Mainelife...thru the eyes of someone from away

Oh My

You must go see what Marie can do with a circular polarizer.

An Unusual Collection of Photographs

.....from The New York Nerd.  I think a couple of these are photoshopped, but most of them appear to be real.  And very cool. 

Museum Hours

A wonderful collection of photos of New York Museums. 

Photo of The Year

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

I found this photo of a pride of lions feeding on a wildebeest in this month's National Geographic and I've been unable to stop looking at it.  Every so often, I pick up that glossy  magazine printed in 5 color ink (yup, the use an extra black ink to make the photos really pop--and there's only one press in America that can print the magazine) and take another look at it.  I thought you might enjoy it as well and I found it on-line......so, in violation of most copyright laws, I bring it to you.  Isn't it amazing?  It makes me want to be in the Mara right now.

The shot was taken by Michel Deni-Huot in the Masai Mara Game Preserve.  The original and more wonderful photos can be found in the Visions of the Earth Photo Gallery. 

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The Disappearing Ohio Countryside

Photo taken last week, edited in Photoshop.

We're Not the Only Ones Who Are Ready for Spring

In Ohio, even  the snowmen are tired of winter. 

Cape Neddick River

Gray Start to the Day

The storm sitting off the coast has made the seas rough and the surfers happy, but as Boston gets ready to commemorate the 30th Anniversary of a HUGE Weather event, our forecast looks mild and calm for the next 10 days, thankfully.

Channel 5 (ABC) in Boston is running a special on the Blizzard of 1978.  It airs this Thursday at 7 pm.  The WCVB website also has a slide show of photos from the storm, and  Boston.com is asking for readers to contribute memories of the storm. I don't have memories of this specific storm to send in, but I do very clearly remember the "Winter of 1978" in Ohio. Strangely enough, we had our own Blizzard to contend with that year.

The Northeastern Blizzard of 1978 occurred on February 5th, while the Great Blizzard of 1978 happened  in the Ohio Valley and up through the Great Lakes on January 26th.  It's been called the White Hurricane partially because the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in Ohio occurred as the storm passed over Cleveland--958 millibars, which is lower than the Barometric Pressure(972 millibars) in the 1991 Halloween Nor'easter (which I also had the ahem privilege to experience). 

It was my freshman year of high school and  we went to school exactly 4 days in the month of January and 10 days in February.    A combination of fuel scarcity/prices and bad weather (snow, freezing temperatures) kept us home and in front of the wood stove.  Basketball season was canceled for the Freshman Girls' Team and my indoor tennis team disbanded until April.  The morning after the blizzard, we literally dug a tunnel out the back door to the wood pile so that we could get wood for the stove.    

A neighbor took my dad to the grocery store on a snow mobile the night after the blizzard to get necessities, but  many days that January/February we walked to the store pulling a sled and hauled the groceries home.  Our one car was often plowed in or the roads were often impassible.    I read every book in the house--including my sister's Partridge Family mysteries and my brother's Encyclopedia Brown series--because our TV was in the attic family room and it was hard to see the TV through the steam of  my breath.  The heat didn't rise high enough to keep the attic even close to warm enough. As I recall, there wasn't much on TV anyway, aside from Happy Days, Charlie's Angels and MASH.

New Addition to the Blogroll

Hey all you photo hounds.....mattnoyes (weathercaster on NECN) has started a blog to share photos of New England.....there are some amazingly gorgeous photos over there--worth the click for sure.