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Outside our Quaker meetinghouse

May 18, 2024April 7, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Yes, spring is finally breaking out around here. Whiting, Maine.

Laughing tree

May 17, 2024April 7, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Gnarled trunk on a trail at West Quoddy looks like a living gargoyle.

 

Pembroke spring

May 16, 2024April 7, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

At the lower fish ladder.

Serene beaver lodge

May 13, 2024April 7, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

 

Mark Island light

May 12, 2024April 7, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

do Fresnel lenses ratings run
up (from lowest)
to top, five (for highest)
or the other way around?

Turn’s out 1 is the strongest
5, the least

what are the others really thinking
or observing under their cheerful banter?

The view from Shackford Head

May 11, 2024May 2, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Those are salmon pen farms, should you be interested.

And that’s the point, in Cobscook Bay.

 

Twin trunks beside a stream

May 8, 2024April 30, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Cedar in Whiting, Maine

Three eagles

May 6, 2024March 15, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Knock before entering the ‘head’

May 5, 2024April 23, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ Leave a comment

Working the toilet is an art … as for showers?
I’m getting the swing of it.

 

Last leg, motoring toward Camden
the cabbage with the corned beef last night
has done a number on me

we’re all in the same boat
for now

Shackford Head, our small but glorious state park

May 4, 2024April 30, 2024 ~ Jnana Hodson ~ 1 Comment

A state park right in our small city set upon Moose Island has some marvelous side trails. And to think, the site nearly became a stinky oil refinery. Hats off to citizen action!

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