Sep

26

What a trip.

One word: Wow. I didn’t expect the Maine/NY trip to impact me in the way it did. However, “blown away” is not inaccurate. From nearly every part of Maine, which I’ve missed more than I realized, to long-lost friends and family — whose lives are well beyond what I expected — the past month or [...]

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Sep

13

Dobbs Ferry Festa

Wasn’t sure what to expect from an overnight in Dobbs Ferry, New York. What I got was fantastic — not only a great place (including wireless internet), courtesy of a longtime family friend, but a today-only street fair to boot. Once again in the right place at the right time. Further, not twenty minutes into [...]

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Sep

10

Last Post from Maine

Hard to believe, but I’ve been here for almost two weeks. One the one hand, I’m eager to get back to Macon. I miss my kids cats, my community, and my home. On the other, being here has been pretty magical. Take this photograph from a just-after-tropical-storm coastline, for instance: Post-Storm Surf Right place, right [...]

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Sep

06

Surly Bliss

Updated. One of the other Maine posts has been updated, too — please continue to scroll down. Thanks. Taking a break from photography tonight; tropical storm Hanna is also visiting Maine this weekend, and I’m stuck indoors. Which means an opportunity to sort through the more than seventeen hundred shots taken so far. (Damn, that’s [...]

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Sep

02

UMaine and Orono

Started my trip down memory lane today, leaving Ogunquit, in the far southern part of the state, for where I went to college: the University of Maine, in Orono. The UMaine campus is just north of Bangor, the last so-called “big” city before you head into the North Maine Woods — approx. 150,000 in the [...]

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