New England, 2022 and 2023

Whales

Posted January 23, 2024, 10:10 p.m.

And now for some more photos from my backlog.

Melissa and I made two trips to New England over the last year and a half. The first took us to Providence, Rhode Island; Lost River Gorge, New Hampshire; Mount Washington, New Hampshire; and Plymouth, Massachusetts. The second took us to various sites in Maine, including Bangor, Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain, and the waters between Maine and Nova Scotia, Canada.

Enjoy!

Lost River Gorge

The Lost River Gorge and Boulder Caves is a privately owned nature park that includes a boardwalk for hiking through the gorge, numerous caves and waterfalls, overlooks, and more. It is located near North Woodstock, Maine.

Rooty

Bearable — Rooty

Acadia National Park

Acadia National Park is located near the city of Bar Harbor, Maine. It includes lakes, mountains, beaches, rocks, and trees. During our visit we spent time at Jordan Pond, Monument Cove, and Cadillac Mountain.

Rockfog

Lumpy — Rockfog

Bass Harbor

We also visited the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse, which is part of Acadia National Park but is pretty far away from the main area of the park. There’s a lighthouse and some rocks.

Pretty

Clever? — Pretty

Whales, Etc.

We went on a whale watching tour with the Bar Harbor Whale Watch Company. We saw whales . . . and puffins, and porpoises, and a rare basking shark. Good stuff.

Uh...what? — Uh . . . what?

Dock Zone — Uh . . . what?

More Etc.

Finally, some random photos from the trip, including from the top of Mount Washington and me standing with the statue of my great (x9) granddad.

From the Top

Wind — From the Top

Shot on Apple iPhone 14 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S20FE, and Sony Alpha 6600 (Samyang AF 45mm, Sony E 18-135mm, and Tamron 70-300mm lenses). Processed in Adobe Lightroom.

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Digitalization dehumanizes a conversation. This usually happens in a hidden, insidious way, but sometimes it can also be felt very sharply.

There’s no such thing as life without bloodshed.

It makes little sense to condemn Christianity for its adherents’ and leaders’ hypocrisy; our faith is possibly the only one in the world that openly admits it is full of imperfect, sinful hypocrites.

Without scarcity, there is no need to economize—and therefore no economics.

God created man and woman, equal to each other as persons and in dignity. Each is completely human and is meant to complement the other in a communion of persons, seen most evidently in marriage.

No matter how formidably communism bristles with tanks and rockets, no matter what successes it attains in seizing the planet, it is doomed never to vanquish Christianity.

As history demonstrates, a democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. . . . Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less.

You can’t get good Chinese takeout in China and Cuban cigars are rationed in Cuba. That’s all you need to know about communism.

If we want limited government, as we should, and a level of taxation that is not unduly burdensome, we need healthy institutions of civil society, beginning with a flourishing marriage culture that supports family formation and preservation.

The greatest intellectual discovery of this generation is that the real cause of problems is solutions.

The need to match mass standards frequently prevents independent-minded people from giving their contribution to public life.

It is both irrational and counterproductive to fight evil by disarming good.

The basic requirement for the understanding of the politics of change is to recognize the world as it is. We must work with it on its terms if we are to change it to the kind of world we would like it to be.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better.

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

All mankind, right down to those you most despise, are your neighbors.

The dark night of fascism is always descending in the United States and yet lands only in Europe.