30 posts tagged “portland”
THEN
LetItSnow()
First snowfall of the season here in the Portland, Maine area.
It is an unseasonably warm day (upper 50s F) and the sun is kind of shining, so I decided to do a quick lunchtime ride into the Old Port section of Portland. It's a pretty good ride - there is one downhill section where you pick up speed and end up coasting at 30 mph. Then I meandered down Commercial Street and sat for a while. It was nice to let the breeze and sun and random bits of cruise ship tourist conversations wash over me. Then a quick ride back up the hill and over the bay.
Giant cruise ship docked downtown today:
Plus, they had a rocking zombie band.
Here are a bunch more photos.
Zoe kept wanting to sneak past the "real zombies" and eventually worked her way up to kicking the ball. Thanks to the Zombies of Portland for putting this together!
Took another lunchtime ride today to train for the Trek Across Maine. Plus, it was just nice out. Took a brief break to grab a picture of the flying fish:
Not as many bikes out as I was expecting, but with the weather so far this "spring" I guess people still have to put their skiis away and get their bikes out of basements.
I hope the folks who purchased and set 300 lobster free in Portland took some video we'll get to see at some point:
McAleney said that late Monday morning, in the midst of a lobster shortage and record high prices, a group of young men and women came into his New Meadows Lobster Pound in Portland and bought all of his one-claw lobsters -- 300 of them -- and paid $11.25 for each, in cash. That totals nearly $3,400.It wasn't for a lobster bake. The people in the group said they wanted to release the lobsters, and even got McAleney's advice on where to set them free.
We got about a foot of heavy snow overnight.
This is actually a cute book by Mo Williams, who has won various awards for his work for Sesame Street. It will be interesting to see how they stretch it into a musical. The stage adaptation of Go Dog Go was surprisingly entertaining, so I'll be optimistic.
