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On Saturday Lee and I took a fast trip to the Colby Museum in Waterville Maine and the sixth through the eighth images were taken there. The last images were taken at an iron bridge just off the street where the best bread in the State of Maine can be found, a small store called Universal Bread. If you are ever in Waterville stop by early, before one PM else there might not be any loaves left. The address is 19 Temple Street. Here is the baker's Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Universal-Bread-Bakers/1479879418900808
Have a listen as you look at the bread page above -
https://app.box.com/s/tim2uikiiiv2y7ago0qc
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On Saturday Spring leaped into sight for the first time this year and this man responded - winter's books on the ground and not on his feet.
Then Sunday arrived ......
Icebergs on the Penobscot River just north of Bangor.
No, this is not the arctic, just Maine in Spring only for a few months we hope.
Down the road from the icebergs we hit one of a bunch of snow squalls and stopped to take a few images of these horses waiting on a change in the weather.
The
snow squalls hit suddenly,
warnings were not considered in this fast
paced age;
such is the mindset of weather these days.
The
horses were both frisky and resigned,
moods shifting one second the next,
matching the sudden shifts
of the prevailing atmospheric winds.
And,
so it is with our internal weather systems,
sunny and warm in disposition one minute,
stormy, cold, wind blowing the next –
one's equanimity battered yet again.
Experience
tells us to buy and have on hand
all manner of storm protection – an umbrella
at least –
And
then, a beautiful Spring day arrives.
Winter's
sentries are sent home – furloughed,
until Mother Nature, still irate, is not
finished
with Her tirades for this Season …
Still,
I know, that even She will settle in after a while.
Bill Lagerstrom, 2015
Did you know that those from Maine who move to Florida for the Winter are referred to as 'Snowbacks ?" Well some snowbacks stay here all year as witnessed by the horse above. Soon the migration home to this Northern region will begin as the hordes of people for whom cold weather does not exist in their vocabulary return.
Groomed for Spring.
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Three from the Colby Museum -
Lee taking a photo. Wonderful light.
Artwork
Work that becomes Artwork
This image is for your thoughts.
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Some Spring Humor:
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Just something nice -
Peace until next post,
Bill Lagerstrom
