St Michaels, MD

The Maritime Museum at St. Michael's, MD. is awesome with many fascinating exhibits, including boats and lighthouses to wander through. This is a collection of old oyster meat cans, part of an exhibit including an old skipjack oyster fishing boat completely outfitted with all the tools and equipment the fishermen used.

Lancaster, PA

Today we drove behind Amish buggies down the main streets and rural roads too. ~N

Ho-Ho-Vermont

In Brattleboro Vermont we walked down the main street looking in the store windows. ~B

Rockland, Maine

Downtown Rockland has a fun light house museum with a large collection of lights of various sizes. The sign said *Do Not Touch* but I was able to lower my wide angle into one and blindly snap this photo. ~N

Blue Hill, Maine

All the creeks and little ponds are freezing over here. The noise of cracking ice is in the air. ~N

Almost Ooooops!!!

The hot water heater tank was damp - with a puddle on the top of the tank. Corroded fittings were leaking and some unidentifiable parts seemed nearly gone.The overly high water pressure in the pipes didn't help. The pressure regulator was not working. Why? We replaced it and the corroded gate valve next to it. The gate valve was 'rotten' and could have broken. It was really no longer a valve because it couldn't be turned.

Now, 3 1/2 hours later, things look much better. The top of the new water heater looks like this:And we have a new pressure regulator and an easy to reach, proper valve (yellow handle) just outside the house that can be used to turn off the water in an emergency. ~B

Cold Graffiti - Yarmouth, Maine

An Eskimo with a spear, (a toddler crawling behind him?), an igloo, 10 dogs hitched to a sled and another dog (labeled) bringing up the rear - all drawn on a white washed wall of a ferry landing hut at the end of a tiny dock on Cousin's Island near Yarmouth. ~N

The Sign of an Empty Mind?

I've heard that "a clean desk is the sign of a cluttered mind". Down the hall was an open door. I feared to enter, suspecting booby traps or even that my shots might not be up to date. ~B

Eartha in Yarmouth, Maine

Eartha is the world's largest rotating and revolving globe with a diameter of over 41 feet. It's located in Yarmouth, Maine at the DeLorme map company headquarters. ~N

Work Ethic

In Eastport, Maine, in front of a brightly painted house, someone made the extra effort to be creative. The split firewood could have been stacked in neat, orderly, but plain rows. But this stack was interwoven with pieces of wood to make it look as if the logs had been stacked within the branches of a tree. ~ B

Blue Berry Land - Jonesport, Maine

Up the coast a piece in Maine, where lobster rules supreme - we also found blue berry fields . . . and then we drove by Blue Berry Land on Hiway #1 - *Closed for the Season*, like most places in this state it seems . . . I'm almost sad I didn't get to experience their "Unique Blue Berry Gift Shoppee". ~N