A Very Good Watering!

Courtesy of tropical storm Irene, our jurassic-sized hosta looks quite happily soaked.  I have NEVER seen this hosta look so thoroughly drenched before!  The water usually just beads up and rolls right down the leaves.  I just love how shiny the leaves got.  I guess that's what hours upon rain will do to a plant...

Shells by the sea shore

So, we were originally planning to go to the beach today.  Yeah, with hurricane Irene looming.... not so much.  Instead we have been taking things off our patio and moving potted plants to keep the wind from getting to the too much.  Keeping with the spirit of going to the beach (I can still daydream right?) I rooted through all my pictures and found this one that I took at a beach down at the Cape earlier in the year. 

Look... a wagon wheel!

You know how I was just talking about how funny things just stick with you?  Bonus points for anyone who recognized the title of this post as a line from the PSA about kids eating cheese in the 1980's.  It just popped into my head when I was looking at this picture the other day and I couldn't resist making reference to it.  For those of you who are curious yet unaware of this PSA, please let me enlighten you:

Piney Goodness

Another picture from our trip to Maine.  A closeup of an eastern white pine tree.  This brings me back to the leaf project I had in 5th grade when we had to learn how to identify a bunch of local trees and collect sample of their leaves.  I will forever remember that this tree has 5 needles per bundle because of that project.  It's funny what weird things you remember from middle school.

Floating Fog

Took this picture this past weekend while on a schooner cruise out of Boothbay Harbor in Maine.  Hubbie and I don't get to sail on larger vessels all that often so being able to spend two hours on the Eastwind was a lovely treat.  We had lots of fog in the harbor when we set sail, which offered some challenges to my picture taking... nevertheless I prevailed and was able to get quite a few I am happy with.  So, expect a few days worth of nautically themed images, I'm sure you can handle it :)

Is it deer week or something?

So, I'm seeing a trend here... I have seen no fewer than 8 deer in the past week.  I'm starting to think they are looking for me rather then the other way around!  First, I saw a doe and three fawns in my apartment complex.  Then this weekend I was taking a walk down the driveway at our place in Maine and I scared the heck out of this, what I'm guessing, is an adolescent deer.  Actually I didn't even see him for the longest time.  All I heard was a sudden galloping of hooves through the leaves off in the woods next to the driveway.  I looked in carefully but couldn't see anything, so I started to walk back to the house.  I just happened to look into the woods one last time before giving up and I saw him.  Cool huh?  That was probably around 11am on Saturday.  Later on that day, when hubbie and I were driving back to the house after going on a wonderful schooner cruise (pics to come), we drove by a field near the house and saw at least three more deer munching away on the tall grass.  One ran off right away and two lingered just long enough for me to get my camera, get out of the car and walk about two steps.  I swear one of them jumped about 4 feet straight in the air as it bounded off into the woods.  It was really REALLY cool to see so much wildlife in one weekend!  Too bad I didn't get any pictures of the last set.  They just moved way too fast for my camera without some prior planning to adjust shutter speed.  Oh well, I'm pretty happy we even saw them at all!

Title... who needs a title? Lol

This is another photo from my walk through Heritage Park in Sudbury, MA.  There is a nice wooded section that loops you around and back to the pond with all the easily frightened frogs and I just loved how the sun filtering through the trees made the leaves glow and the path bathed in light.  It's so neat when it seems like you are walking through a tunnel of leaves that are glowing :)