StarStruk By Life

My own look at the world and its inhabitants…

The Boat Series…

I take photos a lot.  I take a lot of photos a lot.  It is hard to do anything around here without feeling the NEED to take photos.  Lately, I’ve noticed a pattern.  I seem to shoot lots of photos of certain types of things around me.  I thought I would start with a taste […]

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Post-post-Irene…

The ocean waves have settled down, the flotillas of churned up seaweed have blanketed the shores and moved on and life here has returned to normal.  Today was my day to take care of the little things that Irene left behind. I started off by rinsing the encrusted salt from all the ocean-facing windows…then I […]

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Irene blows away…

We were so lucky here in midcoast Maine.  We prepared for the worst, taking down our hanging plants and bird feeders. The ocean started off in its normal state…  Then came the wind and the seas came alive… And then…  Then the fun really began!

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Here comes Irene…

And so it begins…the weather folks are predicting that Hurricane Irene may impact New England, including our little pocket of midcoast Maine, near the end of her run.  Even though she will probably be Category 1 at worst when she arrives, that still means high winds and heavy rain…it means that old trees hanging on by […]

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‘lympies, etc…

We have always watched the Olympics…when my daughter was little, she called it the ‘lympies…too cute. I am really tired.  But what else do I expect during the Olympics?  My sleep patterns are all askew.  I’m so tired when I get home from work that I fall asleep.  Then I wake up around 11pm and […]

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