A snow cover salt marsh in Bates-Morse Mountain Conservation Area in Phippsburg, Maine. Click on the image for a larger view.
Tag Archives: Winter in Maine
Winter in Moonlight, Part 3
Stepping out of the forest into a snow-covered field, space expands. The wind on your face creates the illusion of motion. Neither the sky nor horizon advances with your pace.
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Winter in Moonlight, Part 2
Traveling through the forest on a moonlit night, trees and shadows melt together. Perception of form becomes dreamlike, dissolving the boundary of real and imagined.
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Winter in Moonlight, Part 1
The full moon makes the winter night magical.
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Ice Storm, Part 7
Sunset over Dyer Long Pond in Lincoln County, Maine. Click on the image for a larger view.
Ice Storm, Part 6
Pleasant Pond in Kennebec County, Maine. Click on the image for a larger view.
Ice Storm, Part 5
The ice reaches deep into the forest, bending the trees and limbs into new structures. In the ice, the buds for next year’s flowers are visible. Click on the image for a larger view.
Ice Storm, Part 4
The goldenrod and blackberry canes in our field. Very different from the greens and golds of summer or the warmth of fall. Click on the image for a larger view.
Ice Storm, Part 3
The beauty of an ice storm is the ability to turn the forest to crystal. Click on the image for a larger view.
Ice Storm, Part 2
The ice storm last weekend knocked out power to over one hundred thousand people in Maine. We lost power from December 23rd until now. The trees that were gracefully arching over in our first post, were bent to the ground by the second day—the saplings in this photograph are the same trees, but I am unable to stand in the same place to photograph them. Click on the image to see a larger view.
