Ocean City In The Off-Season

What do we do in Ocean City during the long off-season? I submit the above photo as an example. Wait, there’s more.
People keep busy resting up from the Season just past, or preparing for the Season to come. There’s always stuff to be painted or repaired. I intend to clean my apartment; rearrange the furniture; [...]

Stupid Media Tricks (The Washington Post); And Blogging With Flair (Girl On The Brink)

The amazing implosion of the MSM (that’s mainstream media) continues.
The Washington Post unveiled a new, dumbed-down version of its Sunday magazine a couple of weeks ago. More ads, less content. Don’t these newspaper guys get it? Don’t they understand that every redesign speeds up the downward death spiral.
Last Sunday, The Post magazine featured a story [...]

Walk For St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital @ Ocean City

The quiet of late October is beginning to settle over Ocean City. The Season is over. Time for a rest. I haven’t had much time for walking during the season, so it seemed like a luxury to spend two leisurely hours strolling on the Boardwalk this past weekend.  It’s a great way to unwind [...]

Two Perfectly Good Years, Used Up Blogging

The blog you’re reading marks its second anniversary today. The first post went up Oct. 4, 2007. By coincidence, not plan, this is post Number 300.
Maryland On My Mind has had more than 65,000 hits. Zero to 65,000 in two years. Not a speed record maybe, but not bad for a regional blog that’s updated once [...]

Ocean City, Maryland, Midsummer 2009

Family Vacation Time
The next couple of weeks in Ocean City will be hot, sunny, happy and crowded. Daytime highs in the 80’s, sometimes hitting 90. Nighttime lows 65 to 75 degrees. One gas station reduced the price of regular to $2.41 today.
We’re at the peak of the summer vacation season here in Ocean City, Maryland — [...]

Ocean City Business at Mid-Season, 2009

The Boardwalk looks festive and crowded in Ocean City, Maryland. And you see a lot of cars in the parking lot at the WalMart between Berlin and Ocean City.
What you don’t see is very many tourists carrying filled shopping bags on the Boardwalk. And you won’t see every parking space filled along Baltimore Avenue and St. [...]

Ocean City Ready For Picture-Perfect July 4 Weekend

Sunshine and more sunshine is the forecast for the long Fourth of July holiday weekend in Ocean City, Maryland, from Thursday right on through at least Monday. It will be seasonably hot, high temperatures each day in the 80-84 degree range, just right for swimming in the Atlantic Ocean. The surf felt warm this morning, [...]

Signs of Summer

The daylily is beginning to bloom in Maryland. It can only mean that July 4 is around the corner.
Saw my first fireflies of summer last night. Also yesterday, we turned on the home air conditioning for the first time this year.
Ocean City’s spell of unusually cool and cloudy weather is about over. Yesterday afternoon was [...]

Bicycling on the Boardwalk

 Ocean City has extended Boardwalk bicycling hours until 11 a.m. Monday through Friday
Bicycling on the Boardwalk is more popular than ever in Ocean City, Maryland.
For as long as I can remember, the cutoff time for riding bicycles on the boardwalk has been 10 in the morning during the summer season. This summer, the City Council has [...]

Volleyball, Surfing, Skateboarding, Art — All in OC This Weekend

Update (Friday, 3:15 p.m.) 82 degrees in West Ocean City, bright sunshine.) The professional beach volleyball tournament, on the sand in Historic Downtown Ocean City, is going to have awesome semifinals and finals Saturday and Sunday. The center court is on the beach at Somerset Street. Can anyone send me pictures? I can’t pay you, [...]