Fair posters

Some of my favorite recent Common Ground Fair posters. This year's fair begins on September 24th.

New Reads.

Good Maine history. Will follow-up with reviews down the line.

Maine Island Lovers

Thanks Okkervil River, for this: (Via Paste)

I want to go to Norway

Joel just sent this to me. It's sick. (Via Korduroy)

gratuitous ocean shots

school work has been piling on, and as such i've been slowly dredging up older photographs and organizing and tagging them as a means of avoiding responsibility. here are some from acadia national park:

'i' and 'o' can be inconveniently close to one another on a keyboard and have significant ramifications if inadvertently confused. in other words: shot to shit.

see also: unfortunate proximity of 'd' and 'f' should you be referring to common water fowl in haste.

three noses by thos sharpe

This caught my eye, and led me here.


via corduroy

Custom fitted.

I’ve been pestering my buddy Matt about designing us a new header since Phoresia posted shots of the little point break in our old header actually going off. If you recall, it was shooting off nice little peelers, but nothing compared to what it does when the swell hits.

Anyway, I finally got around to telling him what we wanted, and as he’s doing a February “thing-a-day” project, it slotted in beautifully.

I think this one was day 6 of the portfolio. Check out some of the others:






Check out more of his work here, or his flickr gallery here.

Around town.

I haven't been in the ocean since...September, which I guess, makes me a non-observant surfer.

I just picked up a normal lens, and during the school year I can see the Atlantic from my front yard. The view looks something like this:

 

Here are some more:

White Daisy Passing

"I'm going down to sleep on the bottom of the ocean
'cause I couldn't let go when the water hit the setting sun"




A gorgeous tune by one of my all-time favorite songwriters.

Missing Home.

another Thanksgiving

come and gone, winter

threatening with her

brittle crystal wonderland

Maine roots

longing to be back

on familiar soil 

This hit home.

Via PTLDME

Three Hundred and Fifty [Day]

350 Day [Oct 24th]

Downtown Wolfville, NS

South American Jamming

Via The Cleanest Line

Would someone buy me a mandolin, please?

"Higgi-mea"

My friend Rob, killing it at Higgins on his SUP. Beaut of a shot. Photo stolen from Eugene Cole.

Via Huge Surf

Too much pun.

 These boys have life figured out.

http://lobsterjoke.com/

Life and some other things.

If we're gonna call ourselves a surf-ish blog, we should probably try to post when the waves are flat, but apparently that's not how we operate. This weekend is looking like some of the best swell here in New England in a long time. Good wind, long period (15-16 secs!), and a heckuva lotta wave. Nova Scotia might get entirely swamped. The whole peninsula covered! With any luck one of us will have a story to tell after Sunday and Monday. Check back soon.