Maine Views

Here's an update on the ongoing erosion at Popham beach, which looked like it had abated last summer. It's definitely getting worse. This photo is looking east, towards the main beach from the shore of the Morse River.

Here's a view of the dune/bank. Clearly there isn't much under the forest holding things together. Recently fallen trees. In the background you can see the roof of the hideous new changing station & rest rooms. The spot where it's located used to be hundreds of yards from the water. They don't stay where they are long once they fall. This is looking west. Some of the trees have also ended up several miles east, along the Kennebec river.

Japanese maple leaves on a windless November day.

I saw this tree today. All that red is crab apples, not leaves. I'll have to come back in the morning sometime so I can get it in full sun.

Food for the birds. Flocks of robins and waxwings will be by to eat them in the early spring, once they thaw and are sweet. If they wait long enough, the'yll get tipsy on them. That's usually a comical sight.

The sun coming up over the White Mountains.

And the Green Mountains (at least some Vermont hills).

The chief cook and bottle washer.

Always make a pie first. It looks good!

man.

He didn't last long. In fact someone used him to style her hair. Now we know how she gets that naturally Frostied look! A little art was created too.

A hilltop behind Phil's farm with exotic fauna.

The view east & south from the top of the hill. The view from the camp.

Here's the road up to Phil's farm.

What it looks like when you arrive. Twilight looking east (the above view is north, like Canada). I must admit it's a bit odd posting photos from Vermont here, but I contend that if you look hard enough through the notch north of the White Mountains, you can see Maine. So anything else from the same location is legit! Sunset (looking west).

We went to visit our friend Phil at his farm in Vermont. Here's the house -

the view the farmer and the crop

I typically think of burning bush as a weed, but it sure does the fall color thing well.

Here's an interesting leaf - it couldn't decide, so it went bi-color. The leaves this year have a lot of disease, probably from the wet summer. And they've been turning fast, maybe from the dry weather in August and September. But beautiful nonetheless ...

Here's another view from Puzzle Mountain showing some early fall color. It's more or less peaking right now, three weeks later.