https://npcobserver.com/2018/02/25/translation-communist-partys-proposals-for-amending-the-p-r-c-constitution-2018/

Life on an Island: Silence, Beauty and a Long Wait for the Ferry - The New York Times

Life on an Island: Silence, Beauty and a Long Wait for the Ferry - The New York Times

by Katherine Q. Seelye

MATINICUS, Me. — The snow had begun falling overnight, and fell throughout the day, draping the towering pines and the lobster traps, stacked up on land for the winter, in blankets of white.

Still, Sharon Daley, a nurse from the visiting vessel Sunbeam, which provides medical care to remote islands off the coast of Maine, made her appointed rounds. She forged a path in knee-high rubber boots to the home of Bill Hoadley, who is, at 80, this island’s oldest resident.

She checked his blood pressure, which she pronounced “so good, it’s boring.” She listened to his heart, which was ticking just fine, almost in rhythm with his many clocks. Mr. Hoadley is something of a clock aficionado, and he keeps his timepieces on daylight saving time, which in winter is an hour ahead of everyone else.

Why?

“Because I can,” the impish Mr. Hoadley declared from his nautically themed front parlor.

Being able to do exactly as he pleases — and have health care come to him — are big reasons Mr. Hoadley stays here, 22 miles out in the North Atlantic.***

Presidents Day Weekend 2018

Jim Bridwell Yosemite Legend is Dead at 73

Jim Bridwell, Mountaineering Maverick, Is Dead at 73 https://nyti.ms/2Bykz0V

Twins

Alan Hollinghurst, the British novelist, describes the progress of a skiff through an estuary like ours "Observe the progress of a skiff through an estuary, the “million-sided sunlight on water green as the woods above, a dazzle over weeded rocks, sudden dark drops below.”

The National - Mistaken for Strangers

Supermoon eclipse over Manhattan

Slipping and sliding

January thaw. Kids come out to play.

Issuma in Newfoundland

One thing or another has gotten in my way; so I haven't kept up with Richard Hudson's voyages on ISSUMA.  As is his wont Richard headed for high latitudes, often with ice in the environs.  The boat is wintering in Newfoundland while Richard appears to be based in his native Toronto.  So here are some shots.

Fishing Boat trailed by gulls

Trawler

Cox's Cove, not far from the French Islands of St. Pierre and Micquelon

Flowers Cove near the Strait of Belle Isle

Oops - remember to tie down your house

Mandatory fog and lighthouse shot

Birdland