From the archives: Crocus from our front yard, early spring, 2003.

Scanning Beth’s slides on the spiffy film scanner I bought last year. Found some pictures I like and so I’m sharing them.

Hiya. Read the explanation on yesterday’s daily photo for, well, an explanation about this (and yesterday’s) picture.

This past year I got a new slide and film scanner. Most of my pictures are on 35mm black-and-white film, if that were not already apparent. So, I’ve been going through and scanning and rescanning pictures.

I found that I’d already scanned these not unpleasant pictures of a hike I took up Pleasant Mountain one day. They’re pretty old.

The back story is that I was running a business I co-owned, and there was some stress related to it, and because I’m not one to blow my cool, or whatever, but because I let off steam in other, not negative and not counter-productive ways (like photography, and in this specific case hiking!), I took the day off, drove west and went for a hike.

That day I hiked up Pleasant Mountain, west of Portland, and a couple of other small peaks, including Mount Cutler, in Hiram, Maine. You (and I) can see Pleasant Mountain when driving west on 302 on the way to Montreal. In Denmark the Shawnee Peak ski resort climbs the mountain’s side.

I need to hike more!

Coffee By Design just redid the interior and the Congress Street facade to this store. It looks fantastic! This is the back door entrance.