Isle au Haut, Maine.
Category: Postcards
Harbor worker on a mooring dolphin with a ship’s line attached to its bollard
He’s waiting for the USS Oscar Austin to slacken the heavy line so he can heave the loop into the water as the destroyer prepares for departure during last year’s naval visit to town.
Here’s how it looked earlier in the week with the tide a bit higher. A worker had to haul the thick line up from the water.
Studies in green and gray
Spanish moss drapes many of our forests. Scenes like these often remind me of Neil Welliver’s large, prized paintings and distinctive palette.
Dewy web
Inside the Breakwater basin
Yes, Eastport is a working waterfront. Especially if you like lobster.
Fog with Campobello Island, Canada
As seen from from our neighbor’s across the street in Eastport, Maine.
As seen from our kitchen table
Black guillemot
The white marker on the wings of the bird’s black summer plumage make a striking identity. It’s one of the many waterfowl species I’m being introduced to far from my native Midwest.
Machias River
The 75-mile-long Machias River is Maine’s leading salmon habitat and was a major lumbering stream. There is little settlement or paved-road access upstream from here, the bridge in Whitneyville.
Lush ferns in the wild
They still charm me.
These are at the Cobscook Friends Meetinghouse in Whiting.
Jnana's Red Barn 