Lovely selection of photos Moose. Makes me feel that I need to get out more.
Quite a crowded garden, both wild lite and objects.
/ johan
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On 12 okt 2010, at 06.27, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> [Well, I got a bit wordy. you can skip the story and go straight to the
> pics.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2010/Southern_Maine/One_Day>
>
> After a lovely visit with Mike & Marnie, we headed NW into Maine for our last
> three free days in New England.
>
> Monday - weather guessers are right, cloudy and definitely damp.
> Tuesday - The same except warmer and a bit muggy.
>
> Well that was OK. We'd been out a long time and a couple of slow days was not
> bad. We found things to do during the day
> and visited our hostess at night and another friend during the day. Still,
> total image count for two days, 36, only a
> handful worth the effort.
>
> Wednesday's forecast, more of the same. Separately, both of us were doing
> something those so inclined would call
> praying, others might call wishful thinking. We were doing something along
> the lines of "If it's no too much trouble,
> and doesn't interfere with other, bigger plans, it would be nice and we would
> really appreciate it if tomorrow were nice."
>
> Whether we had any impact or not, the weather guessers were wrong. Wednesday
> dawned clear and was beautiful all day. We
> took what is for us full advantage. We didn't arise particularly early, and
> took time for a nice breakfast. But then we
> went wandering, on foot and by car, keeping our intuition open, following our
> noses right until dark. We said thanks a lot!
>
> It turned into a magic day. It seemed wherever we went, we found great beauty
> to enjoy and for me to try to capture in
> images. I don't think any of the places we went are on anybody's list of
> scenic Maine places, but all were wonderful.
> Image count, just under 200, with at least several that seem like real
> winners to me.
>
> I've put a selection of them in series of gallery folders, starting here.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/NorthEast_2010/Southern_Maine/One_Day>
> If you want to see more than one gallery, just click"Previous" or "Next" in
> the upper right corner to go on to the
> gallery before or after the one you are in.
>
> I have my usual frustration with trying to get foliage to look good in web
> size images. Images that look just great
> large on the desktop screen either turn to mush or get too edgy smaller. Feh!
>
> Thursday? Off and on rain, a bit muggy. But it held off each time we needed
> it, as we dropped off a box of excess books
> at the post office, went in and out of the Art Museum in Portland and dropped
> our car at Logan. Just fine.
>
> Happy to travel, Happy to be home Moose
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