Denmark Democratic Caucus, 2008

The Denmark Democrats Caucused at the town's wonderful library on the 9th of February. Obama 30, Clinton 23, Edwards 2, Gravel not even mentioned or brought up. Each of the two leading candidates will receive one of the Denmark Democrats two Delegates votes.

All in all a better turn out than the Republicans managed for a town with slightly fewer registered Democrats that Republicans. Of course, like most rural Maine towns, Denmark has more registered voters who are not affiliated with any party than we have Republicans, Greens and Democrats combined.
I was allowed to make photos before the actual voting took place. Click on the photo of Dick Hook (here making a successfully impassioned speech for Sen. Obama whose father Dick worked with abroad) to see the other photos...


I just LOVE the smell of participatory democracy and toll house cookies on a bad weather day!

My Artists

Had I mentioned that I have two brilliantly artistic daughters lately?

While Nick (10) continues to astound me with her graphics ability (which is far beyond my own), Beth (9) is starting to show much promise in 3 dimensional work...

(tux the Linux penguin)


(a random chicken)

Dr. Ron Paul Visits USM

Republican Presidential Candidate and Congressman Dr. Ron Paul gave a rousing speech today at the Hannaford Lecture Hall at the University of Southern Maine. To a crowd of hundreds, he espoused a nearly pure libertarian and Constitutionalist philosophy that I'm convinced our Nation is in dire need of re-acquiring at all strata, but more especially in the Executive Branch of our Federal Government. Time will tell if the American people agree with me or if they will continue to be scared into relinquishing even more of their Individual Liberty to the Corporations and Government for some small (ultimately false) sense of security.

If you'd like to see the rest of the photos I made for the campaign, just click on the thumbnail above and a new web gallery will open.

Our First Snowman of 2008

We built a snowman. The grrrls started with a good base...


We added a body...


and finished with a head and the trim...


A top hat to finish the job of course...


The way that the snow is still coming in, this probably won't be our last snowperson for the season.

Yule Tree 2007

Every year shortly after Thanksgiving, we head over to the Denmark Christmas Tree Plantation to let our Yule Tree choose us to take it home. Here are some shots of this year's tree...

This is the tree that wants to come home with us this year (the tall one.)


After our thanking the tree and my making a very quick cut at the base, Beth made a photo of Nick, Tracey and me carrying the tree back up the hill. (That's Pleasant Mountain in the background...Shawnee Peak Ski Resort is on the other side.)


In our living room all leveled and in its stand ready for decorating...


All decorated except the angel on top. The new LED lights are much less wasteful of electricity and much safer, but they throw a lot colder light than we are used to.

Thanksgiving 2007

Not a whole lot of photojournalism at the moment, but here are some clay sculptures that the grrrls made in the spirit of Thanksgiving (and our toasty new woodstove in the background!)...