Day 4 Project 365

Mom and Dad took the train this year when they visited us for Christmas.  We took them to the train station in Boston on Saturday for their ride home to Virginia.  It's always hard to say good-bye to them, but it was far easier to put them on a train than to see them pull out of our driveway knowing they had two days' worth of driving ahead of them.

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Dad bought an old Erector set off ebay year before last and brought it up for Jed last Christmas.  I'm afraid Erector sets are not my thing, and it sat waiting for Dad to come back and help.  We got it out this Christmas and he and Jed built this bridge crane.  You wouldn't believe how many hours went into this creation!  And I'd be hard pressed to tell which one enjoyed it more.  :)

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Two of my favorite ornaments, made by my two favorite boys, exactly 20 years apart.

Day 1 Project 365

I can see from how things have changed at Blogger that it's been a while since I last posted.  

I had a hard time getting settled after this last move, and then school started and things have been a whirlwind ever since.

I'm going to try the Project 365 again, because I love the idea, even if I have yet to complete an entire cycle.  So without further ado, I give you the fallout from our annual New Year's Day parade.

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I could have sworn I saw Charlotte in this barn web.

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A pastoral scene in rural Maine.

click on the pic for a better look

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These photos were taken the same day as the ones in yesterday's post.

The gulls were hanging around the St George's River in Warren in late May because the alewives were running. It was fascinating to stand on the bridge and watch the masses of fish swimming upstream. The gulls were pretty interested in them too. :) This particular gull was actually dive-bombing the water to catch a fish. He would fly up to get some height, then turn beak down and fly straight down into the water. It was incredible! I wish I had gotten a better picture of it, but you can get a better look at him by clicking on the picture to see him coming up out of the water, sans fish. :)

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If you look at these pics in clockwise order, starting at the top left, you'll see what looks like concern on the part of a gull in the group for the loner on the rail behind him.

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The
process
to get from
this
to
that
is fascinating.

Happy Fourth!

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I know it's been a while since I last posted - this is the first time since the move.

I was going to try to go slow with the unpacking this time; I should have known I couldn't pull that off. So now all the boxes are unpacked and I'm down to the last few things to put away.

It looks like my Project 365 will have to move to the back burner, but I would like to share a picture now and then.

These seemed like good ones to start with...the sunset over the lake behind our house was glorious last night.

We're on a lake! Come visit!! :)

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This is what I've been busy doing.
















And this.

Packing to move, and skin cancer surgery.
It's been quite a month.

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Mother Goose has been busier than I first realized!
Maybe the third adult really was her mother-in-law
come to help with all those babies. :)

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We have goslings!
They're hard to see, but there are two little black
and yellow fuzzballs pecking at the ground while
their parents stand guard at the water's edge.
*click on the picture to enlarge it*

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Super moon rising.
The trees in our backyard are so tall,
it's going to be a while before the moon
rises above them for a clearer shot,
and I might be asleep by then. :)

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It's too early to set flowers outside yet,
but I'll gladly enjoy these beauties inside for a while longer.

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Back at the beginning of February, I put this sewing table (sans sewing machine) in the corner of the living room where the Christmas tree had stood for 2 glorious months.

At that time, I placed a small Swedish ivy plant nestled in a large pot on the table, but it looked so skimpy that I added another smaller pot of Swedish ivy. I was delighted with the lushness of the two plants just six weeks later as they soaked in some (freakishly) early spring sunshine.

I'm now convinced the plant in the original large pot is some kind of mutant vegetation, as evidenced in the picture above, taken a mere five weeks later. I had to remove the smaller pot as the larger plant grew exponentially, and now it's about to take over the entire table. This, in spite of the fact that our (freakishly) early spring sunshine vanished after just a few days and we've been back in the doldrums of a (sadly) normal Maine spring ever since.

After I do some pruning I'll have an abundance of Swedish ivy rootings if anyone is interested. :)

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My May Day was spent sitting in front of this.















With these people.

Not exactly spring-like, but I would take a cozy fire
and creamed chipped beef with homemade waffles
over spring any day of the week. :)

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I ran across the funniest thing today -
memes of Ryan Gosling getting in touch with his feminine side.
Thought I would share so my talented artistic friends can read
and dream along with me. :)

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It's been a couple of weeks since I saw the geese on our pond and I had assumed their nest had failed
for some reason and they had moved on, so I was thrilled to see them again today swimming about near
our bench. The odd thing, though, is there were three adults. It's always been just a couple, so I'm not
sure what this means.

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I've had a cough for three months now.
It's go time.

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I own an Apple product.
I'm a full-fledged member of the 21st century.
Finally. :)

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Two days in a row of not taking a picture.
*sigh*

However, I took one on Friday at the
Osborn Finch Wilderness Sanctuary which I didn't post on Friday,
so up it goes today.
It's the Medomak River, which runs through the preserve.

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Today's post isn't a photograph; in fact, you can't see anything at all on the video since I filmed it tonight.
But the sound of a hundred spring peepers is worth more than all the photographs I'll take this year.

Be sure to get rid of the music so you can hear the peeps!
First, scroll down to the music player at the bottom of this screen
Then click on the very large button on the left with the two vertical dashes
Then come back up here to the video and click on the triangle at the bottom left

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Letterboxing at the Osborn Finch Wildlife Sanctuary

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The only thing worse than my photography skills are my cooking skills,
especially when it comes to experimentation.
My attempts at throwing things together have never been very successful...
until tonight!
This dish was actually not half bad. :)

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This is the best picture I took today.
Actually, it's the only picture I took today.
Actually, I took it five minutes ago.
Which begs the question -
is a post with a bad picture better than no post at all?

It's a rhetorical question, of course. :)

And the sunset was as awesome as this picture is bad!

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My dad's hobby is bargain hunting.
There aren't too many bargains that can equal candy sales one day after the holiday.
So we get to celebrate holidays twice around here -
once for real, and the second time around a couple of weeks later,
courtesy of Grandpa.

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Another lovely gift from our friends in Paraguay!
Though the best gift would be to see their smiling faces.

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Our first paddle of the year, searching for signs of spring.

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Abstract art at the Atlantic.

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That's my son, the one in the middle.
He's a class act, all the way. :)















Speaking of class,
I taught a science class with our homeschool group today.
Jed was enjoying being the class clown,
trying to fake me out on one of the experiments.

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I'm doing some science experiments for our homeschool group tomorrow.
I'd rather be teaching grammar, but so far no one's asked me to do so. :D