My father, who died in 1998, was a sailor. This is a story about the past, about him. It’s also a story about the present, because of something he left me. (This story accompanies the photo album of the same name, VWW in Antarctica, at this Shutterfly site.) When I was growing up, I…
Scenes from 2020
Here are some scenes of the summer. The 50th shot is one of Nora attending second grade remotely with Sam as an observer. The next-to-last group includes a couple photos of the pink piano stand I built for Maeve (from an abandoned desk drawer turned upside-down) after she saw what I had built for our…
Comets
Neowise, July 2020 — (On a Mac, Control-Click an image to see an enlargement and then zoom from there.) Hale-Bopp, March 1995
Insane Asylum
A friend recently posted on Facebook a post card depicting the Eastern Maine Insane Asylum in the early 1900s. The utter size of the institution was astonishing. As late as the 1970s it was still called Bangor Mental Health Institute, and many of the buildings depicted were still occupied by the then-mentally ill. The point…
Bread Recipes
Here is a one-page PDF with the bread recipes we make most often in the Breadman Ultimate Plus. It’s our second Breadman machine. We wore one out over about ten years. We’ve had this one for about five so far. The corn bread loaf is the one we do most of the time. The one…
Model Railroads in Maine
Some pieces in my collection… Same case with a different arrangement of equipment. One of the two actual builder plates from Illinois Central 2-8-2 #1944, (someone else did the paint job before me). I also am preparing to create an outdoor railroad (1:20.3 scale) with these locomotives. The Sandy River model is a live steamer…
Christmas Decorations 2017
Beth and I enjoyed ourselves for a couple of days setting up a village on a shelf at eye level and adding lights across the bench-level shelf. This is in our large back living room. There is probably less than 100 watts in all the decorations put together including the tree. We’ve had most of…
Quiet Pool
Poolside, 10 Penny Lane, 16 September 2017, at dusk. A shot glass of maple syrup rests on the driftwood bench.
My YouTube Channel
Here is the link to my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkTKDdkyrDSNEpvpDULSlAQ You may need to click it a couple of times to wake up YouTube, or search for David A. Woodbury and choose the one with this photo. Below is a black bear that crossed our back yard in the middle of the night of July 14-15,…
Eagle Lake & West Branch
Golden Key Senior Center trip to the Allagash locomotives, July 8, 2017. Emma Ireland, Jim Whitney, Bear Nadeau, Tonya Sutherland, and Adria Drinkwater with Matt, Courtney, Alexis, and Logan. David Woodbury, guide.
