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Tag Archives | Great Harbour
Always Interesting
Maine’s woods are never neat, no competition for the photogenically clear understory of, say, the giant redwoods in California. Winter storms kill trees. Some crack off and lean over on the next tree. Some dry out and remain standing almost forever. Some rot standing. They are always interesting and no more so than on Warren […]
Low Tide
Warren Island: one of Maine’s little gems. It’s a island state park without any regular transportation to and from. So boaters like ourselves pick up a park mooring and dinghy in to a nice dock. Campers often come over with loaded down canoes. Their camp sites come with more than an adequate supply of firewood […]
Sunday
A day to hang up one’s oils slicks and rest. In the winter the lobster industry runs seven days a week but in the summer, Sunday is a day off. Why? According to the lobster buyer Dee talked with in Rockland too many cruisers are out on the water. When that happens “they will pick […]
Mary Day’s Sunset
Those who keep track of such things tell us that sunsets are the most photographed subject. Our life style makes it easy to contribute to the statistics. Our presence in Penobscot Bay also makes it easy to photograph windjammers as they are everywhere. We rarely anchor without a windjammer neighbor. They provide great background for […]
Scrimshaw Beginnings
We have a request to show Dee in her scrimshaw class. So here she is. Long ago I learned that, when photographing anyone who does manual labor or a craft of any sort, go for the hands. The hands will tell a story.
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July 25, 2011
Let’s see, where were we? The a/c part arrived on Friday, and bless his heart, Asa the ‘A/C guy’ was right there when FedEx dropped it off—literally, he was siting under a tree waiting to see if our part would be on the truck. Don
Back at WBS
We are back at the WoodenBoat School so Dee can do a week of scratching Corian for practice in a scrimshaw class. Yep, Corian is the training material of choice. But that’s not the story. Jim here is the story. The last time we were here, I captured him working on a new figurehead. It […]
New York City to Palmyra, NY (July 8 – July 23)
Our cruise up the Hudson started out with the magnificent trip by Manhattan after our photo op with Moon Beam. The day was hazy, but the view was still amazing. Then the Palisades on the NJ side. Before we knew it, we had left the cities behind and wer…
Friendship Sloops
Race days for Friendship Sloops. A raging regatta this is not. The only egos on the loose are those of boys who, as always, feel the need to generate their own excitement in this case with pirate songs and water balloon barrages during the pre-start maneuvering. By all outward appearances we have a race. There […]
