Summer 2022 — Part 3
This photo shows an almost-180-degree view of the western sky at sunrise, August 11, 2022. More photos of the sky will follow, but first birds, insects, flowers, and other things. …
Early Summer Wanderings
Spring 2021 ended with some beautiful but hot days. Early summer 2021 was rainy. We needed it. I wandered around the eastern part of the Upper Valley taking photos: Springfield,…
Rainbow over Lake Sunapee
The rain was just ending Saturday morning, the twelfth day of May, and the sun was rising. The clouds to the southwest were very colorful. And there was a spectacular…
Sunrise, Sunset
A recent sunrise and sunset over Lake Sunapee. I feel that sunrise and sunset photos are better with foreground objects and not just pretty clouds.
Comet NEOWISE
Comet NEOWISE paid us a visit in mid-July, 2020. You can still see it if you hurry and choose a clear night. Look to the NW below the Big Dipper…
Clearing Storm
The bright red on the horizon on June 30 was just the preamble. The real show came the next night after 3 days of much-needed rain. It was a clearing…
First Week of July 2019
The first week of July was mostly warm and sunny with only one day of overcast, wind, and threatening storms that mostly did not materialize. At 6 AM July 1st,…
Loon Chicks on Lake Sunapee
June 30, plus or minus a day, a pair of loon chicks hatched on Lake Sunapee. Jann and I discovered them July 3 and spent about 15 minutes with them.…
First Week of Summer 2019
The first week of summer 2019 included several short walks and a nice hike over Firescrew and Cardigan from the north. There were some colorful sunsets, a bit of accidental…
Lupines in Bloom
One does not have to travel to Sugar Hill to photograph lupines, though the mountains, white church, and pancakes there are very nice. I recently found the lupines here closer…
SRKG 1 Hike
On a warm and very humid day, Bruce, his dog, Caro, and I hiked over Mount Sunapee yesterday. We followed Sunapee-Ragged-Kearsarge Greenway Trail 1, which consists of the Newbury Trail…
Loon with adolescent chick
Yesterday I spent, literally, one minute with the Sunapee loon mother and her chick, "Penny". The light and the water were terrible for photography, and we were just passing through.…