March… cabin fever season. One can get grumpy.
In order to stave off cabin fever/grumpiness I headed out to make some photographs.
I ended up in the small town of Temple, NH (about 20 miles SSE of Antrim) and made a few photographs in and around the town common with my camera obscura.
[scrollGallery id=842 – autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]
Made on my wanderings over the past ten days.
[scrollGallery id=763 – autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]
Spring is not quite here yet, but there are faint signs that it is coming.
We had a few days of temperatures in the 50’s, in might have actually reached 60 the other day. We even had a night in which it stayed above freezing. The snow is rapidly receding, the ice is pulling back from the edges of the lake and, of course, there is lots of mud in the road!
However, the next few days the high temperatures will be in the 30s and there are two nights predicted to be in the single digits. So Spring is not quite here yet!
The photos shown here were made on walks over the past four days.
[scrollGallery id=760 – autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]
This week is town meeting week. Elections for town offices were held today and the town meeting is Thursday evening.
“Meeting” is one of the three “M words” associated with March in northern New England. The other two are “mud” and “maple”. Mud season has been unexciting this year. Judging from the great plumes of steam emanating from local sugar shacks, the sap is running well.
After I voted this morning, I meandered, with cameras in tow, through Hillsborough and Deering with short traverses through “corners” of Hennicker and Francestown. I stopped at a favorite farm on Bear Hill Road in Hillsborough and discovered a new (to me) church in East Deering.
By the time I got to East Deering the interesting skies had turned smooth gray and it had begun to drizzle. I’ll be returning to East Deering when the conditions (light and skies) are better.
[scrollGallery id=695 – autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]
Most folks associate March with “Madness”. For me, March is associated with three other “M words”… Maple, Mud and Meeting. Maple as in maple sap/syrup. Mud as in mud season. Meeting as in Town Meeting. This past week we have had all three of these “M words”.
Yesterday afternoon, I went for a walk. At the end of our driveway, I had a choice… left and the mud of the “civilized” section of the road or right and the slush of the un-maintained section of our road. I opted for the slush.
Of course, I took my camera with me.
[scrollGallery id=626 – autoscroll = false width = 600 height = 600 useCaptions = true]
Powered by WordPress