Monthly:February 2016
Lobsters and Lighthouses, two excellent reasons to visit Maine. This is the Marshall Point Lighthouse which signals the eastern side of the southern entrance to Port Clyde harbor. In the mid 1800’s, Port Clyde was a major port with shipbuilding facilities and fish canning operations as well as supporting the shipping of granite from local quarries. Today it’s the home of the wonderfully named ‘Herring Gut Learning Center‘ which is a vital educational resource to the surrounding community. Love the […]
The Chandler River at twilight. When I took this I was on my way to Lubec, the easternmost settlement in the United States. I was a tad concerned as I’d not been able to raise any of the B&Bs in Lubec on my phone during the day as I drove up from Boston. It was a semi planned trip but it was only when I was in the car that I decided to go all the way to Lubec then […]
Bixby Bridge is one of those must stop locations on California Route 1. About 12 miles south of Carmel or 10-ish miles north of Big Sur it’s well worth the excursion to catch the sunset. The goal had been to capture the scene at twilight but just as British Rail used to complain about the wrong type of snow, we had the wrong type of clouds for what we really wanted. Maybe next time.
Miller Time is the result of one of those, “I wonder what would happen in I…..”. In this case, having downed a few Miller Lites I read on the label that the inside of the bottle neck had a vortex inducing design – to help it pour more smoothly I guess. Looking down the neck I was taken by the way the light from the ceiling fixture was illuminating the bottle. I had a Canon PowerShot S-100 on me at […]
Blowing in the wind: I can still hear the sound even though it was many years ago. This was a supply tent, slowly being torn apart by the howling winds, laden with sand, ferocious enough to pit glass. The lighter items had long since disappeared, never to be found. Such winds were relatively rare but we were constantly needing new tents yet always hesitant to deploy them in case the ‘big storm’ came and we ran out of replacements. It […]
Morning at Lake Hartwell, a perfectly still, calm, chilly fall morning as I recall. I took this from the parking lot of my hotel before heading out to Pickens, South Carolina. My boss at the time was the wife of a vice president at Clemson University. I remember the tiger footprints painted on the roads near the campus. This would have been in the fall of 1995. I can’t place the photo now. I find it quite surprising how things […]
