Of Schooners and things

Friday afternoon there was a schooner race from Camden or Rockport down to Freeport, passing by Rockland.  I didn't get to the breakwater early enough to get the best photos but here's what I did get:

 The field passing by, low tide at the breakwater in the foreground

3 masted schooner passing Owl's Head Lighthouse

3 masted schooner passing the Rockland Breakwater Light








Yesterday afternoon and this afternoon there are "schooner open houses" and it is possible to "tour" several of the schooners at their docks.  We hope to do that here in Rockland this afternoon, after helping prep and serve at the soup kitchen.

Yesterday we went kayaking from South Bristol with a group organized by the Pemaquid Watershed Association paddlers - out in the ocean and around a small island, where we stopped and had lunch.  As we launched, I spied a luna moth that appeared to be dead, floating in the water.  I fished it out of the water with my paddle and layed it on the deck of my kayak.  Gradually in the warm sun, its wings and antenna dried and it began to move.  It wasn't dead.  Meanwhile we paddled further and further from shore out toward the island.  By the time we closed in on the island, it was crawling all around the desk of my kayak, my water bottle, my hand.  When we landed on the island for lunch, I carried it up to the vegetation and released it  I hope it lived.

A beautiful - if very warm - day yesterday.  Promising to be the same today.

Thinking of Bradley Manning in solitary confinement, facing life imprisonment, even death, not seeing schooners on the wide blue sea.  Remembering Daniel Elsberg.  Trying to imagine me in his/their place....

Peace.