Morning Webs...

It's astonishing how much work gets done every night while some of us are staying up watching the Red Sox...

Mushroom...

This little guy is doing business at the edge of our driveway completely oblivious to the global financial crisis or the increasingly nasty and never-ending Presidential campaign.

More ballooning...

This balloon emerged from the morning mist today and landed in a nearby field...

Sailing Balloon...

Meg took this shot of a balloon sailing over a sea of morning fog.

Foggy and Frosty...

It was cool - about 31°- this morning. I took some shots of the foggy coolness that the fall has brought...

Late afternoon light...

Shrooms...

Fall Panorama...

Pals?

To the nines...

Caught this guy a couple weeks ago on our beautiful brown eyed susans. He was dressed to the nines...

Fall on the Pompy...

The Ompompanusuc is showing signs of fall...

Skowhegan ME. Indian...

Apropos of nothing, I stumbled on this photo recently. I find this vision of the Skowhegan Indian trying to make it in the modern world kind of wistful.

Balloon at Sunset...

Sculpturefest...

We visited Sculpturefest 2008 in Woodstock this weekend. It was an amazing collection in a very beautiful setting.

Sphinx...
And one of several cats...
Sadly, I don't remember who is responsible for this beautiful and hopeful piece...

Dynamic Morning...

This morning was full of bright light, clouds, and color. Amazing...

Sharing...

Meg took this shot of a couple of finches sharing our sunflower seeds. Mother and daughter we're guessing?

Very late season Sunflower...

I'll try very hard not to submit you to any more sunflowers... but I can't promise anything...

Bottoms Up!

Meg captured this yellow finch working on one of our recently blooming sunflowers...

Illuminated Leaf.

Yellow Garden Spider

Coming...
And going...

Young Finch...

Meg captured this young finch on our railing the other day...

New Harbor Gull

At Rachael Carson Salt Pond in early August as the storm comes in. It was a surprising display of contrasts that day with blue sky, bright but low light, and a few *very* dark clouds coming into view.

Morning Web...

Late season sunflower...

Ann Arbor...

We were in Ann Arbor for a family wedding this weekend...

Hummingbirds...

Busy Bee...

This fellow was working the brown eyed susans this morning...
While this fellow was working the sunflower circuit...

Take 2...

Finches in the Fog...

Indian Pipes...

So long New Harbor...

Later afternoon goodbye to the sea here in New Harbor...

Sunrise

I finally had a morning where I actually got up to see the sun rise - and we weren't completely socked in with clouds.



An island (Western Egg Rock perhaps?) out across the way as the sun topped the horizon...

Harrington Meeting House Cemetery

We walked the cemetery behind the Harrington Meeting House and Museum this afternoon. It holds many, many people taken by the sea, either through war (there were many Captains - though Meg points out these could be ship's captains not military Captains) or through commerce, specifically whaling. Also an awful proportion of children; many families experiencing the loss of many children before age twenty.

Oh, and it was kind of a spooky place...

Evening Buoy...

We've had a rainy time this week but the other night we had a beautiful end to the day, with the sun shining it's last rays on the buoy outside the New Harbor harbor.

Pemaquid Point...

We took a rainy walk this afternoon over the rocks of Pemaquid Point...

Evening Light...

Meg snapped this shot of an absolutely beautiful sunset here in New Harbor. The boat coming by is the Hardy Boat Evening Cruise...

Roughin It...

Meg snapped this picture of me working hard to get through another tough day here in New Harbor. Where are the fried oysters?

Dogs in Boats...

An interesting theme to the day. First a dog on a lobster boat in New Harbor, shown here skiffing back to the dock with the boat captain...


... then later in the day in Pemaquid Harbor...

Fast and Slow...

I've been taking entirely too many pictures of moving water lately. I thought this pair kind of interesting. The first is mid-afternoon with bright light and a fast shutter.


The second is late afternoon with softer light and a slower shutter as the water recedes from the rocky shore.