A pair of lady slippers growing near the beaver bog last year during the few weeks in mid-May when these delicate and somewhat rare orchid family plants bloom.

The beaver bog is slowly approaching spring-time; there is no frozen water anymore and the snow is melting slowly. The opportunity for flooding along the outlet stream has greatly receded.

The vernal pool trail at the Smithfield Plantation conservation property in Maine.

A setting sun over Noank CT and the outer Mystic river; Poggy bay is in the foreground. That is a seal on the rock in the center.

This image is from a few days after the death of my father in early March 2010; this is a place he loved.

Looking at Noank CT and the Mystic R. from Mason Island; a photograph converted to faux-oil-painting by software

From an excursion around Sheepscot bay in 2009

An ageless home in Augusta Maine

The Kennebec Historical Society building in pastel manipulation of a digital photographic image.

The banner used in a recent exhibition at the Maine State Museum commemorating the closing of the last sardine factory in the U.S.

The term “ferris wheel” comes from George Washington Gale Ferris, jr; originally described as a “pleasure wheel,” the device became known as a Ferris Wheel from the one designed by Ferris at the Chicago Exposition – you can check this out on Wikipedia