Bar Island, May 28, 2011 (available here) It was my mother-in-law’s 70th birthday, and a huge crowd of relatives had gathered for a week of feasting and talking. The day was cold and wet, with a low gray sky that…
Eddie’s Brook, May 28, 2011 (available in my etsy shop) Eddie’s Brook is an unpretentious little stream that winds through the neighborhoods to the northeast of the Bar Harbor village. It starts somewhere near the top of Great Hill and…
The Shore Path, Mother’s Day 2011 I have a month’s worth of photos piled up to share with you, and we’ll start with Mother’s Day. The whole family went for a walk on the Shore Path at sunset. The kids…
Brown Sea Glass & Beach China Sea glass bottle bits, a sea glass mug handle and an assortment of random shards; sea brick in several colors; very old pottery water-pipeline fragments; bits of china plates and stoneware mug handles; an…
Sargent Head, April 12, 2011 These black stones are so smooth your fingers glide right over them. I think they are basalt, which is a very fine-grained igneous rock. Apparently it forms much of the ocean floor, and is also…
Blue & White Beach China, April 2011. Prints available in my etsy shop. In the 14 years I’ve lived on this island, I’ve picked up a lot of china on the beach. These are some of my favorite pieces of…
Fork, Knife, Spoon (Treasure beach, February 20, 2011) The sun came out for a while and the tide was high but ebbing, so I headed down to my favorite collecting beach. By the time I got there it was overcast…
Seal Harbor, February 14, 2011 The day I found the hundreds of sand dollars I also found some other interesting things, but I was so excited about the sand dollars I forgot to post this image!
Sand Dollars, Seal Harbor Beach, February 14, 2011 …at least from the beachcomber’s point of view. The echinoderms might not agree. It was a cloudy grey but relatively warm day in February, probably in the 40s. There was just enough…
Green & Brown, The Bar, February 11, 2011 When I got back from beachcombing last Friday I sat down and wrote this right away (but it took me until now to edit all the photos and post it!): I’ve had…
