Once quintessential and now mostly obsolete, collected along the shoreline. What one observer has dubbed an outdoor closet on a neighbor’s deck.
Tag: Photos
Coffee corner
It’s something that will get an improved setting once we tackle the kitchen renovations.
Argyle street
This marker in Castine, Maine, reflects an often overlooked side of the American Revolution. Some residents who had opposed the revolt were forced to leave the new country.
Many of these Loyalists packed up their houses, walls and all, and rebuilt them in settlements in New Brunswick, Canada, near where I now live. Their descendants are active on both sides of the border, as I’m learning.
Open string jam with Gerry O’Connor
The second-Saturdays afternoon event at a local tavern is already full of fine memories, including a visiting famed Irish fiddler shown here. Its core is MICE, the Moose Island Contradance ensemble. That space was soon filled with other players.
A long shot of our highest peak
Winter snow makes the crest of Katahdin, Maine’s tallest mountain, visible from 90 miles away in Wesley, Maine. A clear sky helps, of course.
The view is from State Route 192 just off the heavily traveled S.R. 9.
Maybe you can still pick it out with less zoom and a little more context.
Puzzling tracks
They haven’t quite matched anything I’m finding in my field-guide books.
Dennys River
Tide and deep cold ruffle the ice.
Bouquet from a festive occasion
How quickly a year passes. I loved this arrangement at a Tides Institute gathering last summer.
I’ve been mispronouncing it all along
The name of the reservation, I mean. The opening S is supposed to sound more like a Z.
As for the tribe? The anglicized version demonstrates how tin-eared most Americans have been throughout history. Makes me wonder what else has been lost in translation.
We’re surrounded by water, salty water, on our island
Eastport’s on the island to the left. Keep an eye out for gale warnings, too.
