Fessenden Part II

Our rugged hiker Nicole...


and her equally stalwart sister Beth...



WAY back in 1789 a Federal Style house was built on our land and another just across the street a year or so previous. Here, you can see the evidence of where those intrepid settlers split the massive granite slabs for the foundations to those first two homes in Denmark (the neighboring house still stands, ours burned in 1995) from right here on top of the mountain upon which they were built. Having moved some very small bricks of granite several hundred yards last fall, it boggles my mind at how much labor it must have taken to move these stones down over the mountain without destroying the sticks of granite or killing anyone in the process. The slabs that held up our foundation were several tonnes each.


Some neighbor of our who comes up here must also share my love for small stone shrines tucked away in remote places that are thriving with palpable spirits of place.


This last shot is the view from the other side of the mountain that we've been enjoying for years. Though you can't really see a whole lot of civilisation out there, this looks out to the north and west over the towns of Denmark and Brownfield, Maine and further into New Hampshire.

PAW 2006 - Wk 13 - Maine Maple Sunday

maple sugar treats
abound in early April
much to our delight

If you click on the above photograph, a small flash gallery will open up (takes a minute to load all of the images) of several of the photos that I made at the Weston Family Farm Stand in Fryeburg on the 26th of March for this year's Maine Maple Sunday celebrations. If you choose that presentation, simply close the window when you are done and you will return here.

If you would like a more multi-media presentation, I've created a streaming video presentation and linked it HERE. (This project hosted via YouTube.com so we're at the mercy of their bandwidth. If the video doesn't load from my site, please try viewing it directly on their site HERE.)

This is my very first attempt at creating a slide presentation with ambient audio recorded on location and with soundtrack and voiceover audio recorded and edited in my home 'studio.' I'm sure that given time, I'll get better at this new menium, but I'm having fun and hope you enjoy it regardless. :)

Rainbow

just a cool rainbow
that we saw headed in town
to see battlefield


Battlefield Band played an excellent gig at the Chocolate Church in Bath.

PAW 2006 - Wk 12 - Breakup

most snow has melted
this last ice gurgles away
bring on the wet MUD!

PAW 2006 - Wk #11 - Cats

This is our Keiko napping...


Let sleeping cats lie
They spend most of their lives thus
living through their dreams

My friends Kevin and Shannon's cat Duncan likes to cover up when he sleeps...

PAW 2006 - Wk #10 - Frost Heaves

frost heaves jar your bones
they are a Maine Fact Of Life
the roads calm down soon.

These signs start cropping up all over town in rural Maine this time of year. With the drastic swings in temperatures that we experience in the Spring, the Earth buckles underneath the tar roads and causes upheavals called Frost Heaves. These signs are supposed to warn motorists that the road is bad and that they should slow down. Of course, we've got so many frost heaves in 'Main St.' that this is how you usually see the sign as you are driving by...



UPDATE: More On Frost Heaves.