Monthly:November 2016
The Bass Harbor Head Light is perhaps the most photographed of the Maine lighthouses. Built in 1858, this lighthouse marks the entrance to Blue Hill Bay and warns mariners of the Bass Harbor bar at the eastern entrance to the harbor. Located at the southwestern point of Mt. Desert Island this lighthouse is easily accessible. I took a marked trail from the parking lot that leads down to these boulders but I had a bit of a scramble to get […]
The Curtis Island Light marks the south side of Camden Harbor, Maine. Built in 1896. this light replaces a light built in 1835 by order of President Jackson. I took this photo several years ago and feel lucky to have been able to do so. The weather wasn’t brilliant the day I drove by. It had started out quite foggy but the cloud had started to lift by the time I got to this destination. There’s no public land on […]
Updated November 15th. I didn’t like the photo I used so I replaced it with a shot I took this evening. Since today marked the closest the moon will come to earth for the next 18 years I thought I’d go out and grab me an image of that big, bad, moon. I didn’t get off to the best start. Moonrise where I live was due at 6:01 pm. I live in a suburb to the west of Houston so […]
I woke this morning to a sombre grey day. It’s fall here in the USA and it’s not just the political season that is changing. That woke me up to the fact that it’s not just the political season that is changing in the USA. It’s been harder to tell than usual here on the Texas Gulf Coast. The regular season of High School Football (rent Friday Night Lights if you’ve not seen it) has come to a close with […]
