The annual equinox Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine, features multiple contradances each day in its folk traditions tent. The Maine Fiddle Camp hosts musicians and callers on the stage.
Tag: Photos
These are some stunning organ pipes, visually
Christian Congregational church in Lubec. I hate to think what it costs to maintain them. Much less employ a musician slash minister worthy of them.
Wet pocket
Vassalboro, Maine
Righthand or lefthand rope
Or line, as they insist
right-handed cord
coil it clockwise?
left-handed, counter?
Right laid
a Z twist
versus an S twist
in the cable
coiled wrong, it will kink
potentially dangerous
where will I apply such arcane detail?
Cedar sprig
Cattails in the air
Classically, this emblem of autumn is here. I remember the first time I saw these in the Midwest, however esoterically at the time of my preadolescence.
First blush
Belmont, Maine
Dale’s heavenly nap
As he had told me:
urchins once filled all the shoreline rocks
till the Japanese market opened up
flights from Bangor
fishery now tightly licensed
hoping for recovery
An old-fashioned farm windmill was doing whatever on one island we passed.
Booming breakers
As you see in York, Maine, the open Atlantic can get wild.
Firewood wall
And now, to let it season for a year.
Jnana's Red Barn 