A forest of radio towers

January 29, 2022November 30, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

The U.S. Navy’s communications center in Cutler has 27 radio towers.

They communicate with vessels anywhere in the Atlantic as well as the Mediterranean, including submarines.

The low-frequency signals originate in a two-million watt transmitter in the building at center.

Late afternoon ripples

January 25, 2022November 30, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Old pilings and weir nets seem outside time on the waterfront .

Wall crab or what?

January 22, 2022November 30, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Found while stripping away wallpaper. Along with a lot of silver paint used on the woodwork.

I don’t think so

January 18, 2022November 30, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Not anywhere I’d want to go. This could be the prompt for a Stephen King novel.

This bus died long ago beside a remote Maine highway along with some truck trailers and more.

Nerida alone in the snow

January 15, 2022November 30, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Sea smoke

January 12, 2022 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 2 Comments

Surrounded by wisps of vapor, a scallop boat dredges in the waters between Maine and New Brunswick.

Driven by low temperatures and low humidity, vapors known as sea smoke rise from the warmer waters of the sea below. Not that they’re anywhere what you or I would call warm. Still, some mornings you cannot even see the water from any distance but only a churning cake frosting, and when it races in a stiff breeze, the effect is eerie, like looking down on a storm.

A trio of summer places around the corner

January 11, 2022November 30, 2021 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 2 Comments

They’re serious about kayaking on the sea.

Just down the street

January 9, 2022January 9, 2022 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 3 Comments

Weather Underground kept scaling back its anticipated snowfall here, cutting it to a tad over three inches. Instead, we woke up to this yesterday, about 9½ inches after a day of blizzard conditions. Seemed strange going from near whiteout one day to cloudless blue the next.

Should I mention this was a break in our ongoing gale conditions?

We’re bracing for subzero temperatures in the coming nights, but a minus four is still ten degrees warmer than just up the road. And then another half-foot is on the horizon.

I know we’re hardly alone when it comes to scenes like this, and I’m grateful I no longer have to commute through hazardous storm conditions.