Category Travel
Lighting Up The Sky
Thursday nights in the summer the fireworks explode over Old Orchard Beach Pier. The weekly display draws tourists, who spend money. I don’t always manage to get there when I am visiting – family, friends and weather can all be contributing factors as to whether I make the trek down the beach from where I […]
Wagging The Dog
There will be fireworks beside the pier in Old Orchard Beach tonight. Despite the police chief’s objections. The Thursday night fireworks have been at 9:45 for decades. I seem to remember them being at 9:30 when I was younger, but my memory for such things isn’t guaranteed. Earlier this summer they were moved to 9. […]
Images At Sunrise
Some people sleep in when they are on vacation. Not me. I have always been an early riser. That made m a natural for morning radio – I was awake already at the early hour required. it has been 20 years since I did morning radio, but I am still awake before five most mornings. […]
Looking At The Moon
No not that moon. This one. Walking along Old Orchard Beach at dawn earlier this month, I noted a number of snails and snail shells. I suppose that is not unusual, but it seemed to me to be more of the one type than I remember from previous visits. Looking it up, i discovered that […]
More Driftwood
I love walking on the beach early in the morning before the crowds arrive. usually it is just an expanse of sand, but sometimes the waves bring in some interesting wooden shapes.
Drifting In
Like sand dollars and sea glass, chunks of driftwood on the beach in Maine are a lot rarer than in my childhood. I saw these ones in July – probably more in one day than in the past three or four summers combined.
New Warning
This was a new one for me. I can’t decide if it is overkill or necessary. In almost seven decades of summertime visits to Old Orchard Beach, I don’t recall seeing this one before. Admittedly the technology to deliver weather warnings to my phone didn’t exist for most of that time. For that matter, neither […]
Hidden Ruins
My wife knew they were there, but these ruins were in a part of Ottawa I don’t frequent often. Calling them ruins isn’t technically correct wither. More like public art. The columns are technically ruins, having come from Ottawa’s Carnegie Library, built in 1906. When the library was demolished in the 1970s the columns were […]
Live and Learn
I think it was on the third page I grabbed my phone saying, “this can’t be real.” But it is. The title over the novel isn’t important. I haven’t finished it yet, and haven’t decided if I would recommend it. What sent me looking for confirmation was the idea of a paternoster elevator. My guess […]
My Favorite Crucifix
How is it possible to believe, how can anyone believe without fear and trembling that all of God was present in a man? Who can believe that God incarnate is dying on a cross? No reasonable being can accept such an implausible and frightening revelation, the impact of which always makes one reassess everything. – Jacques […]
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