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The new holiday that was said to replace Christmas as the favorite among those under thirty is Halloween. I decided that instead of dressing up as a zombie, or as a research bureaucrat in non public service I would instead decorate my favorite cemetery for the occasion. I walk here three to four times a week as it is around a half mile from where we live, which gives me some sort of an edge on knowledge of the afterlife that runs rampant every October 30th. My continuing education program - there are a few teachers buried there which gives us a chance to converse regularly.
Here is my halloween photographic effort:
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I track the seas off midcoast Maine to see when a storm brings waves of a respectable height to make the sixty mile trip really worthwhile. Lee and I are in Acadia frequently as witnessed by the photos on this site since its conception, so the drive is not a big deal. The National Weather Service showed waves of fifteen plus feet so off I went to Schoodic Point which is a peninsula just North of Acadia and is a part of the National Park that is well exposed to the ocean thereby offering good wave watching for the intrepid. Schoodic adds around thirty miles to the trip and it is a really delightful part of the coast showing what Maine looked like before far too many houses were built on the seaward side of the State.
Here are a few of the photos taken yesterday.
Waves fifteen feet, wind 35-40 miles in speed, heavy rain and spray and a Laughing Gull weighing around a pound and a half has no real problems with the ongoing search of food. In the center a Herring Gull drops down to see if something is edible.
A point on the Schoodic peninsula
Unbothered by the storm seven to eight Eider Ducks and a gull are the dark specks in the photo's center. The adaptation of birds and mammels to live in the ocean is a wonder to me as to how such a light, fragile creature can survive in these conditions. Yet, there are hundreds of millions of seabirds making a living in the open ocean all around the world.
Taken yesterday, a woods scene in a windy overcast storm sky.
The last yellow colors of Fall, Schoodic Point.
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Some humor: What we may have come to in the information age ...
No Blog next week as I will be traveling.
Peace, Bill Lagerstrom
