REPRIEVE

Yes, it's only January. But it seems so nice to have the temperature hovering near 60°, with a warm-ish wind. The grass is just waiting until it's a little warmer (unfortunately, it will probably have to suffer through more snow and below-zero weather before then) to start growing again, well in advance of the lawnmower tune-up. But we'll take it for now....

IT'S WINTER ALREADY!

Wow - I can't believe I've been so busy that I've neglected this blog big time! I was going to wait until the new year and start fresh, but there's no time like the present, so they say........

This is a shot I took from Baxter Boulevard in Portland around 7:00 this morning, in the aftermath of yesterday's snow storm:

We're supposed to get more snow tomorrow afternoon/evening, so we'll see if we can't come up with something even better!

FALLEN SOLDIER

I went for a walk on this warm, but dreary, day - and spied this leaf whose time has come, still upright in the grass, but soon to be snow-covered and forgotten:

FANTASY

Whew! Been busy.......but had time to play with one of my senior portraits:

MAINE WILDLIFE

Last weekend we went to the Wildlife Park in Gray, Maine. I hadn't been there in over 20 years, so it was nice to see that, despite the wildlife service's limited budget, the park was very nice. We saw bears:

...a lonesome coyote:

...and a tortoise (I've been informed that only the seagoing ones are turtles; the landlubbers are tortoises):

It's a fun place to take smaller children!