Heron visits Seal Beach

Where seals rest, herons hunt, and children play
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Supermoon - March 19, 2011

Tonight is the closest full moon of 2011.  Some are calling it a supermoon.  It is a perigee moon - when the moon is closest to the earth, so its gravitational pull is stronger.  And Saturn is visible in the eastern sky.  Great info at Earthsky.org


I rowed from our house to Friendship Harbor - leaving 1/2  hour before the morning high tide, the meadow at the edge of the river was flooded, and when I took James for a stroll on the same meadow in the evening the water had fallen 11 feet in six hours revealing a dramatically different landscape.  Those shots are HERE.

high tide - supermoon 2011

low tide six hours later - 11 feet lower

Stone's Point 2010

Ulysses, Jesse, Pascale, Olivia, Taisy, Georgia, Tasha, George, Marilyn, Sanaa, Muffy, Nancy, Whiskey, James, Annabel, Michael.    Image by John

George & Georgia

Dramatis personae:
George & Marilyn
Susan
Jesse, Pascale and Ulysses
Tasha, Michael, Annabel, Georgia
Muffy & Sanaa
Taisy
Crew: John
Canines: James, Whiskey, O' B
Cameo: Russ, Ellen, Henry, Jessica
Locations: Stones Point, St. George River, Cushing, Maine;Cushing Rd., Friendship, ME
July 23 - 31, 2010 Slideshow HERE

Mid-Coast Gothic

Pemaquid Oysters

Ulysses

Brooklin Maine - Wooden Boat Capital of the World

August - when Times reporters report from their vacation destinations on Cape Cod, the Elizabeth Islands, and the coast of Maine. This week it was Brooklin, Maine's turn. Center Harbor, Brooklin, Maine is a cove on Eggemoggin Reach and the Capital of wooden boat building.

The Times' Jim Norman contributes a terrific slide show HERE

There, where E.B. White escaped from the City you will find Wooden Boat magazine, Benjamin Mendlowitz of the Calendar of Wooden Boats, and the Wooden Boat School.

There you will find and boat builders inspired by Nathaniel Herreshoff's modern disciples like Joel White, whose son Steve continues the Brooklin Boat Yard builders of modern wood yachts like the W Class. You will also find craftsmen like Eric Dow, pictured above with a classic Herreshoff 12 1/2 - the boat that symbolizes the tradition which Brooklin preseves.

For people like me, who has wooden boat disease, Brooklin is a place to go on pilgrimage.

Images: Eric Dow, Center Harbor, map - Jim Norman - NY Times