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New Dog

Jonathan — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 13:27:15 +0000

On December 17th we adopted a dog from a rescue shelter in Maine. The dog is a lab mix and came originally from a southern kill shelter and was a day away from being put down. Unfortunately due to substandard breeding laws in the south and no requirement to get dogs spayed or neutered it leads to a high population of unwanted dogs ending up in “High Kill Shelters” where they are lucky to last a week before being put down if someone does not come forward and rescue them. Unfortunately a lot of these shelters will “clean house” right before Christmas so they do not have to look after them during the holiday period.

We drove up to the dogs temporary foster home in Camden, Maine to see it before adopting and were not disappointed!

She has been with us now for 10 days and has settled in nicely. She currently sleeps in a crate in our room and gets plenty of walks and exercise during the day. She travels well in the car and aside from a couple of accidents she is well potty trained.

We called her “Toffee”. Here are some pictures and video of the new addition to our household!

Bird, Deer and Turkey

Jonathan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:09:31 +0000

It was a busy morning before work today. I left the house early to catch a 747 (N820SA) take off from Pease for Dover AFB in Delaware. Then, on my way back into the office I spotted a couple of deer and some turkeys!

When I arrived at the air base/wildlife refuge the light was was still pretty poor. I HDR’ed the first two pictures of the 747 to make them a little more interesting.

The deer crossed the road in front of me and posed for a few seconds before hurriedly hopping off into the woods…. it is hunting season after all.

These turkeys were in a much larger group but again, they had moved away too quickly to get a shot of them all.

Christmas Decorations

Jonathan — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:58:46 +0000

We put up our Christmas decorations over the Thanksgiving weekend. We are pretty pleased with how they came out.

This year I decided to decorate outside the house as well. I thought I would start of simple before trying anything too ambitious…. plenty more years for that!

More Foliage at Pease

Jonathan — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:05:09 +0000

The foliage at Pease is looking pretty good still. These trees were all yellow a few days ago but are now orange turning to brown. The overcast skies naturally saturated the colors and made for some nice photos. It was peaceful taking pictures in the light rain, except for the occasional C-5 overhead doing touch and go’s!

Yellow Foliage at Pease

Jonathan — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 02:34:39 +0000

The foliage around the airport is currently looking very yellow! I stopped at the side of the road and walked into the woods to do some leaf peeping and take some shots with my failing 17-85mm lens. It has been playing up so much recently that I consider myself very lucky to have got these photos.

Fall Colour at Loon Mountain

Jonathan — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:41:12 +0000

Yesterday, we took a drive down the famous Kancamagus highway from North Conway to Lincoln to check out the fall foliage. The foliage on the higher elevations was past peak but was still very good in other areas. We stopped at the entrance to Loon Mountain to take the majority of my foliage pictures.

This bridge is at Lake Chocorua in Tamworth, NH. We always stop here on the way up to the white mountains.

A bridge on the Kancamagus Highway:

Loon Mountain:

This bridge got wiped out by Hurricane Irene at the end of August:

Halloween and Fall Decorations

Jonathan — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:35:16 +0000

The stores are awash with Halloween and fall decorations and fake graveyards and skulls and bones are cropping up all over the neighbourhood!

Not to be outdone by the neighbours, we bought a couple of decorations for the front garden.

A Bat at Work

Jonathan — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 20:31:59 +0000

As I arrived at work this morning around 7:45 I was greeted by a bat hanging from the entrance of the office!

It was completely unphased by people arriving for work.

Interesting Sunset

Jonathan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:59:36 +0000

The sun looked huge last night as it set. I took this photo on my way home from Portsmouth.

As we got close to home the sky was full of rays of pink light which looked pretty against the the blue sky. I was a little late taking the picture but you can see the effect in this shot.

Sunny Sunday in Portsmouth

Jonathan — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 20:46:04 +0000

On Sunday after the apple picking we spent the afternoon walking around Portsmouth.

The tugboats.

Watching the world go by…

The middle and I-95 bridges.

The closed Memorial Bridge.

The closed memorial bridge as seen from Prescott Park.

The North Church.

We stopped for lunch at Gilley’s, a Portsmouth landmark!

The North Church.