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.
Category: Postcards
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.
Superyacht on the scene
We’re not overrun with them, unlike Bar Harbor and points south and west.
As a preview of tonight’s aerial show
Here are “four for the Fourth,” a sampling from last year’s pyrotechnics display. The photos were taken from maybe 200 feet away from the firing line on the Fish Pier. It’s always a fine festive event along the waterfront.
Have a happy and safe Fourth of July.
Beach trash art
Lubec blue-collar artist Chuck Kniffen created Rosebud, above, and Unicorn, below, from debris found along the shoreline.
Ready to go
At the Breakwater.
Small-town festivities reminder
Eastport’s big homecoming week and Fourth of July celebrations are just ahead. We face a long list of events.
The annual all-ages cod relay race, using salmon, is zany fun.
And people turn out for parades.
We don’t know if it really is the world’s largest or even legal, it’s still a good gag.
As well as a few surprises.
Day lily
Somehow, this one evaded the ravenous deer.
Apples taking shape plus a dewy spider web
Jnana's Red Barn 