Annual peach post
/Edit: this may in fact be the first and only peach post. It is the peach tree itself that is so reliable and obscenely bountiful.
Matinicus Rock
/A few sketches from a few days on a seabird island 23 miles offshore from Rockland, Maine, with Audubon’s Seabird Institute. Featuring: Arctic terns, Atlantic puffins, black guillemots, razorbills, seals, bindweed flowers, bird blinds, granite, a lighthouse, scientist Gemma Clucas, John Drury’s lapstrake dory, and scenes from the Vinalhaven–Rockland ferry.
Along the beach
/Early morning *
Midday
Late afternoon
* Bigleaf lupine, Lupinus polyphyllus, is native to western North America. I was (naively) surprised to see that the word “invasive” is absent from this Wikipedia article about iconic children’s book Miss Rumphius.