More formerly languishing, recently developed (see yesterday’s photo for the long explanation) color slide film from the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens and the trip we took there last spring.

Happy Labor Day everyone.

Photo Market, just down the street from us, started recently taking color transparency film (Kodak and Fuji chrome, or E-6) for processing. It’s mailed out and I believed processed by a lab in the Midwest.

The rolls I’ve had sitting around for awhile have finally come back, and it being Labor Day weekend, and the traditional end of summer, and because I’ve been painting and reinstalling a sink in the downstairs bathroom and doing things for some thing I’m not going to write about right now (some of you might know what that thing might be), I’m going to share some of the pictures I’ve gotten back over the next couple of days.

The first two aren’t from too long ago. They’re from a trip we took to the excellent Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay.

A picture from a part of Portland I’ve got some connections to: Munjoy Hill. When I moved to Portland from Chicago my wife and I lived on Munjoy Hill until we bought our house. So great working in the kitchen and looking on Casco Bay in that apartment! My first business had its offices on India Street, in the Grand Trunk Building, which looks vacant right now… and a surrounded by parking decks.

These “Open” signs were on Congress Street.

And… it’s First Friday, which means Art Walk! We won’t be showing photography at Yellahoose today. But get out, hurricane shmurricane, and look at art, buy stuff from local businesses and artists (or just window shop), eat at a local restaurant tonight!

This picture was taken underneath the Blue Line “L” tracks in Wicker Park. The Damen Ave. stop is at my back, and we’re looking towards the Division Ave. stop. The track goes underground before that stop.

When I lived in Chicago the shape of the Coyote Building in the sky, at North, Damen and Milwaukee Avenues in Wicker Park, was a good thing to see. It meant I had only a block or two more to walk before I was home.

Taken on the University of New England Portland campus.

More zombies in Boston!

The identical blonde twins are in the foreground having their picture taken by another zombie. One of the twins is making a scary hand gesture.

My sister and brother-and-law ran a 1/2 marathon in Massachusetts in June. They stayed with my aunt in Whitman the weekend of the race, and we met them for a day excursion in the North End at South Station.

There was a very large crowd of zombies outside the entrance to the station. I don’t know what was going on, but it was fun, and funny, and the zombies we’re happy enough to have their pictures taken – I didn’t get any weird looks, but hey, they’re zombies – so, weird looks…?