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    Think A Little

    … on yawns from screams

    Small round snowflakes float on air Bouncing, Seuss-like, here… and there. All the while the blue sky beams And I dream of yawns replacing... Read More

    Tags: poem, poetry, photography, secrets to happiness, hope, maine blogger, maine photographer, snowy owl, unity

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    Cry A Little

    … on the who outside the bathroom door

    Late this morning, I was in the bathroom with, I’m ashamed to say, my phone, when I saw the screen light up with a... Read More

    Tags: musings, family, secrets to happiness, parenting, just ponderin', adult children, maine blogger, mothers and daughters, lisa dingle, mothers and sons

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    Think A Little

    … on who transcended who

    In the midst of a holiday season that sprinkled warmth and joy with pandemical particulates in each of our peripheral visions… A text. Two... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, photography, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', maine birds, maine blogger, snowy owl

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    Think A Little

    … on yours, mine, and ours

    I have said (well, typed), more than once on these pages, that no one – not me or you or that guy over there... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, secrets to happiness, maine blogger, maine photography, justponderin', 2020, sonder, John Koenig

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    Think A Little

    … on appreciating the whole show

    A couple of weeks ago, just after late afternoon rain, I got a text from my friend from across the cove. It was a... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, rainbow

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    Think A Little

    … on the lovings from, and of, a dawg

    Every afternoon, usually between 2:00 and 3:00, JoHn heads into town to pick up a coffee and have a chat with the folks who... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, just ponderin', dog photography, secrets of happiness, maine blogger, maine photographer, rescue dog

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    Laugh A Little

    … on kicking off summ-ah

    As you can see, green is happening. Also there is some purply-pink in the form of a certain rhododendron who lives just outside the... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, just ponderin', Lobstering, midcoast maine, maine blogger, maine photographer, maine writer, lobster boat

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    Think A Little

    … on bird food and wonders

    This morning, I texted a photo of these oranges to a friend and included the label, “Bird food”. I knew she’d get it. We’ve... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, COVID-19, john krasinski, some good news, baltimore oriole

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    Laugh A Little

    … on that elusive ‘next to godliness’ thing

    This post was going to be professionally illustrated. I drew the amoeba, and then the red circle with a line through it. Then I... Read More

    Tags: musings, comedic writing, humor, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, COVID-19, disinfecting

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    Think A Little

    … on the hound’s way

    Yesterday I wandered ’round the house And I wept I wept for those so certain That they are terrified I wept for those so... Read More

    Tags: musings, poem, poetry, photography, just ponderin', secrets of happiness, wonder, maine blogger, maine photographer, english pointer, hound, COVID-19

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    Think A Little

    … on the coming spring

    The timing of spring is relative in midcoast Maine. While others anticipate the days that fall in and around the twenty-first of March, we... Read More

    Tags: musings, gardens, photography, just ponderin', spring, gardening, Maine gardens, maine blogger, maine photographer, maine writer, COVID-19, quarantine, spring garden clean up

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    Think A Little

    … on anticipation (a.k.a., faith)

    In the first week of the President’s request for us to stay at home for fifteen days to ‘flatten the curve’, I made the... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, COVID-19, quarantine, flowers, stargazer lily

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The Chipmunk Channel

The ShepHerds’ (and all dogs who have gone before) favorite channel to watch in Maine (basically we just throw the windows open in the Vampire Room and they climb into their comfy chairs, lean their chins on the window sill, and boob in front of the “tv”. The chipmunks on the front lawn can entertain for hours.

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