Taxi Broke

"Wheel fell off and I'm waiting for the wheel truck."
This has happened to me before only I was going 75 mph on 1-95 south in North Carolina.

Kennebec River Swelling

I went down the Kennebec River in my raft.


I went to a place down the river. There was a band.

Olympic Key Chain

Imagine this video on a small key chain sold in China.

Peculiar Death

Sorry. This is the strange death of a bird.

Shopping Cart Train

Weston Street Lodge Porch

Some people gathered on the porch of the Weston Street Lodge Friday night.


Emily and Jaret - both injured.

Visiting Deer Isle (a Staycation)

I went to Deer Isle, Maine to see Janis Goodman. She is an artist and art critic living in Washington, D.C., who has been coming to this summer cabin to paint for the past 25 years.


Andy Grundberg is a photography critic from D.C. He also comes to Maine to vacation during the summer.
He told me that his first full-time job out of college was a copy editor, just like me. Awesome!


Andy asks about a small camera I am using.


Andy and Janis hold for a kayaking picture. They are both professors at the Corcoran College of Art in D.C.; where I went to school.


While kayaking I saw some seals. They didn't let us get very close. You could see their black shiny eyes from 100 yards away. (Janis' interpretive photograph of how the seals saw me.)


Janis had many paintings in a show at Turtle Gallery on Deer Isle. Before I had ever been to Maine, I wrote about similar series of Janis' drawings inspired by the mudflats of Deer Isle.


Mary, Andy's wife, displays flowers bought at the farmers' market on Deer Isle.


Thanks for inviting me out to Deer Isle. (I never saw a deer there.)


Back across the Deer Isle Bridge from Little Deer Isle to the Maine-land.

K-mart Raft III

A shopping cart and my raft. Similar?


Past a buoy. This isn't a bad single-take edit, if I do say so myself.


Upon further investigation, what I first thought was a log pulled by beavers slowly traveling up the Kennebec River, I now believe could have been the back and dorsal fin of a man-sized fish called a Sturgeon.
I saw several osprey fishing. I was too far away to capture them plunging into the water. I saw an eaglet and heard it's parent screeching at it across the river.


I did a single good deed.


I retrieved my 3-month-lost iPod from a good citizen.


I walk home with my raft on my head.

Needs Air

Arnold needs air.

K-mart Raft II

This time I lost an oar. However, someone in Hallowell had found my iPod that I lost there a few months ago. I think it was behind some sacks of hops.

K-mart Raft

I bought a raft at K-Mart and floated down the Kennebec River until my oar broke.