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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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Bits and pieces from around the region
By Dennis Forney - Sep 03I keep a collection of photographs going until I can write a blog about them or put them together for a poo poo platter of images. These are from ...
Exploring the upper Chesapeake - Havre de Grace
By Dennis Forney - Aug 21TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 • Woodland Creek • Sassafras River In The Year of Many Lords Taking a week off, though never really off. Spent yesterday ...
Gaffney signs off from WGMD
By Dennis Forney - Jul 18One of the most recognizable voices in Sussex County signed off the air Wednesday morning. WGMD-FM's morning radio show host Dan Gaffney said he ...
Delaware crops, shingle shots, real estate - not
By Dennis Forney - Jun 2929 June 2012 • 100 degrees plus today Here's some Delaware crop information issued recently by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Before ...
Indian River Inlet Bridge and a full moon
By Dennis Forney - Jun 044 June 2012 This is my father's birthday. He's gone now to heaven. My brother-in-law Cawood called him G Robert though his name was Robert ...
Spiders, marsh beauty, porch crash and vulture
By Dennis Forney - May 3131 May 2012 MORNING WALK • LOTS OF BUZZ It's a routine walk every morning from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m. Northeast on Savannah Road in Lewes, through the ...
Coastal towns getting ready for Memorial Day weekend
By Dennis Forney - May 2424 May 2012 Like householders getting ready for a party, Lewes and Rehoboth Beach - and Delaware's other coastal communities - are getting all ...
Sweet honeysuckle thickens the gray coastal air
By Dennis Forney - May 2121 May 2012 In hedgerows along roads and fields in the coastal area, the sweet smell of blooming honey suckle is pushing out into our characteristi...
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 ...
Chester River Catfish Invitational draws hundreds
By Dennis Forney - Sep 03Hundreds of anglers aboard at least 60 boats crowded for space on the upriver side of the Chester River Bridge on Maryland's Upper Eastern Shore ...
Lou Ianire's, pink marshmallows, the peak of summer
By Dennis Forney - Aug 01Peak of the Summer Marshmallows are blooming, crepe myrtles are blooming - the peak of the summer. I took the picture of the pink marshmallows a ...
Flying saucer along Delaware shore? Trail fence complete
By Dennis Forney - Jul 16Monday, July 16, 2012 • Peak of the Summer Drew Lopuski says he isn't prone to seeing things. But last Saturday night, about 10:35 p.m, after ...
Yucca blooming, old inlet bridge disappearing
By Dennis Forney - Jun 1414 June 2012 - A gray and cloudy week Here are bits and pieces gleaned from observing over the past few days. Yuccas are blooming in the coastal ...
Prickly pears blooming on a foggy June morning
By Dennis Forney - Jun 011 June 2012 • ANOTHER FOGGY MORNING A quiet morning today, thick fog muffling most of the sound. Even the shrill cries of ospreys soak quickly ...
Three superintendents and a ride to the inlet
By Dennis Forney - May 2828 May 2012 The Overfalls Foundation held its annual kick-off fundraising party Friday night, May 25, at University of Delaware's Virden Center. ...
A foggy morning and trying to reach a conch fisherman
By Dennis Forney - May 2323 May 2012 The fog rolled in as thick as pea soup overnight and laid a calm slick over the canal and vessels moored at the city dock. The fog ...
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, ...
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