This particular evening the water was really warm and there were quite a few people still swimming as the sun went down.
After noticing these pictures I never posted, it got me thinking about the contrast of weather. Currently it is so very cold and snowy. I’m not yearning for summer, but it’s nice to know it will be here again.
The first snölykta of the season.
Tranquil Seavey Creek is a salt water marsh and stream in Northern Rye, New Hampshire, just next to Odiorne Point State Park. It fills up as the tides come in from the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Piscataqua River.
The Double Crested Comorant
One of the summits from the ancient volcano.
Eastern Painted Turtle
Phylactolaemata
On the shore of Log Cabin Island, one of the many islands to rest and swim at.
“Bird Island”, one of the many little islets in the lake.
Looking down towards the other end of this long lake.
Curious little fish in the shallows. (Banded Sunfish?)
At one end of the lake is Nottingham Town Beach.
A well camouflaged Pickerel Frog on the banks.
A young Ganoderma tsugae, Reishi mushroom.
A shy cottonmouth, aka water moccasin.
Wild terrestrial orchid, “Pink lady’s-slipper”
A Snapping turtle waiting to cross the path.
A maturing Reishi mushroom.
Entrance to Demon Pond.
A beaver lodge.
This particular place had a nice feeling to it. The water level is above you as you walk past the beaver dam in the background, holding back Demon Pond.
Young Alder trees.
It’s been a while since the beaches opened up and here in Maine I noticed that the ocean had a much greener hue to it than usual. There were intense heat waves this Spring that must have been good conditions for phytoplankton. The temperature of the water was surprisingly warm for June, yet hardly any people and no one swimming.
channeling the abstract 