Category Travel
Those Red Flowers
She noticed that as she was walking people were wearing a red flower. She mentioned it when we were watching a hockey game on television – all the hosts had the same red flower on their lapels. In Canada we don’t think about how what we do is different from what happens in much of […]
Fall Colors
It is that time of year when the leaves change from green to yellow and red. people come from Europe and farther to take in the fall colors in the Ottawa area (as well as elsewhere in Ontario, Quebec and norther New England). Maybe it was our wet summer, but it seems to me the […]
Throwback Thursday
While i give world news a chance to percolate a bit, I thought I would go back to this date in 2020 for something that is less likely to raise anyone’s blood pressure.
A Thousand Years Of Peace
With all the turmoil in the world, I thought perhaps revisiting a place of peace might be nice for all of us on this Sunday. This post first ran in 2015, and I have repeated it a couple of times since. Anything free when you are traveling is a good thing, given that travel can […]
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.
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