Brother and family from South Carolina were in town, so we took the ferry out to Peaks Island for lunch. That’s the mail boat and Little Diamond Island on the right.
Last experiments with the iPhone Plastic Rocket app for a while. This was taken where Deering Avenue meets Forest Avenue and Woodford Street. I may have been standing in the middle of the street, being a complete hazard, when I took this. C’est la vie!
Would it not be great if there were a light rail train running through Woodford’s Circle? Perhaps a stop on the left after Saunders Street across from Rite Aid.
Here are two more pics of Woodford’s: Looking down Woodford St. towards Back Cove, and looking north down Ocean Ave.
For me I think pictures taken around the house are a cop out. I want to get out and take pictures of the world! But Cousin John turned me on to Plastic Rocket, an iPhone app mimicking cheap plastic cameras, and I had to try it out. Today’s picture and tomorrow’s picture are my experiments with it, taken around the house (in the back yard, to be specific).
Pretty cool!
Eliphalet Clark was apparently one of the very earliest homeopathic physicians in the United States. Here’s one link.
This house, presumably where Dr Clark based his practice here in Portland, is in our neighborhood (Deering). I’ve often wondered about it.
Saw this amazing flower garden on the roof of the house’s porch on the walk home (in the rain) this evening.
We’re having one of our porch posts replaced in the next week or so, depending on the rain, and I’m now kind of thinking about having all four porch pillars rebuilt so as to support something like this.
(If this is your house… nicely done!)
Somewhat boring picture (hey! hey! it’s okay for me to say some pictures in the site are boring, and in fact I know which ones are the boring ones!) of Back Cove. Ah, well.
The weather was fantastic. The walk home around Baxter Boulevard was great. And you probably don’t want to see a picture I took of the house and its new bright yellow paint I took sitting in the back yard eating an apple afterwards, do you?
(That new paint looks great when the sun’s low!)
Portland’s fishing wharves along the Fore River are great places to take pictures.
This was of the wharf behind Becky’s Diner.
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens are fantastic! We’ve been two or three times in the past year. And I am not really interested in taking pictures of plants.
I don’t know what these plants are. We have them in the yard here too, and the neighbor and I used to cut them down to get to the grass they were growing out of, but when we realized how fantastic looking they were we gave up on the grass and let them grow.
We have a lot of Japanese Barberry in the yard, so I can’t say whether this is not an invasive plant species. I like Japanese Barberry too!
The railroad trestle over the Presumpscot River’s no longer used for rail traffic, but it was modified at some point with a grim looking (my opinion) pedestrian walk way.
