Image of the day

Spring?

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]]> When I looked out the window this morning I thought I must have over slept February or something. This guy and a few of his buddies were hanging out on the Juniper bush munching on the berries. I'm not to worried about them, they seem to know they can do ok hanging around the shopping centers eating berries off the trees and stay somewhat warm in the bushes next to the stores. It did get into the 50's today, kind of warm for January 13th.

New Years Eve

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]]> Our friend Rob and his wife Marie had some people over for a cookout and a bonfire. None of were sure where exactly the word bonfire came from so I just looked it up. A bonfire or balefire is a large controlled outdoor fire made from bales of straw or wood. The word is believed to be a corruption of "bone fire" deriving from a Celtic midsummer festival where animal bones were burnt to ward off evil spirits. So we were about 6 months early for that definition.

Red sky in the morning...

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]]> Labor Day weekend we woke up one morning to this deep red light filling the camper. By the time I got up, went out to the beach and took this picture it had faded some.

Gourdgeous

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]]> I think the pun says it all.

Christmas cactus

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]]> Mom's Christmas cactus in bloom.

More Ice

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]]> So many people liked the first Ice picture that I thought I would add another one.

First Ice

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]]> Okay, I'm not going to make you guess what this is. The other day we had our first freeze and this is the ice off the bird bath in the garden. It had leafs and evergreen clippings frozen into it. I just stood it up on edge and took a picture of it.

Sidewalk Gecko

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]]> This Image represents about 3.5 inches of Gecko. The red part it seems is only for special occasions. It probably has more than a few uses but you hardly ever see them use it. Until I saw this guy do it I didn't even know that they did it.

Cape Neddick ("Nubble") Light

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]]> I never get tired of visiting this light house. I must have a hundred pictures of it. We've kayaked around it. We took our scuba lessons in the waters off to the left of the picture. At low tide you can walk across to the island but you can't go on the island. You can go to this web site and learn more about it. Nubble Light

B-17

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]]> What can I say, an aviation masterpiece. You can read more about this plane at THIS address.

Tommy Island

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]]> This is a picture of a little Island called Tommy island. The people live on the island with a bunch of dogs and if you paddle
to close to the island they come out and bark up a storm (the dogs that is). The map shows the approximate position (the red plus sign) I was in my kayak when I took the picture. The distance to the island is about .25 miles. The "Map" it self is a TopoZone map not a chart, for all of you mariners. The Coordinates are 44° 01' 20"N, 69° 06' 41"W (WGS84/NAD83)
USGS Rockland Quad. The Lobster buoy campground is adjacent to the word "mud" on the map but it's actually not that
muddy. Miss Mabel, the owner of the campground, refers to Eben island as Ebb's island. So as far as I'm concerned the map is wrong.

Garter Snake

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]]> Everyone has one in the yard or one of his relatives if you live out west.

Night Ferry

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]]> We were walking along the waterfront in portland last night and I was taking some night shots. Just as we got to this pier
one of the ferries was pulling in. I took a 1.6 second exposure that came out kind of grainy, so I cleaned it up in
Neat Image
and fiddled with it some in PSP and this is what came out.

Another boat picture

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]]> We were Kayaking down the Saco river towards the ocean when I heard Lynn behind me say "Look at this boat coming
up behind you." I could hear her and not really the boat so I was surprised to see this beauty overtaking us. When I looked
it up on the internet I was also surprised to find out it is actually a new boat. You can see more pictures of it on her
builders website at http://www.rumerys.com/Holland38.html

PORTLAND BREAKWATER LIGHT ("BUG LIGHT")

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]]> Before this light house was the center peace of a nice little park it sat at the edge of a massive ship building yard where 296 Liberty Ships were built before and during the second World War. If you want to know more about the monument and the ship yard go to www.portlandharbormuseum .org and check it out.