Wyatt turns 1!

My sister's boy Wyatt, the only baby grandSON, turned a year old on the 23rd of May.
There was a party. He seems to have had fun and enjoyed his cupcake.

Some Houses

Playing with the new Nikon D60 and shooting some houses that I've always thought were unique...

This vitorian is right on the main drag in the center of No. Conway, NH. Very pretty in the spring.


This one is right near where Rt. 35 and Rt. 114 intersect in Standish. Hyper-Patriotism at its finest! (To keep with the Memorial Day theme.)

Maple in Spring

The last few years I've been making photographs of the maple at the top of the hill at various turns of the seasons. This is my latest shot of it in Spring all newly budded...

26th Popham Beach Beltaine!

Once again it was time to gather at Popham Beach State Park to celebrate our community (somehow) maintaining our sanity through the long dark VERY snowy winter.

This year Beltaine too was cold, windy and it rained on us and the mighty Atlantic has changed Popham Beach drastically from last year, but the 100 or so folks who showed up braved the weather, no access to Fox island, the smaller beach and eroded dunes and we all had much fun and great food anyhow.

I've a more complete photo essay of the day that you can check out by clicking on this first photo of the May Pole, but if you are bandwidth deprived, here are my four favourite photos from the day:

The larger of our two Maypoles this year (...click on this to get to the photo essay.)


Happy drummer and dancing daughter in the GROOVE!


With this third win in a row, Lestat of Clan Samhain Dell is now Thrice Fleet of Foot and Beloved of Pan.


Victorious runner of the under 13 class receives his Necklace of Honour.

SPRING!!!

On the way home from the 26th Annual Beltaine Celebration at the Beach this afternoon (next post), I saw this beautiful tree in full bloom in Portland near the Whole Foods Market and had to stop and smell the flowers (and make a few photos)...





While we may still yet see some real snow (it was spitting snow at the beach with the cold rain), the blooms whispered to me that Spring has finally arrived in Maine!

Our Walks and Talks

We've all been trying to walk the two miles out the road and back every day for the last few weeks while the weather is ok and the bugs aren't out bad yet. It has been fun. For Earthday we picked up all the cans and trash that somehow find their way onto our backwoods road.



We also got to go to Seanachie Night at Bull Feeny's Pub in Portland the other night to hear some tails of Celtic heritage (after a nice meal.) Seanachie are basically Irish Bards. It was well done.