Hardwater fishing
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Travel, Wild animals and places | No Comments »Took off for February adventure with PFE for our latest feature for Maine magazine. Thank you to friends from South Carolina who came along, and to everyone we met in the shacks and on the ice at Baker's Smelt Camps. The ...
Fall color, No. 1
Tuesday, November 27th, 2012 Posted in Maine days | No Comments »On a fall day at the cabin a few weeks ago, hardwoods across the water blazed red-orange and gold. I paddled the kayak to the summer swim platform (my last dive there around Labor Day). No swimming this time. It ...
Whiskey shaving with Portland General Store
Monday, July 9th, 2012 Posted in In print/published, Lowcountry S.C./Charleston, Maine days | No Comments »Love the Maine and South Carolina connections of this project for Portland General Store (PGS). Last summer, I had the chance to write copy for the company's first look-book and its line of "handsomely addictive, sea-and-forest based products for the ...
Schooner sunset
Thursday, April 26th, 2012 Posted in In print/published, Maine days, Travel, Wine | No Comments »"Everyone is washed over in the end-of-the-day amber sunlight." Check out the latest cover of Maine magazine (May 2012)... a Peter Frank Edwards' shot on the Schooner Olad out of Camden. We'd gone out on a sunset sail with Captain Aaron ...
Snow is the “S” factor
Monday, January 16th, 2012 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »After a snowy night in Portland we're up early, and soon we’re onto ME-26 and driving north on a route that passes Gray, Bryant Pond, and Paris. "Everywhere, the landscape is buried, and branches of the spruce and pines droop ...
Oyster drive in winter-white Maine
Sunday, March 13th, 2011 Posted in Food, In print/published, Maine days, Oysters, Travel | No Comments »I'm so excited to see this in print. Below is the opener for our first piece for Maine magazine, "Oyster Drive," a 9-page feature in the March issue. (Yes, that's an oysterman collecting oysters in the snow - Adam Campbell ...
Farm fog
Tuesday, December 8th, 2009 Posted in Maine days | 1 Comment »On that November Maine trip, I played with an old plastic Diana camera. Here are two favorites - of belted cows and a barn on State Route 46, and of the foggy harbor between Bucksport and Prospect. That's the mid-1800s ...
Sauerkraut and Belon
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Oysters, Travel | 1 Comment »On a November drive on the Maine coast north of Portland, we stopped in at Morse's Sauerkraut for a quart of their brined cabbage. I love the sour crunch, hot or cold. We met one of the owners and learned ...
July Mainer
Saturday, July 18th, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »Sunshine is even more precious in Maine this summer. Everyone talks of the rainy weeks of June. One lobsterman shook his head and said, "Ain't had no spring. Hardly had no summer." But since arriving on the eve of July ...
Knee deep in Maine
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Maine days, Travel | No Comments »I'm working this week in western Maine, and checking out ski towns. Last night the sky opened to a major drop of snow. While we drank a couple of beers at dinner at The Rack (Olympic snowboarder Seth Weston's place), ...
Fat snowflakes, bacon and beer
Thursday, February 19th, 2009 Posted in Food, Maine days, Travel | No Comments »Last night we double-hopped dinner around Longfellow Square in Portland, Maine. At Local 188, it was a round of Estrella and Unibroue with a long plate of spicy meatballs to share. We'd been to Local before, when it was in ...
Maine swims, meals
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Posted in Food, Maine days | No Comments »Spent only part of August at the cabin this year, and much of our stay was in silver. There were clouds often, a chill in the morning. We still jumped in the lake the first afternoon, and most ...