April 2022
April 1 Mist over the pond this morning. Went to visit my friends Sam and Annie in Portland, Maine for a couple of days. Sam was keen to show me the round chapel at his church, St. Luke's Cathedral. Once there, I could see why: it's amazing - beautifully polished mahogany and gold leaf ceiling with a skylight (I suspect it has some church-y name). April 2 Saturday morning, we went for a walk in the woods, along the Mill Brook in Westbrook, just outside of Portland. A little later in the spring, alewife run up the stream from Casco Bay; Sam says the stream is thick with them at the peak of the run in late May/early June. And here's what Wikipedia has to say about alewife: "The alewife ( Alosa pseudoharengus ) is an anadromous species of herring found in North America . As an adult it is a marine species found in the northern West Atlantic Ocean, moving into estuaries before swimming upstream to breed in freshwater habitats, but some populations ...