First Post of 2010

Congress St., Portland, ME on New Years Eve 2009...


I have created a FaceBook account this last year and have been posting many of the photos that I used to post here, there to share. I will see if there is a way that I can link these two accounts and will endeavor to use this space at least once a week this year to continue with the 6th year of my Photo A Week project. I was presented with a new Canon S90 camera for Yule and this camera allows me the mobility of a point and shoot and the quality of at least the first DSLR that I owned in 2002 so I should be able to be a bit more prolific in my personal photography than in the last few years where in order to photograph to the quality that I want, I had to carry an entire kit of my pro gear.

I hope that you all enjoy the very best of a full and simple life in 2010 and that it finds our world more Freedom and more Peace.

27th Beltaine at Popham, 2009

I've written a LOT about this annual event in the last several years which all may be read HERE, but if you'd just like to see the 80 or so photos that I made this year click the photo above. :)

Maine Maple Sunday 2009

I created a multimedia story about Maine Maple Sunday for this blog back in 2006, but this year we ate a nice breakfast and I only made photos. See them here:

The Miss Portland is re-Born!

Back in 2005 I blogged a post here about the Miss Portland Dinner being run down and closing her doors. This last summer, the Dinner was reborn just a few thousand feet down the street on Marginal Way from where she had thrived for so many years previously. She now sits with an expanded kitchen and dining room right next to the new Student Housing complex for my alma mater, the University of Southern Maine...

The new exterior...


The warm and inviting original dinning car...


Happy to report that the food and atmosphere is just as wonderful as it used to be.

Family Time

Mom's Birthday...






and Thanksgiving...

Pepere and Charlotte making some music...


A very long Turkey Day for Nana...


PWCA doing what the PWCA does...


The Boo following suit...

PAW 2008 - Sebago Lake

The several acres of cattails which grow near the boat landing on Sebago Lake in Raymond, Maine have always impressed me. The light and foliage with the cattails in the foreground on this day demanded that we stop and I make a photograph.