Hey all its been awhile since I posted! Here is a B&W photo I took a couple months back of a lighthouse in Maine.

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The grass is always greener…

This is a photo of what is left of an old horse stable from a large estate that is now a state park. Nearby the graveyard for the horses can be found. I will post a few more photos from this stable over the coming days.

I really loved all the different textures and colors behind this spring branch budding with new life so I of course took a photograph of it.  Was lucky to have that Bee show up too!

So disappointing. I had my ice skates with me and everything.

Was great seeing a little bit of color that this Blue Jay provided during a snow storm a few weeks ago. He really stood out in a sea of dull brown and white that the winter brings!

Finally back with a new photo! Missed me?

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“One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them, filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking; but their surface was sparkling with the present: like sun shimmering on the outer leaves of a vast tree, or on the ripples of a very deep lake. I don’t know but it felt as if something that grew in the ground — asleep, you might say, or just feeling itself as something between root-tip and leaf-tip, between deep earth and sky had suddenly waked up, and was considering you with the same slow care that it had given to its own inside affairs for endless years.”
—The Two Towers by JRR Tolkien

I thought these brown mushrooms looked sort of like a pile of donuts! I doubt they taste as good though!

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I could not decide if I went to far or not with the softening of this image.  Eventually I decided I preferred the softened version as it has a dreamlike  feeling to it that draws me in.  I have included the normal version below that I almost posted instead. Which version do you prefer? Click on the thumbnail below of the unsoftened version to make it bigger.

I never got around to posting this photo from my Nubble Lighthouse series so I figured now was as good a time as any!

Well its the week of July 4th and here in MA it has been one of the rainiest and coldest Junes I can remember! I thought this photo was appropriate considering the dreary weather.

Looks like these Squirrels may have a system where one looks for food while the other acts as a lookout.

I know it looks like I was laying on the ground when I took this but in fact the Squirrels were on the top of a hill and I was standing pretty much eye level with them at the bottom of the hill.  I just zoomed way in! It was alot easier then getting all dirty on the ground!

Wonder if he found any buried treasures?

Taken Memorial Day Weekend at Hampton Beach NH.

This dog, that I assume belonged to the owner of this small store, was watching intently as each person walked by or came into the store to browse for souvenirs.

Meet the new Double-Mint gum twins!  This was a beach side photo-shoot for their new ad campaign. 

These Ducks tucked their heads in when I came near. I think they where cleaning themselves but it looks like they are trying to hide! Or maybe they were mad at me for interupting their romantic seaside date so they gave me the cold shoulder?

I was lucky to catch this old time car driving past a photo shop named Old Tyme Photo. I used a default filter in my editing program that is supposed to make the photo look like a 1960’s slide. I think the effect worked pretty well.

Finally a Springtime photo from me! This is a branch from a Forsythia bush in my yard. Behind it is a large rock if you are wondering what that is.

I am not sure what kind of plant this is but I took this photo in Maine a couple of weeks ago before any leaves had started to sprout.

This is the third photo in my Nubble Lighthouse series. Here is a closer look at Nubble Lighthouse showing all the buildings on the island.  The little red building in the front contains the emergency generator that powers the lighthouse light and foghorn in case the island loses power in a storm. I wanted to share a fun fact about the Nubble Lighthouse that I read on Wikipedia:

“The Voyager spacecraft, which carries photographs of Earth’s most prominent manmade structures and natural features should it fall into the hands of intelligent extraterrestrials, includes a photo of Nubble Light [along] with images of the Great Wall of China and the Taj Mahal.”

I just thought that was a pretty cool trivia tidbit!

This is the second photo in my Nubble Lighthouse series. Here is a closeup of the light tower on the Nubble Lighthouse converted to b&w. I decided to leave the light in color so it could be seen easier. One interesting thing I noticed  about the lighthouse is that it seems to be easier to see the light from afar then when close up. It must be designed that way I suppose.  Later I will post a photo of the lighthouse from much further away so you can see.

Taken the same day as my other “foggy” Maine shots. It was a cold March day but there were already surfers enjoying the waves! The fog and the black wetsuit combine to make the surfer look like a  shadow.

Ghost fishermen endlessly sailing in a dizzying sea of fog and shattered dreams. Cursed to eternally search for the “Big One” that got away.

This walkway and bouncy green suspension bridge lead to a cool little island with a nature preserve and trail to hike on. There was a surprising number of people out and about despite the foggy weather.

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,
But at every gust the dead leaves fall,
And the day is dark and dreary.

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.

Be still, sad heart! and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I thought this poem entitled “The Rainy Day” was perfect for this photo since Longfellow was from Maine and this shot I took of a sailboat moored in the fog was taken in Maine.

This past Saturday I went up to Maine. It ended up being a foggy day which sometimes puts a damper on taking photos. I personally like the atmosphere that fog creates though so I took advantage of the day. So I will be starting a series with some photos from this foggy day starting today.

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

-Bob Dylan

Pretty cool name for this fishing boat in Plymouth Harbor.

Photo taken inside a small gift shop in Plymouth MA.

I am not sure what these old looking buildings are in Plymouth. There are right near Plymouth rock so I assume they must be some sort of recreation of some old fashioned buildings? Anyways there was a big ugly red wastebasket that was between the two buildings so it took a little while to find an angle to shot this at that did not show the basket. But as you can see I eventually did find an angle that worked!

I decided to take a break with my Lensbaby lens for a bit and last weekend went out to Plymouth MA and took a bunch of photos with my other more “normal” lenses. Here is one of a firebox. You dont see these fireboxes as much anymore these days. I guess they are getting obsolete becuase of cell phones.

In ev’ry job that must be done
There is an element of fun
You find the fun and snap!
The job’s a game

And ev’ry task you undertake
Becomes a piece of cake
A lark! A spree! It’s very clear to see that

A Spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down-wown
The medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way

-Mary Poppins