I thought I would take a different approach in presenting some of the photos taken while we were in the north woods of Maine and New Hampshire. This is my first attempt at a video slide show. The video is hosted on my server and should stream well enough for all but those with a [...]
Did you ever hear of the old saying, “We were so far back in the woods, they had to pipe in sunlight?” That’s about how far we traveled to add another bird to our life list, the Gray Jay. This bird has eluded us for so long and it was almost by chance that we [...]
The Presidential Range is a mountain range located in the White Mountains of the state of New Hampshire, almost entirely in Coos County. The most notable summits of the range are named for prominent Americans, either public figures of the 18th and 19th centuries or Presidents.
Landscape photos taken during our trip to northern Maine and New Hampshire back during the second week of July 2009. This completes the series from our trip. You may view parts 1 and 2 by following the links below. Trip report part 1: Boreal Birds and Moose Trip report part 2: Moose
Mount Washington is the highest peak in the Northeastern United States at 6,288 ft (1,917 m). It is famous for its dangerously erratic weather, holding the record for the highest wind gust directly measured at the Earth’s surface, at 231 mph (372 km/h) on the afternoon of April 12, 1934. It was known as [...]
One of the reason we vacationed in northern Maine were the prospects of discovering Moose as Sharon has never seen one in the wild. Spring and fall are the best times for viewing Moose in the region, but I figured with very wet and cool weather from the end of May through the beginning of [...]