
Around here, this can happen well into spring.
You never know what we'll churn up in cleaning a stall

Around here, this can happen well into spring.

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.
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

In Whiting

Finn’s in Ellsworth is bound to be getting crowded this time of year.

that was the ferry in front of us
miles ago
that’s the ferry
heading back

The pond’s still frozen.
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”

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

Or so I’m guessing. The woods are full of surprises.