Oh geez, it’s February! Somehow the whole month of January has slipped by, and we’ve spent so long going through the Oaxaca photos I never got around to showing you how beautiful the winter has been here in Maine. Those…
There was some very peculiar frost on my car’s spare tire this morning. It looked like tiny feathers, or petals, standing up at a 45º angle. Kind of like ruffled fish scales? It must have a name. Everything has a…
As the temperatures drop in the late fall, Mainers play a game of one-upsmanship called “We haven’t turned our furnace on yet.” It’s played by … not turning on your furnace even though the nights are dropping below freezing. You…
I finally took a walk with my camera to catch the last of the fall colors. The birches and poplars have finished, the red maples are going bare from the top down, the sugar maples are clinging to their…
Satellite moving through Orion Last night was the peak of the annual Orionid meteor shower, and I persuaded some friends to go star-hunting with me very early this morning. There were three reasons for going in the morning:1. It rained…
It’s bald, but I think it’s supposed to be like that. Who breeds bald chickens? The Common Ground Fair is held near the end of September ever year in Unity, Maine. It’s run by the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners…
The College of the Atlantic has one of the most spectacular campuses in the world. Fact! It was patched together from several grand old estates so it still has a couple of Victorian “summer cottages” and even some remnant gardens…
Our family had gathered to celebrate my father-in-law’s birthday when we were distracted by the drama unfolding in the sky. First a fragment of rainbow began to spring upward from Ironbound Island. Then a second rainbow shot off at a…
Beachcombing series No.63 I stopped by Peter’s Cove on a cool, damp afternoon when the overcast sky turned the air and the water silver. I hadn’t had a chance to beachcomb in weeks, so when I drove past this public…
Beachcombing series No. 64 Last Friday I chaperoned the 5th grade field trip to the Ship Harbor Nature Trail over in Bass Harbor. One of the many wonderful things about living in a national park is that honest-to-goodness Park Rangers…
