Tag: Downeast
Old Glory on barn overlooking Shackford Cove
Flowage
Streams passing through Maine forests often open out into a wetland known as a flowage, a flooding typically caused by beaver dams or other impoundments. The resulting broad habit is crucial to waterfowl production, and also provides for excellent kayaking, canoeing, and fishing.
These shots are all from one spot. Note the beaver lodge in the last one.
The next steps
Filling the new beds with clean soil atop a landscape fabric and cardboard barrier against weeds and the tainted ground below takes shape. Our planting season here naturally runs late – early June still had overnight low temperatures in the 40s. So transplanting seedlings is running on schedule.
The plastic is to help warm the soil.
The upright frames are for peas, which will probably continue to produce through the summer, thanks to the cooler temperatures. Tomatoes, though, will be tricky.
The biggest challenge will be deer, as you’ll see.
Blowing in the wind
Sun’s on the way
If it’s not gale conditions, it’s something like this
“The warm air temperatures in the upper 60s Saturday afternoon may cause people to underestimate the dangers of the cold water temperatures which are currently in the mid 40s.”
Not to speak of the strong currents.
Gee, we are surrounded by danger in all this beauty.
Glorious ferns
Camouflaged frog
Up close.
And in context.
Lilac
Jnana's Red Barn 