake
By Dennis Forney - Aug 16On a recent visit to Tangier Island on the lower Chesapeake, I saw a rich mix of church and state at a couple of different places. High on the ...
Water-spewing monsters upstage Frankenstein in Lewes
By Dennis Forney - Jul 22Gene Wilder's Young Frankenstein character was locked in a dark cell with his seven-foot tall monster. He expected to use love to sooth the ...
Dogfish Burton Baton at Old Town Ale House in Ballard, Seattle
By Dennis Forney - Jul 01I love seeing local products in faraway places. Most recently, I found Dogfish Head's Burton Baton Ale, made right in Milton, Delaware, as one of ...
TRAILS: Delaware putting money where its mouth is
By Dennis Forney - Jun 24I drove to Dover Wednesday afternoon to watch Gov. Jack Markell sign Senate Concurrent Resolution 13 (SCR13) which calls on DelDOT to come before ...
Strawberries, waves, fast boats, other remarkable things
By Dennis Forney - May 31I'm blown away by the strawberries that this season and Delaware farmers are growing. In the Magee Farms field at Wescoat's Corner, outside Lewes, ...
Bin Laden slaying gets Cape Region notoriety
By Dennis Forney - May 05Two prominent Cape Region roadside signs that keep up with current events weighed in on the U.S. slaying this week of Public Enemy No. 1 Osama Bin ...
Strung-up buzzard carcass: a warning
By Dennis Forney - Apr 06Photographer Marc Clery had his antennae up this week when he was riding along Gills Neck Road in Lewes. He spotted a dead bird hanging in a tree. ...
Green hurricane sweeping over Savannah
By Dennis Forney - Mar 17It's 7 a.m. March 17. The sidewalks of Savannah, like the fountains in the historic district's many squares, are alive with people of all ages ...
Can you identify this car in the dunes?
By Dennis Forney - Mar 10During my rambles in the dunes of Cape Henlopen State Park, I often come across this old car left behind many decades ago. There are some clues ...
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Thanks for machine guesses
By Dennis Forney - Feb 15Thanks to the folks who offered suggestions for what the mysterious piece of machinery at Cape Henlopen State Park might be. You can see them at ...
Wildlife, butterflies, coyotes, kites and grandchildren
By Dennis Forney - May 088 May 2012 Lots and lots going on. Don't forget to vote today in the Cape Henlopen school board election. Jen Burton and Bill Downs have both put ...
Some statues and beauty in Spain
By Dennis Forney - Apr 1010 April 2012 When I tell people we went to Granada in March, they picture us sitting on a sandy beach in the Caribbean sipping rum punches and ...
Upticking economy and pre-dawn observations
By Dennis Forney - Jan 1212 January 2012 • Waning gibbous moon Fernando Guajardo owns the Clothes2You dry cleaning business in Midway Shopping Center. He waxed optimistic ...
Lewes-Rehoboth Canal scenery and push back
By Dennis Forney - Dec 15One of the area's most dramatic views is looking southeast from the Freeman Highway Bridge over Lewes-Rehoboth Canal, the marshes of Cape Henlopen ...
Herons, turbines, Rehoboth signs, northwest trees
By Dennis Forney - Dec 022 DECEMBER 2011 • END OF THE WEEK November's wings were swift. December's days are short. We're still about 10 inches behind on rain and ducks ...
Andrew Lee in running for X Games medal design
By Dennis Forney - Nov 15Andrew Lee of Lewes has designed an X Games medal for the 2012 Winter Games that is in the finals of their design contest. The X Games are extreme ...
Coffee Amy, snow geese, wetlands slashing, other stuff
By Dennis Forney - Oct 25In Costa Rica a while back, I ran across a Lewes guy named Billy Brockway who had moved down to make his fortune south of the border. In the ...
Kickin' hippies' asses and raisin' hell
By Dennis Forney - Oct 06Thursday afternoon, October 6 Went to a Jerry Jeff Walker concert at the Grand Opera House in Wilmington last Sunday night. Been so tired all ...
Taking bicycling and beer seriously
By Dennis Forney - Sep 25In Portland, they take beer drinking and bicycling seriously. In combination, it becomes the Brewcycle that ventures out from the Bridgeport Brew ...
Schools of blues draw birds to the point
By Dennis Forney - Sep 05LABOR DAY 2011 The beaches of Delaware pulsed with surfers, boogie boarders, sun worshipers, squealing children and surf fishermen over the ...
Extreme low tide follows Irene's Cape Region departure
By Dennis Forney - Aug 29By Sunday morning following Irene's departure from Delaware's Cape Region, strong gusty winds began cranking out of the west. Once the 8:30 a.m. ...
Lewes and Rehoboth going ghostly this weekend
By Dennis Forney - Aug 26It's going to be tough getting a cup of coffee in Lewes or Rehoboth Beach this weekend - or anything else for that matter. Gov. Markell has ...
Earthquakes, Hurricanes and Extreme Makeovers
By Dennis Forney - Aug 2424 August 2011 Yoga of Karma This is the week of big stuff. The first earthquake to rumble through Delaware's Cape Region in most people's ...
More pictures from the Tiki Bra on the Chesapeake
By Dennis Forney - Jul 28My Friday Barefootin' column in the Cape Gazette deals with a number of topics including a new book titled Crab Decks and Tiki Bars on the ...
Doo Dah Parade in Lewes always starts on time
By Dennis Forney - Jul 07"Zippity doo day, zippity aaa, my oh my what a wonderful day." - Song of the South I think a doctor once told me that when it comes to the birth ...
Loving the creative ballpark scene
By Dennis Forney - Jun 27During a recent grandparenting trip to Seattle, we headed to Safeco Field for a Friday night inter-league match between the Phillies and the ...
Funsters rock Stango Park; among the swamp maples, the craic is good
By Dennis Forney - Jun 01"We can dig potatoes; we can pick tomatoes." – Junior Walker, Shotgun The Funsters brought out a crowd of more than 750 people of all ages ...
A nice, easy passage through Assawoman Canal
By Dennis Forney - May 2525 May 2011 Two weekends ago, Becky and I loaded Nellie Lankford with the bare essentials and headed south from the launching ramp in Lewes ...
Gallagher: smashing success at BayCenter
By Dennis Forney - Apr 10Fruit-smashing and trash-talking comedian Gallagher played to a full house at the BayCenter in Dewey Beach Saturday night. The fundraiser for the ...
Thanks to Billy Daisey: A '57 Chevrolet
By Dennis Forney - Apr 044 April 2011 A while back I posted a photo of a car that's been rusting away in the dunes of Cape Henlopen for as long as I've been hiking those ...
Low Country and Savannah, pre-St. Patrick's
By Dennis Forney - Mar 16We're just across the Savannah River from South Carolina. Savannah, Georgia. Just a shout out. The city's greening out, getting ready to celebrate ...
The Catchers: Art and Work Combined
By Dennis Forney - Mar 10I wrote in my Barefootin' column this week about Ken Kusterer's acrylic work called The Catchers, recently on exhibit at Rehoboth Art League's ...
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