The good news is...

...that no one was hurt.

If the last act of my 12-year old Nissan Sentra is protecting my kids and a friend, then I can live with that. The ironic thing is that my daughter was pulling to the side of the road to let the windshield clear (sunlight on a still frosty windshield and a gray van parked in deep, early morning shadow do not make for a good scenario) when she hit the only vehicle on the street.

We were talking about retiring the car, anway, as it had reached the point where it needed more repairs to keep it on the road for another year than it was worth. The bad news is the accident accelerated the replacement process.

So, while I was out searching for a car to replace the Sentra, Jenny Why_Me and Judy traipsed off to Baxter State Park to take some late afternoon/evening pictures of Mt. Katahdin last Saturday before the snow cap could melt away completely. Had I not been in car search mode, it would have been nice to accompany them.

Guest photography below courtesy of Jenny Why_Me.






More photos from their afternoon are posted on facebook. I believe one has to be logged in to facebook in order to view them.

Here's the Public link.

Chasing Fog

I spent a couple of hours early this morning chasing fog around the Orono campus of the University of Maine.

Life has been happening, recently, so I haven't had the camera out much. Being "sort-of-spring" (there's melting, but not much is growing yet) where everything is still brown, there's not much I care to photograph. A foggy night helps, no matter what the season! It was wonderful to be able to spend some time taking photos and not having my fingers freeze!

Too much information? Or not enough?

A couple of photos from an afternoon stroll around Bangor recently.

Do we really want to know anything more?

Willie King (3/8/1943-3/8/2009)

It's been a wonderful couple of months for the Blues in Maine (as you can tell by some of my previous posts about gigs we've managed to catch). It's also been a sad week as a couple of excellent Bluesmen (see previous post about John Cephas) have passed on.

These photos of Willie King and the Liberators were taken at the 2006 National Folk Festival in Richmond, Virginia.

The Path is Clear...

Sort of...

Submitted to Unique's photo challenge for Path.

Dare you venture further...? Science may be happening!

Submitted to Shutterday's Science challenge.

Shemekia Copeland - The Strand - Rockland, Maine March 4th, 2009