The winter forest in moonlight. Click on the image for a larger view.
Tag Archives: Winter in Maine
Snow Day
Our forest in Maine on a snow day. The beech tree is remarkable in that it does not lose its foliage until the next spring with the growth of the new. Click on the image for a larger view.
Winter Seas, Part 1
In winter, the air is so cold everything seems brittle and sharp. Click on the image for a larger view.
The Speeding Earth
The author Chet Raymo in his book The Soul of the Night describes the motion of a child as she is knocked into the air by a collision with a skateboarder:
During the time the child was in the air, the spinning Earth carried her half a mile to the east. The motion of the Earth around the sun carried her back again forty miles westward. The drift of the solar system among the stars of the Milky Way bore her silently twenty miles toward the star Vega. The turning pinwheel of the Milky Way Galaxy carried her 300 miles in a great circle about the galactic center. After that huge flight through space she hit the ground and bounced like a rubber ball.
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Silence
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Tracks
When taking Hikari out at night, we mostly hear the wind in the trees. Most animals keep a distance from the house because of our dog. So it is always a surprise to hear the sound of a large mammal being startled, as happened the other night. The next day, not only we found evidence of the animal, but also of its other two companions. We often see small herds of deer this time of year, but they usually avoid the area around our house. Click on the image for a larger view.
Sea, Surf, and Sky
Water breaking on the rocks at high tide on the other side of Jaquish Gut from Bailey Island. Click on the image for a larger view.
April Fools Day, 2017
When we woke on April 1st, we knew the joke was going to be on us. We received another 5″ of snow. However, Sunday would make up for this set back, it was sunny and 50°F. Click on the image for a larger view out of our bedroom window.
Frozen
Pleasant Pond, ME. Click on the image for a larger view.
Ice
Pleasant Pond, ME. Click on the image for a larger view.
