Gull on ice
Maine
Wood and ice float down river
Last week there was enough thawing on the Kennebec river in central Maine to break up the winter ice and expose the variety of wood trapped over the winter.
Ice jam on the Kennebec river
Ice bound mallards
A pair of mallards on the partially open Kennebec river this week
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.
john's f-stop 