A male downy woodpecker gets ready for Spring on a cold Saturday morning.
maine woods
Winter blues
Christmas day in central Maine, 2013; clear, cold, icy, and blue; today, “mother nature didn’t make it green but it is still the prettiest place I’ve ever seen ….”
Minor icing, really.
Log work
Culvert flow artform
Natural suds form patterns at the bog creek culvert.
Leaves a shadow
Sunset over the bog
Last week, during one of our routine patrols around the beaver bog; less and less light on each day after work now.
Evening calm
Unpredictable weather sometimes threatens our evening patrols through the woods; apprehension turns to calm if one remembers, “Mother nature made it green, the prettiest place you’ve ever seen ….”
Thank you, Stephen Stills.
Winter surprise at day’s end
On a late afternoon walk along a forest trail in Maine in January.
Madagascal tree
On a recent canoe trip on the Madagascal stream in central Maine, an old tree with character appeared as we paddled around a bend.
john's f-stop 
