Azaleas, rhododendrons and landscape accents of every description are all in bloom! What’s more, your lawn looks like the cover of “Better Homes and Gardens,” as weeds and summer drought have yet to set in!
The kids can’t concentrate with just a few weeks left of class, and the first of the weekenders begin to cross the bridges and nearly double the local population. Native Cape Codders know all the secrets to preserving their daily routine. Shop midweek, and avoid Routes 6, 6A and 28 Friday through Sunday.
Notice a lot of out of state license plates? The snowbirds are back too. Half year Florida residents have completed their reverse migration by now. In addition to Florida plates, you’ll see quite a few from New York and Connecticut as well. Each will navigate rotaries (what the rest of the world calls traffic circles or roundabouts) with a different degree of skill, or perhaps none at all.
Cape Cod League Baseball begins in June! The league comprised of college kids from all over the country hosts games in most Cape communities. Major League Baseball scouts are known to survey the talent for potential future all stars.
Beaches will fill fast on sunny days, even if there aren’t many people in the water. The best advice is to go early, and on weekdays if possible.
For beachcombers, early in the season affords for some of the best shells to be found along the shore before they’re picked over. Those big shells that you hold to your ear in hopes of hearing the ocean? In the Caribbean they’re called Conch, on Cape Cod, they’re called Whelk. Early to mid - June is sometimes the best time to find them in the shallows!
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