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    Think A Little

    … on beauty in dark and light

    Yesterday morning, the water beneath and beyond our dock was filled with fog. It cast a veil over the recently risen sun, the effect... Read More

    Tags: gratitude, midcoast maine, coastal maine, maine coast, positivity, lobster boats, photography, just ponderin'

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    Laugh A Little

    … on an incorrigible toddler

    So. You know how sometimes, when your kids are little, and you have one of those days when they look really good. Like, you have... Read More

    Tags: photography, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine writer, amaryllis, indoor plants, black thumb, musings, humor

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    Think A Little

    … on warm and welcomed distractions

    I’d been working on a writing piece on and off all day yesterday, and it was kicking my butt big time. No idea why,... Read More

    Tags: photography, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, maine gardening, maine writer, maine life, cozy blog, maine, autumn

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    Think A Little

    … on blooming and resting (and budding)

    Some – not all – just some crabapple trees work so hard blooming up a storm one year, they need a longer-than-twelve-month break before... Read More

    Tags: musings, photography, just ponderin', gardening, gardening in Maine, garden photography, crabapple tree, malus

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    Think A Little

    … on breakfast sounds (poem)

    Breakfast Sounds They are ambient… the people Chairs pulled out, scooched in Napkins unfolded onto laps Babes reaching for everything Shiny spoons offered As distractions,... Read More

    Tags: poetry, photography, jazz, just ponderin', maine blogger, maine photographer, maine writer, breakfast sounds, upright bass, musings

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    Think A Little

    … on not waiting for the tripod

    The other night the snow was still falling and landing softly on all the other flakes that had already bedded down. I’d been looking... Read More

    Tags: musings, maine, photography, secrets to happiness, just ponderin', snow, winter in maine, winter in new england, barn

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    Think A Little

    … on a decade of service

    Today is HRH The Princess Bunny Blaze’s tenth birthday. I was not there on the day of her birth. But I was there, three... Read More

    Tags: musings, german shepherd, maine, photography, old dogs, just ponderin', winter in maine, old dog

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

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

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    Laugh A Little

    … on whispers from within

    Here are the samenesses between Monet and his gardens at Giverny and me and my gardens in Maine. *Monet and I are/were/who-knows-may-be-again humans. *Monet... Read More

    Tags: covid, garden design, garden therapy, musings, photography, secrets to happiness, gardening, Maine gardens

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The Inn

Our house in Maine. It is not an inn anymore (hence the “a private residence” on the sign out front) but it was, in the early 1900s.

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