Farewell, September!

 Camden, Maine

With thanks to Alan!

 

The Last (home grown) Butterfly of the Season

 

Maine LOL Lobster

New Book, Published TODAY!

 

Pillows just like Aunt Marie used to make...

 ... before Multiple Sclerosis made that impossible.

"Slowly passing sailing ships and Sunday afternoons" ~ JT

BBC has this LIVE!!

 

Looking Good

“Water, sleep and sweat. Not too much red meet.”
- Lionel Richie, on keeping his looks, as quoted in AARP Bulletin, July 2023

Sun Down, Moon Up

 

Saw a hot air balloon while out sailing!

 

Mum's the word

 

☠️ YARRRRRRRRRR!!

 

 

🥳 Happy Birthday, puddle! 💐 💝 & hearts ; ❤️

 

Hurricane Lee is now a post-tropical Tropical Storm strength storm

 

 

Wonders of Nature: The Feather Star

This beautiful creature is a Crinoid called a feather star. Since the class Crinoidea belongs to the phylum Echinodermata, feather stars and their close relatives sea lilies are also related to sea stars (starfish), sea cucumbers, and sea urchins.

The crinoids are the oldest class of echinoderms. Fossils of extinct species show that they were in existence as long as five hundred seventy million years ago. Like other echinoderms, crinoids display pentaradial symmetry. They may have five arms or many more, but those arms often grow in multiples of five. Also like other echinoderms, if a crinoid loses an arm, it can grow it back.

Feather stars, which live in coral reefs and often have symbiotic relationships with small creatures such as shrimp, can swim through the ocean waters or crawl in their habitat with their many arms, that are called temen.

Read about crinoids and see gorgeous photos at One World One Ocean: Blue Zoo: Crinoids [Click]
Read specifically about feather stars and see more gorgeous potos at A-Z Animals: Feather Star [Click] and Feather Star: Meet the Fascinating Marine Creature [Click]

Here’s a relevant 2022 article: Scientists found a new sea creature with 20 'arms' and named it after a strawberry [Click]

Male Juvenile Rose Breasted Grosbeak

 

Northern Lights over Malletts Bay, Vermont!

photo credit: Adam Silverman Photography


THIS is what was happening on Tuesday evening, right there at our boat,
Loch Nest, while I was home dealing with food poisoning!
~ listener

 

Blue Sky Day with Cloud

 

Mount Mansfield

 

22 Years Ago...the Twin Towers