Maine Views

We hiked Katahdin in Baxter State Park on June 13. Turns out it was the nicest day all month! The mountain -

From inside the bowl -

The view east from the trail -

The view south and west from Baxter peak -

Looking north from the Knife Edge -

The Knife Edge - the way we came -

Back at camp -

We had two birds fly into our biggest window this spring. They probably saw my indoor garden and tried to fly into it. This is an ovenbird, which I found dead on the lawn.

I heard this goldfinch slam into the window & went out & picked him up. I poked & prodded him a bit to wake him up and make sure he wasn't hurt. He hung out in my hand for ten minutes or so, then dashed off ...

Another from my trillium collection. I have a yellow trillium too, but it didn't bloom this year.

Here's a detail. These were really hard to photograph for some reason.

Another home-sown wildflower.

Also known as Wake Robin and Stinking Benjamin (!). A wildflower. I grew these from seed.

Some photos from the spring garden. I'm trying out the macro setting on my new camera.

Here are a couple of pictures from a recent visit to Popham Beach. It was low tide. The Morse River has changed course again, so we could walk out to the near island. In this photo, Seguin Island (with the lighthouse on it) looks like it's rising out of the near island.

The sea was pretty rough, and the day was cloudy, but it got nicer as it went along & was clear and sunny by the time we left.

Just by way of contrast to my last post, here's a view of the same area as "the forest falls into the sea," albeit from a place further down the shore that's now about 15 feet under water at high tide. This photo was taken about five years ago. A dynamic ecosystem indeed.

Here are some photos taken this week at Popham beach. The Morse river has changed course dramatically over the past couple of years, and the beach as I have known it for the last 30 years is changing dramatically. Most of the state park beach is gone at high tide, and the shore line has migrated dozens of yards inland. Here the forest is falling into the sea as the (formerly back-) dune erodes.

It's about a six-foot drop at the end of the pathway where the sand has eroded away ...

So far this winter, there's been good skiing, a bit of skating and just plain old walking around. Here's a photo of one of my favorite trees, in Pennelville, with a tire swing on it. Just waiting for someone to swing on it ...

This is also a favorite tree. Although long dead, it's always fun to skate around it. It's in a pond on Rossmore Road.