Duck and cover kids, you’re about to be photo bombed.

You have been warned.

As usual, I took a truck load of pictures during our week vacation in Maine.  When I got home and looked at them I was surprised at what I’d taken.  There were more pictures of things than of people.  Everyone else who came equipped with a camera took more pictures of people than things.  Maybe subconsciously I was trying to fill the void?

I don’t know.  Anyway, there was an Air Show in Portsmouth, NH on the day we left home so we detoured through New Hampshire and drove across the Kancamagus Highway.  We’ve taken that road before when leaf peeping in the fall, but there is more to it than that.  There are the rivers.  In this case, the Swift River.  There are hiking trails and such along the highway that lead to great views of the river, including some waterfalls.  Parking was tough so we were only able to stop at one spot.  I think this is called the lower falls, but I am probably wrong. 

I did take pictures of Jen and the kids during this stop, but there was an ankle injury that scared the shit out of me so we didn’t stay for long.  I did get a bunch of cool pictures of the water though, and I will now bury you in them.

Enjoy!

The water is so clear, and the sun is so bright, that it looks gold.  I love that.

The water looks nice and clean, but it was also cold.  Jen and the kids dipped their feet in and said it was freezing.

Since meeting my beautiful wife Jennifer, and traveling around various mountainous places in New Hampshire, I have come to love waterfalls.  Who woulda thunk it?

And finally we have this:

There were a lot of people there.  I did a good job making it look like we had the joint to ourselves, didn’t I?  Many of the people were swimming.  Some were just walking around like we were.  We have already talked about going back again to hit the stops we missed.  I think I could have spent a week right there, hanging out on the rocks and playing in the river.

Okay, here we are performing another test on the function that I said I wasn’t going to use!  WOOHOO!

This is a test.  This is only a test.

I wasn’t going to do this, but here I am doing it.

The Blog is now linked to Google+.  Does this post cross?

Last night was a certifiable crappy night.  Today is a certifiable crappy day.  This crap had better stop, or I am going to end up with a certifiable crappy week.

Let’s let the rock&roll cheer us up…

Yes indeed, power failures suck.

Okay everyone, what’s the wost part of any long vacation?

Say it with me…

Going back to work!

(especially if the first day back is a Monday)

Wow, do I have a ton of stuff on my already full work plate.  Boy-howdy!

So did I mention that our vacation home last week was practically right on the spot where Stephen King’s story The Mist takes place?  Apparently, big chunks of The Dark Tower take place there too!  We were swimming in literary history!  WOOHOO!

I DON’T WANNA GO BACK TO WORK!!!!
I DON’T WANNA GO BACK TO WORK!!!!
I DON’T WANNA GO BACK TO WORK!!!!
I DON’T WANNA GO BACK TO WORK!!!!
I DON’T WANNA GO BACK TO WORK!!!!

Okay, the pics on my Flickr account that were missing their hi-res versions are now fixed.  That sorta sucked.

We’ve driven along the Kancamangus highway a bunch of times and I still have no clue how to spell it.

We generally just stick to the leaf peeping and don’t venture off the road other than the scenic pull outs.

On the way to our Maine vacation we detoured around route 95 and found ourselves on the Kanc. We tried stopping at a couple of locations to see what goes on off of the road but the parking was always nuts. We managed to stop at one spot where we could cool our heels in the Swift River. At least I think it was the Swift River, who knows.

Anyway… we HAVE to go back and hit a few more of those places before the summer ends. Consider it a mission. It was gorgeous there!

So apparently when you upload from iPhoto to Flickr, it makes multiple passes on each picture? Because when I uploaded the first 300 or so pics it took about half an hour for them to show on Flickr, but none of them were the full resolution. It took almost four hours for all of those to show up. Which means I have to re-upload the last three or four sets. Most of those pics are low res. stupid thing.