A pair of mallards on the partially open Kennebec river this week
Ice bound mallards
Maine
Icebergs on the Kennebec river
Another look at Harry the woodpecker
Winter woodpecker
A hairy woodpecker pounds into a birch tree, sending parts of the tree into the air around it.
Pileated woodpecker on the side
Christmas trees
Every tree in my neighborhood is a Christmas tree, even the ones old and leaning.
Spruce down
Every visit into the nearby woods yields more scenes of big trees culled out of the ground by the strongest winds in decades.
Good morning first snow
The moon looks down on the first snow of the 2017-2018 winter.
More beaver work
With ice covering the entire bog, it is difficult to see where the beavers enter or exit the water to do their work, but their work effort is quite obvious.
Checkpoint Beaver
On our first visit down to the far bog in several weeks, we found the beavers have accelerated winter preparations. It looks like a race between the beavers and the snow mobile trail maintenance crew is in process.
john's f-stop 