Posts Tagged ‘water’
Hypnotic seaweed.
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010In Maine, even seaweed is beautiful. Click here to see the larger version of the video.
3,000 miles of rocky coast, clean water, and the large tidal flow make Maine very seaweed friendly.
Seaweed is a $7-billion global industry. It’s used for food, fertilizer, chemicals, even medicine. Maine’s entrepreneurs are taking notice.
As if lobster wars weren’t enough, now the seaweed battles have begun.
Pink winter skies.
Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Blazing sunrise.
Thursday, November 5th, 2009Spend 33 seconds in Maine.
Thursday, October 15th, 2009If you can’t be in Maine, here’s a way to see what it’s like to wake to a sunrise with the sound of a lobster boat in the background.
Big moon rising.
Thursday, October 8th, 2009(Still fiddling with a new camera.) The night of the Harvest Moon was too foggy to really see it. This was the next night.
It was bright orange as it came up over the horizon.
And got brighter and whiter as it rose, spreading sparkles over the water. You’ll notice that it’s not fully round — the top right edge is soft.
(Raw video)
The names of the full moons are – - January — Full Wolf Moon; February — Full Snow Moon, March – Full Worm Moon; April – Full Pink Moon; May – Full Flower Moon; June – Full Strawberry Moon; July – Full Buck Moon; August – Full Sturgeon Moon; September -- Full Corn Moon; October – Full Harvest Moon; November – Full Beaver Moon; December – Full Cold Moon.
A Blue Moon is the second full moon in one month.
The names are a mix of the names both the Indians and the European settlers used. There’s a bit more info at The Farmers Almanac.
These pics were taken before the moon bombing, a very interesting project by NASA.
What’s in the sky, is on the water.
Monday, August 10th, 2009
The sky often merges into the water, and you can’t tell where one stops and the other begins.
Gray is beautiful.
Sunday, June 28th, 2009
Some call it June gloom. If you’re in an area near a large body of water, you’ll often experience this soggy, gray shift from spring into summer.
Lucky Maine is just as beautiful in neutral tones, as in brilliant ones.
Especially when framed in silvery mist.
Spring, sunrise, sunset.
Thursday, April 16th, 2009
The high art of catching elvers.
Sunday, April 27th, 2008The acclaimed artists called Christo might be impressed with these interesting nets that magically appeared all along the Union River in Ellsworth, Maine. Here is their ‘Running Fence Project.’ They have a ‘River Project’ in progress as well.
But these nets are not fishing for acclaim, they are fishing for the very elusive elvers.
Hatched in the Sargasso Sea, elvers (young eels) amazingly find their way from the Atlantic Ocean, up the Union River to Ellsworth, Maine, and other fresh water rivers in North America. The American eel (Anguilla rostrata) has a catadromous life cycle, which means that they spawn in the ocean and migrate to fresh water to grow to adult size.
They are relatively rare and are one of the highest per pound catches in the world. Japan and Korea are lucrative markets. It’s a slippery business as this market attracts those who are interested in short term, high risk investments. And they are not day traders, they have to harvest their catch at odd hours only during the night. The season continues until May 31.
If you go to Ellsworth to check them out, stop in Rooster Brother to catch some good food. They appear to be important to the life cycle of elver fisherman and other hungry folks as well. Besides, they have refined the high art of roasting great coffee beans.
