A few days ago it was not raining. I used this as an opportunity to do some outdoor photography in the morning and early afternoon. I had no real plans for the day except for a 9 AM haircut. I travelled to some familiar spots and also got to a few places I didn’t remember seeing before.
The day started with some photography of wildflowers in my yard — we don’t have much of a garden. In the grass/weeds along my driveway I found one of my favorite spring flowers, the tiny blue-eyed grass. The tip-to-tip diameter of the petals here is less than 3/4 inch.
The lupines were starting to bloom, so naturally they had to be photographed. And for variety I tried an in-camera multiple exposure as seen in the last image in the slide show below.
I travelled up River Road from Hanover through Lyme and to Orford stopping to make the photo below of the Connecticut River.
Before I reached the village of Orford I stopped at Reed’s Marsh where I found blue-flag iris growing in the water and a dragonfly chewing its prey.
But the stars of this spot were three birds: a 1st Summer male American Redstart serenading me, a Common Yellowthroat constantly singing, and a Belted Kingfisher, fishing, of course. Here is a brief slide show of this trio.
I’d been to Orford many times and had seen and photographed these fences before.
But I’d never “seen” the Orford Social Library. Isn’t it interesting how one can look but not really see.
I’d been through Wentworth before but never really lingered. Even this time I didn’t stay long — just long enough to make a 3-shot panorama of the Baker River and poppies growing in a beautiful yard in the center of town.
In Groton I found the Mary Baker Eddy House. A sign informed me that she was the founder of Christian Science and lived here for a few years.
Then it was onto the Hebron and the interesting Sculptured Rocks and the Cockermouth River still passing through them. On a warm summer day this area is used for swimming by daring kids, but on this cool spring day I was there all alone.
I stopped for lunch — blue cheese and lettuce that I had with me — at the NH Audubon area at the north end of Newfound Lake. Again I had the spot to myself.
My loop took me through Alexandria and some “new” sights: The beautiful United Methodist Church and a nearby field of “stuff”.
Finally a brief stop at the Danbury Bog at the base of Ragged Mountain. One of these years I’ll have to explore it by kayak.
For those who might care about such things, 8 of the images in the Blog are stitched “panoramas”. They range from 2-shot pans to the 12-shot pan above. The result for the bog is a 71 MP image from a camera with only about a dozen MP.
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