32 posts tagged “maine”
Today is Blog Action Day! The theme for this year is climate change. I don't have much to say about the subject that hasn't been said a zillion times before (including very thoroughly, concisely, and cheaply in this great little book), but it's always important to spread the word.
Here's another photo from my apple-picking trip (supporting local agriculture is just one of the many ways that individuals can help combat climate change):
I went apple picking yesterday with some friends, and brought home nine pounds of Cortlands. Here are a couple of shots from the trip:
Yesterday was the First Friday Art Walk, but before I sat around trying to sell stuff, my father and I spent a lovely part of the afternoon walking around Two Lights State Park in Cape Elizabeth and taking photos:
I went to the Common Ground Fair yesterday and spent the morning walking around looking at crafts and animals and other lovely things. I spent most of the afternoon volunteering, which in this case meant sifting through old dirt and separating from it things that had not composted properly. This included a lot of old animal bones, which I am keeping for a future art project.
Here's a goat:
I have discovered two less-than-optimal things about my camera: one is that the lens is long enough to block the flash when taking macro shots (which can be worked around), and the other is that the battery dies very suddenly (it spent the better part of two weeks reading at 100%, then dropped to nothing within an hour. My replacement batteries entered the camera at 79% charge and fell just as fast). This is the bigger problem.
I happened to wake up early a few nights ago and I caught a beautiful sunrise. As a counterpart to the sunset photo I posted recently, here it is:
Here's a nice picture I took from my window the other day:
Also, I managed to get most of the rust off my keys. Hooray!
I was supposed to go on a hike up Mt. Washington on Saturday, but I overslept and missed the van. So that was disappointing.
But!
On Sunday I went with my parents to the Common Ground Fair (an agricultural festival run by the Maine Organic Farmers and Growers Association), which was AMAZING. There were all sorts of farm animals, poultry, and rabbits, and there were some amazing folk arts and other crafts in the tents. I added to my button collection (one Amnesty International, one Heifer Project, one "STOP the war"). I bought some green glass beads and thought about buying some bunny wool... but I already have plenty of yarn.
Here are some photos of the animals:
For my graphic design class we had to play with the letter A, in Helvetica. The first part of the assignment was to deconstruct and rearrange the letter using cut-outs and stenciling. Then we took a foam version and brought it around Portland to be photographed. Here's one of my photos:
I'm back at MECA now, meeting all the new people and waiting for classes to start (Tuesday). I have a nice sunny single room on the top/fifth floor of the dorms. Here are a couple photos of my view, which is a lot more exciting than it was last term... I can even see the ocean!
A few weeks ago, the St. John's Bazaar comes to town, as it does every June. It's a weekend festival of the scary, quickly-assembled type. I haven't gone to it since I was quite young, but I did take some pictures of the ferris wheel this year:
