A blue jay on a hemlock branch in our back yard. Last night brought a dusting of snow.
White Pines in Snow
Young white pines with a fresh coat of snow. Winter’s just around the corner here in Maine, and hopefully we’ll get more snow than last year.
White Water
White water at the Cribworks on the West Branch of the Penobscot River in the Maine woods.
Surf at Otter Cliffs
Ever since I was a small kid I’ve always been fascinated by moving water — whether it’s a waterfall in a mountain stream or crashing surf at the coast. This surf is just below Otter Cliffs in Acadia National Park.
Hooded Mergansers
Male (left) and female (right) hooded mergansers. Hooded mergansers are the smallest of the three merganser species found in North America. They specialize in eating fish, and dive and swim underwater to catch their food by sight.
Check out the Audubon North American Birds for more on hooded mergansers.
Birch Bark
Peeling birch bark makes for an interesting study of color and texture — and in my own back yard!
Katahdin Sunrise
Mount Katahdin is reflected in Kidney Pond early one morning in Maine’s Baxter State Park.
Painted Turtle
This painted turtle was sunning itself on a log in a back channel of Damariscotta Lake in Jefferson, Maine.
Bubble Pond
A skeleton-esque tree on the shoreline of Bubble Pond in Acadia National Park after all the leaves have fallen.
Acadia Surf
A foggy June morning on Sand Beach in Acadia National Park. Fog always adds a nice multi-layered effect to the landscape. At a place like Acadia, it also has a tendency to keep the crowds down. For some reason, many tourists don’t like foggy days because they can’t see anything. I like the fog, and the effect that it creates is pretty neat to look at. 🙂
light on the trail 