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Hurricane Bill at Jenness Beach

Jonathan — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:50:48 +0000

Hurricane Bill passed 150 miles off the coast of New Hampshire this weekend bringing big waves and dangerous rip tides to the states beaches. We spent a few hours on Sunday at Jenness Beach.

The large waves brought big sweeping tides for paddling.

As the tide came in, so did larger waves.

Lifeguards kept watch as high tide approaches:

A presidential jet flew overhead.

Lifeguards get everyone out of the water:

A Rye Police officer helps with clearing the beach:

Following the closure of the beach I went to Wallis Sands where people were watching the coastline take a pounding by the waves:

Nubble Light in Snow

Jonathan — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:04:05 +0000

The Cape Neddick Lighthouse (Nubble Light) was constructed in 1878 and is located in York, Maine, approximately 25 miles from our apartment. I will never tire of photographing the lighthouse. I took this image on January 10th of the lighthouse in the snow. It is one of my favourite images of the Nubble.

Taken at 85mm, 1/250th second at f/10, ISO 100.

The First Month

Jonathan — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:52:05 +0000

Yesterday marked one month since I entered the U.S. to get married and live. The wedding is still three weeks away but plenty has happened in the first four weeks. Because I have been a little slack updating my blog (in favour of twittering every few hours!), I thought I would include a few events in the one blog posting.

Moving Apartment
We moved into our new apartment on August 20th. The new apartment is a lovely spacious two bedroom in the seacoast area of New Hampshire. We rented a U-Haul to move our stuff to the new apartment and managed to get everything moved in the one day, thus avoiding charges for a second day!

In the weeks that followed we bought a lovely Laura Ashley mattress, a bed, Samsung HDTV and most recently a sofa bed and a love seat. Our cable/Internet is being activated on Wednesday so I can then stop leaching Internet access off of our neighbours open wireless router!

Wedding Preparation
As far as the wedding is concerned we have got our marriage licence, met a couple of times with the priest, met with the florist and the owner of our reception venue. I have also been fitted for a lovely Ralph Lauren tuxedo and rented the same for the rest of the wedding party. Yesterday we met with the pianist at the church and the DJ. We have also chosen, ordered and engraved our wedding rings. I am travelling down to Boston tomorrow to pick them up.

Immigration
I have applied for and received my social security number! The next stage is to apply for AOS ‘Adjustment of Status’ to permanent resident (green card) and my EOD ‘Employment Authorization Document’. This will happen after we are married at the end of the month.

York Beach/Harbour
Last Saturday we went to York Beach, Maine for Labor Day weekend. We spent most of the day on the beach. The weather was amazing. We spent 7 hours in total lying in the sun and swimming in the ocean. All in all a very relaxing day. I unfortunately forgot to reapply sun cream to my feet and ended up with a very sore pair of feet for about 5 days!