Figure 1 – Salem Safe Harbor Marina at Hawthorne Cove in the fog of a July morning. Safe Harbor Hawthorne Cove, Salem, MA (c) DE Wolf 2020.

It was a warm and humid morning in Salem, but when I reached the Marina at Safe Harbor, Hawthorne Cove, I was struck by this unexpected fog bank. It offered up not just lack of perfect detail but beautiful pastel shades and features in the distance struggling to reveal themselves – specters in the mist. Beauty is transformed to greater beauty. It is truly the case that fog works its special magic and makes you see well-known vistas in new and spectacular ways.

“In nature, everything has a job. The job of the fog is to beautify further the existing beauties!”