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Island Imago | Fieldnotes Bill's Island, Merchant Row
September 13, 2017
Granite ledges surround a spruce forest, an abundance of beach roses, and a small meadow area on Bill's Island, one of many granite islands in the Merchant Row archipelag...
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"And the lotos rose quietly, quietly..."
August 07, 2017
“And the lotos rose quietly, quietly,
The surface glittered out of heart of light"
-T.S. Eliot, from Burnt Norton, "Four Quartets"
The lotus flower symbolizes purity...
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Calderwood Island's New Residents: Cracker, Barrel, and Jack
April 25, 2016
Calderwood Island, just off of North Haven Island in the East Penobscot Bay, is a narrow island with rocky beaches, stone cliffs, spruce forests, and large open areas cov...
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Butter Island: "Come, my friends..."
November 05, 2015
“Come, my friends, ‘tis not too late to seek a newer world”
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses,” en graved on the Thomas Cabot Granite Memorial Bench, Butter Island, ME...
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Late Summer on Plum Island
November 03, 2015
Beach plums, swarms of swallows and shorebirds, lush grasses with hints of gold hues that will eventually take over the landscape...late summer is an especially beautiful...
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