We spent most of our time at York Harbor, not far from where we had our wedding reception. There was a new trail near the wiggly bridge which took us past Sayward-Wheeler House.

The bridge over York Harbor.

Sayward-Wheeler House.

Toffee under the bridge.

We then crossed the street and walked across the wiggly bridge, so called because it wiggles when you walk across it much to the dogs dissatisfaction…

A lobster boat and a dock full of lobster traps.

The other side of the wiggly bridge is Steedman Woods, a nice trail.

On the trail.

The wiggly bridge as seen from the woods. On the return journey it took us some coaxing to get the dog across.

Here it is as seen from our street…

I took a drive down last night but the light was fading pretty rapidly so returned tonight and grabbed some much better shots. Last night I was positioned across the river in Kittery, Maine looking back towards Portsmouth, but today I walked out onto the bridge on the Portsmouth side and got some good shots of the vessels from above.

The bridge closed shortly after i had arrived to allow a barge to pass underneath its raised center section. It allowed me to take this picture of the empty Sarah Mildred Long bridge!

I am standing on the Portsmouth, New Hampshire side of the bridge, the vehicles pictured below are on the Kittery, Maine side.

The Freedom Star with the Mars, a gyroscopically controlled telescope mount used for imaging high definition video and thermal imaging.

The Freedom Star.

MARS

Liberty Star.

The Freedom Star and Liberty Star docked at Portsmouth Harbor.

The primary reason for the trip other than to relax and be as far away from work as possible was to spot our favourite woodland animals, the moose! In total we saw 10 moose and although my favourite lens was broken (a reason why I have not posted in so long) and the weather was not the greatest, I still managed some half decent photos.

It’s a shame the picture doesn’t convey the amazing smell of pine trees when entering the woods:

Our cabin for the weekend, overlooking Lake Umbagog:

A view from the desk of our cabin:

A perfect view to watch and relax:

A beaver swimming past our cabin:

We drove up to Pittsburg (on the international border) on Sunday and saw an amazing freezing fog which which had formed ice over trees.

This log had floated up at the 3rd Connecticut lake. You can see the teeth marks at the end from a beaver.

Back down in Errol to see more moose. This one is a bull moose crossing behind a car.

We stopped by Sunday River Covered Bridge in Bethel, Maine on our way back home on Monday. It was built in 1872:

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!

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.

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!

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: