4 December 2021 (beach)

high tide

the last bit of beach

pocked with deer tracks

3 December 2021 (Christmas by the Sea)

harbor town holiday

Santa arrives

by lobster boat

2 December 2021 (rain)

rain instead of snow

he never remembers

his dreams

1 December 2021 (Venus)

deep blue twilight

above the Main Street lights

Venus

30 November 2021 (crow)

flying straight

down the highway

the usual crow

29 November 2021 (spitting)

spitting snow . . .

the start of another

long Russian novel

28 November 2021 (Acadia)

low arc of the sun

the rosy glow

of Acadia granite

for Brad, Acadia National Park’s 2021 Artist-in-Residence

27 November 2021 (first snow)

first snow . . .

the red squirrel’s tracks

skirt the trail

26 November 2021 (deer)

in the far field

a deer grazing

into dusk

25 November 2021 (new ice)

new ice forming

along the bog’s edge

thin calls of a kinglet

24 November 2021 (harbor)

awaiting the freeze

the inner harbor

dead calm