On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.
From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.
JanieM
With this set, I leave the backstory to the imagination of the viewer.
Cat on a Cold Stone Wall
Destiny Machine
Into the Woods
Out of the Woods
City Hall with Fir Trees
Escapee
Scattering
Good Night, Moon
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sab
That cat looks cold.
p.a.
I love the 2nd shot; it reminds me of the table-top soothsayer machine in ‘the other’ William Shatner Twilight Zone episode, “Nick of Time”.
eclare
Love the captions! That first photo is a Robert Frost poem come to life.
zhena gogolia
Lovely.
Reboot
Love the echinacea pic–a plant’s gonna do what a plant’s gonna do.
Torrey
Great pictures! Mainers have (and need) some seriously steep roofs! What’s the first picture? It looks like it might be an inn or restaurant of some sort.
JanieM
@Torrey: That building isn’t an inn or anything, just a 3-unit dwelling.
And yes about the roofs. You’ve got to let that snow slide off or get in trouble. Sometimes you get in trouble anyhow….. It’s not uncommon in an especially snowy winter to see people up on the roof, shoveling.
Fraud Guy
I swear that house looks like the one from What About Bob?
JR in WV
We spent a couple of weeks in Maine years ago, first week at Poland Mining Camp, where a small group of old gemstone miners take visiting rockhounds and PhD students around to old gemstone mines in the woods of Maine, where Tourmaline, Topaz, Aquamarine and more exotic crystalline minerals have been mined for over a century now. We were allowed to visit various quarries, each with their own rules.
Some places we were only allowed to dig in the dumps for lost or overlooked crystals, other places we could break hard bedrock to search for a pocket full of crystals. Then we had to leave the mining camp as a bunch from the Smithsonian was coming in for a 2 week symposium on the types of mineral deposits common in Maine (ETA: pegmatites), so we drove up the coast clear into Canada where we visited the Roosevelt summer home.
Maine is a bigger state then it looks on a map!
Your excellent photos bring back some great memories of that trip!
JanieM
@JR in WV: Thanks! — And yes, Maine is bigger than you might expect for a New England state. :-)
I’ve been to the Roosevelt home twice and found it very moving.