Tag Archives: Old Orchard Beach
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 […]
Signs of our Times
Do they do any good? The rallies, the protests, the signs? Driving through North Conway, New Hampshire, I noted a demonstration against ICE (that’s US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), probably a protest over the recent shooting of an immigrant. Not the first time ICE has killed someone who had committed no crime. i thought about […]
Googin’s Rocks 2026
For some unknown reason having to do with algorithms and search engines, a lot of the people who discover this space do so though Googin’s Rocks. I have no idea why. but my previous posts of these outcrops in the Atlantic at Old Orchard Beach, Maine, are among the most viewed posts here. I didn’t […]
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 […]
Sunrise At Last
Some people sleep in on vacation. Not me. A good day is when I am up in time to see the sun rise over the Atlantic Ocean. On this year’s annual pilgrimage to Maine, it seemed that I wasn’t going to see a sunrise. Cloud and wildfire smoke seemed to limit the view every morning. […]
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