Old wallpaper is part of an old house history. Some of it’s showing up inside old closets, not that we have many of those.
Tag: Downeast
Islesboro Light and island
Long, thin wedge in the bay
Hollywood stars summer palaces
Somebody’s mansion and grounds all alight
Phosphorescent water
stirred up into tiny fireflies,
sparks
plankton summer
a summer home
on an island in Maine
is here
and there, too
Crane Brook
In Whiting
Irish bar in an old dining car
Finn’s in Ellsworth is bound to be getting crowded this time of year.
Islesboro ferry
that was the ferry in front of us
miles ago
that’s the ferry
heading back
Mill run
The pond’s still frozen.
Fire on board
Wooden sailing vessels traditionally had only one fire onboard, the cook’s stove. I can’t imagine how cold sailors, much less passengers, were through most of the year.
Windjammers hew to that tradition.
a wooden sailing vessel
with a wood-fired cook stove
and kerosine lanterns
two iceboxes
Smoke from the cookstove goes
into a T-shaped chimney vent
don’t get too close
“Smokestack,” not “chimney”
maybe “noble Charlie”
Crossing Penobscot Bay
cruise ship off Rockport
glare against haze of blue
Camden Hills a thousand-plus feet
other schooners out of Rockland
Eagle Island light
Mark Island light
Saddleback Ledge light
too far off to photograph
American Eagle
full sail
after a nap
Broken dam
Or so I’m guessing. The woods are full of surprises.
A sense of Lake Meddybemps
Sunrise County is laced with big lakes. In fact, 21 percent of it 3,258 square miles is water, including streams of all sizes, bogs and flowages, and ponds.
The largest lake, Meddybemps, covers more than 27 square miles within four towns, reaches a maximum depth of 58 feet, is dotted with islands, and is famed for its smallmouth bass fishing.
Light on winter ice provides a unique clarity in perceiving the lake’s profile, seen in part here from State Route 214.
Jnana's Red Barn 