Good morning, good morning.

Two summers ago, these three birds were spotted in the skies over Machias Seal Island, off the coast of downeast Maine. The whirlybird had j...

Satellites take pictures of the same places over and over again--in winter, in spring, in hurricane season, in drought. Needless to say, the...

This prayer service in a soccer stadium in Mopti, a small city near the center of the West African nation of Mali, marks the beginning of fe...

From time to time, I propose to send pictures of places I've never seen but would like to visit. The list of candidate places is long, b...

It has been Hank's good fortune over the years to have at least one older brother who has been helpful in showing him how to dress styli...

This photo from Amman, Jordan, comes via Katrin Maldre.

Ice day, actually, Thursday night into Friday. Without power and cable, the blogging didn't go well. Most of us in Portland, however, ar...

This picture is a manganese X-ray map--an image showing where the metal manganese is concentrated in a sample of rock. An electron microprob...

About thirty years ago, both of John's grandfathers and his great-grandmother all wanted to hold him. Top to bottom, he poses in the arm...

Today we've got a little movie for everybody--a file called allen's new camera.mpg. It's a 57-second action classic, starring Ha...

Scattered from coast to coast, roughly along the route of U.S. HIghway 40, sit twelve identical statues, each ten feet high and weighing fiv...

Ten years ago, this snapshot of the 8 grandchildren was taken with a cardboard camera during our celebration of my parents' 50th anniver...

Used to be, back in the days of Rose Bowls and glory under Coach Wallace Wade, that the Alabama football team had the best of everything whi...

According to John Stein, this would make a crazy t-shirt.

The baby didn't fall. Maybe he fell, but he survived to become the eldest of eight children of Lynn and Hugh Massman, and he wore clean,...

We talked the whole night through. Good morning, good morning, to you. They say that this song-n-dance number was quite a challenge for Debb...

Sebago Lake, about 20 miles northwest of Portland, is the deepest lake in Maine. In some places, the lake bottom is more than 300 feet below...

For about six months now, a PowerPoint slide show purporting to contain 52 photos by "a German photographer" has been circulating ...

Today's pictures are stolen shamelessly from the Maine Sunday Telegram, which ran a story by Kelley Bouchard about a farmer named Bill S...

The town of Tunbridge, Vermont, gathered in 2006 for a town picture that was posted here last year. But ten years before that, Tunbridge wa...

A few days ago, a gang of pirates from Somalia captured the Sirius Star, a ship the size of an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean. The Sir...

Enough of that stork stuff. Today we've got a seal, resting on a beach in New Zealand. Hat tip to A , who saw that seal and snapped it u...

Father Acastorio watches over the entrance to an alley in Verona.

I was pawing through Google Earth hacks, which is something I do sometimes, when I came across one for Villa Villekulla, on an island in the...

Do you know these people? They were last spotted in the old Patent Office building in Washington, D.C., on the Fourth of July, 2006.

Late in the afternoon of April 2, 2006, we looked out our window across the street, just past the Lutheran church and right smack in back of...

Left to right: The painting "Bouquet with a View," Sandy Horowitz (my mother, and an appreciator of the painting and painter), a...

This warning sign clarifies what is allowed and not allowed in Verona.