Saddleback

A quick post .

Most of the snow down low is melted.

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I started a Tumblr blog, and I'll be posting assorted photos over there. Stop on over and take a look, it's at http://kette-adene.tumblr.com/.

There is an assortment of panoramas right now.  Having a blog is troublesome. You want to have new material to keep interest up, but life doesn't always present you with material. Well, it does, it's just a lot of it is private and needn't be aired.

Enjoy it, I will still be posting here too, and I may post more stuff, but not what you are used to.

Bar Harbor and the Whites Mountains of New Hampshire,1929.

Over the winter, I started working on my family history.  My parents were older than usual when they had me, and so I didn't get to know my grandparents. I do love history and with a little research, a lot comes into view.

Anyway, when my dad was in college in Philadelphia, he took a job with a wealthy family from Philadelphia. They had a summer place in Bar Harbor, Maine and he became their chauffeur for the summer. That was in 1929.  He came back from Bar Harbor, then the Great Depression started in October.  And then in December, his father, my Grandfather died in a car wreck. It was a tough year.
My dad went on to be a doctor, and retired in 1982. He passed in 1993, at the age of 84.

Acadia National Park

Bar Harbor

The view from Cadillac Mountain down to the town of Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands

Frenchman's Bay

Three masted schooner. They were still a working ship up until the 1940's

I'm thinking this is on the Park Loop Road.

Farmer with his oxen

The Old Man in the Mountain

The Cog Railway at Mt Washington

Cog Railway

Spring, well not quite.

Those of us who live in Northern New England are patiently waiting for winter to give up the ghost.
We get a day, maybe two of sunny skies, warm weather, or what passes for warm for us. A 40 degree temp can have us downright giddy. While friends farther south are smugly announcing flowers blooming, grass greening, frogs spawning. We however are not so easily fooled. Save for some in Southern Maine, but that's another story. I won't go there.

Today anywhere from 3-6 inches of snow are supposed to fall up here in Maine.  We'll suffer with it. Quietly cry, moan and scream expletives to the sky.  But our winter/spring transition has been a good one. Maple syrup producers are very happy, there is still skiing, and we have mud. Glorious mud, suck the boot right off your foot, swallow your car out  of sight, redecorate your floor with muddy paw prints stuff. It scares the tourists. We love/hate it. But it means spring is coming, just give it time.

The blackflies should be great this year.