The Desert of Maine provides an interesting historical and geological lesson about Maine. Plus, kids can hunt for gemstones at the end of the tour!

Taken from Flatbread’s “holding pen” on deck for people waiting to eat.

(Flatbread’s got good pizza — I mean that!)

This was taken in same series of brownfield pictures I did behind Morrill’s Corner.

Morrill’s is notorious, I suppose, for it’s traffic bottleneck, especially after 4 PM when a freight train usually cuts off traffic at Forest Ave. Walton St. and Allen Ave. for 10-15 minutes. People want to speed to/from Windham and other towns off of Route 302. It would be nicer if there were a plan to do a kind of small town center at Morrill’s. Granted, that would do much for the traffic here.

There are big warehouse spaces, looks to me like they’re underused if used at all, off Read Street.

There was to be a Stop & Shop and condo development at Morrill’s, off Allen Avenue. But my understand was that Stop & Shop had pulled out of the state. If anyone knows more about this project, email.

Concord and Nevens Streets behind Woodford’s Corner.

This picture was taken in brownfield land behind Morrill’s Corner.

Woodford and Beacon Streets, just up the road from Woodford’s Corner.

Taken on Morrill Street off of Forest Avenue.

Nice, hot summer day when this was taken. I’d spent much of it on the roof painting the dormer. Nice view up there! Definitely need a rooftop deck!

Anyway, the folks behind this sign (I don’t mean that literally), our neighbors, were moving. So “Moving Sale” might have been more accurate. I believe he ran a little business buying, fixing up, and then selling older luxury automobiles.

When this picture was taken there happened to be no cars parked on the street. Throughout the day, though, a lot of people saw the sign, parked, looked at the dork with the iPhone and paint bucket on the roof of the golden-colored house, and walked over to find a bargain.

Nice, hot summer day…

This will be the last ShakeItPhoto pics for a while.

Another ShakeItPhoto picture, again from alley behind the Congress Building. Lots of subject matter back there!