Steady, fine rain brought darkness to Naskeag Harbor yesterday, Friday the 13th. At first, the mood was somewhere between melancholy and dreamy.
Then, six common eiders swam by grumbling loudly with heads hunched into the spray. Throughout, “Tarrfish” lay calmly at her mooring and the house on the hill stared as usual. Oh yes, almost unseen in this image, a wet herring gull flew low and heavily through the rain to land on Naskeag Point’s sand spit and wait things out there. (Image taken in Brooklin, Maine, on January 13, 2023.)