From the North Country

2010-09-03T13:42:00.000-07:00

Metallak was spectacular as usual this year. I was on call this week, so haven't had time to upload any but the title photo. Maybe I can this weekend, except I will be at our camp, and won't have access to my PC with all the pix programs on it.

2008-04-22T18:04:00.000-07:00

I took some more pictures of our pond, now that it's spring...

Cactus Flowers

2008-04-19T19:09:00.001-07:00

Jonathan's cactus flowered a week or so ago.
the blossoms are only 1/4" across

Pond's Beauty

2008-01-13T15:35:00.001-08:00

Here are a couple more pictures of the pond expansion project-it's getting quite full after all this rain and warm weather. Can you say...Hockey?

Ponds - definitely not beauty cream

2007-12-12T21:21:00.000-08:00

They are finally expanding our pond.
I don't think it will be usable for a month or so...
but it will definitely be big enough for hockey.

Panorama

2007-11-15T17:21:00.001-08:00

Is that a kind of hat? Sorry, couldn't resist. I have been putting some of my panoramas together in the past month or so. (I have more!) These are some of my favorites. This requires either a very good sense of balance, or a good tripod. Maybe I should try a tripod...

The beautiful, the sublime,the grand,
the one and only Metalak Island!
Pardon my poetic lapse there...
make sure you zoom in on the right hand side, on the beach.

One of the most spectacularly strange sunsets I have ever seen. It was during the end of a thunderstorm. Also at Metalak Island.

Curtis Cove from Losey's front yard... what a sad life they lead (NOT!)Curtis Cove a bit later...
good things come to those who wait.
Panther Pond from the top of Tarkiln Hill

Misty, foggy sunset
Near the intersection of Greenwood Rd and Pleasant Hill Rd

Phang Nha Bay, Krabi, Thailand
Several of these are much wider, and some are a complete circle. I haven't figured out how to import that yet.

Against the Grain

2007-08-04T17:19:00.001-07:00

A friend of mine gave me this intriguing idea - finding shapes in woodgrain, and super-imposing a picture over it... here are my first attempts

Knot Eye

Whale Wood

Woody Merganser

Woody Gators

It's Spring 2

2007-07-18T18:44:00.000-07:00

More Flowers

Lombard's Bleeding Hearts

Crown Vetch (and unexpected visitor)

Hasta la Vista

Lily

Flowering Crab in front of our greenhouse

Crabby Flowers

Lilacs

Another Lombardi Flower

Promise of Blue

Dandy Maine
Violet
White
Valley Lily
Lilius Tigris Annius Lacius
Mossiest
Woodsy Pine

Sunrise, Sunset 2

2007-07-18T18:03:00.001-07:00

Actually, it's all sunsets... Sunrise is too early this time of year.

Sunset on Woodside

Panther Pond in the Marsh
Moon and Planet On the way home from Panther Pond

2007-05-26T19:38:00.000-07:00

It's Spring!

Caught these aunts checking out the future crop of Granny Smiths.

Sunrise, Sunset

2007-04-28T17:33:00.000-07:00

Hey folks!

It's a new year, and a busy one for me. I see that I haven't posted here since February. I guess I have been having way too much fun working, etc. I have some more pix to share with you all...
One cold morning...

Farm on Pleasant Hill Road.
I took picture from Woodside Road

Same sunrise from across the road from above mentioned farm.

Sunset taken on Woodside
road just past intersection going towards Penner's House.

Photo Week

2007-02-28T17:10:00.000-08:00

I'm taking more photos this week...

Early morning from the 2nd story of my greenhouse. For those of you who know Maynard, note his poor truck - A tree fell on the cab, and then on the way out of the woods, the transmission blew.

Here's a cool little chapel in East Raymond that I like

I thought I would try some sunset pictures...

These are taken on Woodside Drive just up towards the Penner's from the Pleasant Hill Road intersection.

Here's the latest resolution on the satellite photos on Google. This is my place. Type in your address in the map section, and zoom in!

Snow...

2007-02-18T15:19:00.001-08:00

Well, we finally got a real snowstorm on Wednesday. Maine got anywhere from 16" to 48", depending on where you live.

I had to pile up the snow a mite...
no telling what the next storm will bring.

Old Bessie still knows how to push snow.

This is our picnic table with a little frosting on the top...if you get my drift.

Speaking of picnic...at work the computer department uses picnic as an acronym for some PC troubles they run into:
Problem
In
Chair
Not
In
Computer.
Ha Ha...

Pictures from Southern

2007-02-18T15:18:00.001-08:00

Here are some pictures from my Alma Mater...

The campus, from the hill above the student park.

The ad building at night.

Flox on the Bank

Azaleas in spring beside Wright Hall.
The only problem with scanning in old snapshots is that you are limited to the ability of your scanner.

Sunset at Ocoee

Sundapples in the water at Ocoee

Sunleaf

Waterfall at Ocoee

Pine cone in the junipers.

Untangled web...

2007-01-26T16:41:00.000-08:00

At last, a bit of the old ever evasive, legendary spare time...
A few more pix? I think I shall...

Flowers from my back yard...
Maine, that is.

Lady Slippers
Did you know that this is an orchid?

Painted Trillium

Purple Trillium

Orchids,
Taken in Puerto Rico, where they grow in the jungle

Yellow Hibiscus
Taken in my yard in Puerto Rico a looong time ago.

Unknown
Taken in Thailand

An Offering

"Rooster-tail" boat
Pang Na Bay, Krabi, Thailand

Taken from a cave on James Bond Island, Thailand.

More new Photos...

2006-12-11T17:26:00.000-08:00

I thought I would share just a few more pictures from my trip to Thailand at the beginning of 2006. I also just noticed that I started this post in December, but never posted it.

James Bond Island

Monument to a fallen hero.

Moorish Idol

The head of an idol, being idle in a veritable idyll.
Nothing like the topical application of a tropical topic, as long as you preclude any sub-integumentary infiltration.
Such an idealistic collection of ideologic meanderings in such idyllic surroundings could tend to make one a bit vertiginous, to say the least.

more old photos

2006-12-11T17:11:00.000-08:00

I do have some favorites from days gone by....

These pitcher plants I photographed on the floating islands in Richardson Lake, Maine, on a boat ride with the Childs, in the 80's.

Taken in Pennsylvania in the 70's

One of our Keeshonds as a pup, at Popham Beach State Park, Maine in the 90's

2006-12-10T19:03:00.000-08:00

I suppose I should feel some remorse for what I am about to perpetrate on the unsuspecting web explorers who chance upon this obscure, ethereal monologue. However, there is that within me that blithely forges ahead into flights of fancy that those of my ilk are so often wont to do. Therefore, with the cessation of this obscure and overly verbose method of stating my lack of shame or apology, I bequeath this seasonal banality to one and all….

This is a scan from a mug (or sometimes referred to as a mug shot) that was bestowed upon me long ago during just such a festive month in which we find ourselves. Somehow I couldn't keep it to myself.

New Photos

2006-12-09T18:47:00.000-08:00

I have been apprised of the fact that I have been remiss in sharing my photos. Unfortunately, I have let my love of photography languish for a number of years. I have continued to take "snapshots", but not really with a view to utilizing the skills I learned over the years. More recently I have entered into a renaissance with regards to my photos. As time permits I will begin to bridge the gap between my "Old Photos" and my more contemporary efforts. I appreciate your indulgence as I explore the revival of seeing a photo op in every situation.
The following are a few of my more recent attempts.

This photo was taken beside a temple in Bangkok, Thailand. They had these great urns, nearly three feet across, in which they had these little mini ponds.
I liked this particular flower, as it looked as if it were on fire in the center, glowing almost white hot.

We visited my daughter in Thailand at the end of December 2005. We saw many strange and wonderful sights.

This is a boat that Jonathan and David owned for about one year. They fixed it up, and then sold it. Great fun was had by all before it was gone.
This lake is called Panther Pond. In the great Maine tradition, sometimes lakes can be as small as one mile across eg. Canton Lake; or as in this case a Pond is three by five miles. I love it.

As we were driving over to Quaker Ridge, which overlooks Panther Pond, this flock of turkeys presented themselves for my photographing pleasure.

Amazing how it can be beautiful, even when the tide is out.
This is taken at Phang Na Bay, Krabi, Thailand. We stayed here for several days, at the beginning of this year.

What's wrong with this picture?

2006-12-09T14:23:00.000-08:00

Well...
Nancy was coming home from church, rounded the curve and lost control. Our new plow guy needs some lessons in enough sanding for our hill. It didn't help that the jimmy wasn't in 4 wheel drive.
O well...
Thank God for AAA.

Here's pix

finally, I got all the pix on here

Found Pix

2006-11-19T16:45:00.001-08:00

This post is for pictures I have found on the internet that caught my eye, or have some humor in them.

This one is from webshots.

That's not safe!

I didn't keep track of where this one came from.

2006-11-12T15:20:00.001-08:00

More Old Pix
The first three I took for my Black and White Photo Class at Southern in the '70's
The last one I took on a Pathfinder Campout in the '80's. We were supposed to find something in nature that applied biblically.

These scans are from 8x10 prints that I made for the class. We had to learn to develop, and then print our own photos.

The Kitten is very happy on this cold day. If you look closely, he is on a furry surface. It's the back of a horse. I put him up there to see what he would do, and he curled up happily and stayed there.

Queen Anne's Lace

This lizard wanted me to know that this was his territory. Hence the "chin-up".

This old barn looked ready to fall at any moment. I feel that way sometimes. (old and rickety)

Brazen Serpent
Freeport, Maine
I held this little guy so long that he just sat there when I put him on the twig.

Old Photos

2006-11-08T15:18:00.000-08:00

Fort Popham from the inside

Frogstool

Slippers for the Lady

Utter Bliss

My Daughter a long time ago

A Tree and An Arch