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Hunting Season Sucks

Posted on November 16, 2015 | 3 comments

Since we’re well into hunting season (I’m not a hunter, nor am I a supporter of sport hunting), it’s not really safe for me to go hiking at most of my favorite spots.  For some reason, hunting is allowed in my local state park and within 300 feet of the trails I hike.  So, instead of risking being shot in order to hike my favorite local trails (sometimes even wearing blaze orange from head to toe won’t help you), I’ll either have to be patient and wait out hunting season or go somewhere where hunting is prohibited.  The latter will be difficult as I mentioned.  There’s even a wildlife sanctuary where I tend to hike that allows hunting at this time of year.  How backwards is that?  Hunting in a wildlife sanctuary?  Not much of a “sanctuary” then, is it?

Anyway, to appease my readers looking for new photographs each week, I’ll leave you folks with a shot I took a while ago at Screw Auger Falls.  Enjoy.

Screw Auger Falls in Autumn

Until next time…

[-_-]

~A.M.

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Internet Snafu And Foliage Fail

Posted on November 9, 2015 | Leave a comment

 

 

Apologies for the lack of a blog post last Monday, folks.  I had some issues with my internet service.  [>_<]

 

Anyway, I went hiking a few weeks ago looking for some late blooming foliage but it seems I waited too long.  I expected the more sheltered trails (trails through deeper woods instead of along a road or the coastline) to still be vibrant.  I’m sure some were, but just not the one I chose.  Just my luck.

 

I went back to one of my favorites, my old stand-by, Quoddy.  Instead of hiking along the coastal trail, I chose to go through the inland trail and loop back on the coastal trail.  I was disappointed because all the trees except the pines were bare.  Though, my shots still looked “autumn-y” because of the settings I used on my camera.

 

Enjoy…

 

Quoddy Inland Trail 1

 

Quoddy Inland Trail 2

 

 

Until next time…

 

[-_-]

 

~A.M.

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Fall Colors

Posted on October 19, 2015 | Leave a comment

 

Last week, I went on a hike to check out the fall foliage.  Driving in the car, the leaves on the trees I passed were really bright so I figured they‘d be the same on the trail.  They weren‘t.  The foliage on the trail looked like it hadn‘t even begun to change.  There were a few trees here and there that were bright, but most were still green or a drab yellow.

 

There were a few trees around one of the ponds that caught my eye…

 

Fall Colors on Tunk 1

 

Hiking to the top of the mountain (Tunk, to be exact), I not only got to admire the beautiful view, but I found the foliage I was looking for…

 

Fall Colors on Tunk 2

 

Win.

 

 

Until next time…

 

[-_-]

 

~A.M.

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Tragedy

Posted on October 5, 2015 | Leave a comment

 

Greetings, folks. I’ve returned. I doubt many, if any, of you even noticed the absence of my weekly Monday blog posts. Those of you that did notice, congrats, you get a gold star for being observant.

 

I don’t want get into all the details as to why I went silent so suddenly, but I can tell you that it was due to a profound loss I and my family suffered the end of August (and if that wasn’t hard enough, that tragedy was followed by the loss of one of my cats two weeks later). I needed to take some time to…I don’t know… I was going to say “come to terms with it” but that hasn’t happened yet. I don’t think it’s going to happen for a while as it still doesn’t seem real.

 

But, you folks don’t read my blog to hear about my life or loss. You’re here for the photography, the stories about the photography, and maybe even the smatterings of humor (if you get my humor, or even call it “humor“) I inject into the posts. Well, there won’t be much humor for a while still, but I’m going to do my best to get back into the weekly routine of posting a new blog each Monday.

 

So, I’ll leave you folks with, literally, the last picture I took before tragedy struck.

 

Have a good week.

 

 

Birch Point Trail

 

 

 

Until next time…

 

[-_-,]

 

~A.M.

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Not A Botanist

Posted on August 3, 2015 | Leave a comment

 

“Damn it, I’m a photographer, not a botanist!”  Which is why I can’t identify half the plants, shrubs, and flowers I see while hiking.  I can tell the difference between deciduous and coniferous trees and I can identify things like daisies, buttercups, irises, lilacs, Lotus blossoms, etc., but  beyond what’s common knowledge, I’m typically lost.

 

So, when I came across this in a marshy area of the trail I was hiking one day, I had no idea what it was.  But while hiking another trail on another day, I came across an information plaque that labeled this a “Pitcher Plant.”

 

Strange Plant

 

And here’s the underside…. Odd…

 

Strange Plant (underside)

 

 

 

Until next time…

 

[^_^]

 

~A.M.

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