Morning light on The Hog Island Audubon Camp in Bremen, Maine.

A couple kayakers pulled up on the grasses at the end of Long Cove at high tide.

West shore trail marker just down the hill from the Bingham cottages.

Eastern shore of Hog Island.

Tough to go to the evening program with early sunsets like this.

Trail bridge at the end of Long Cove connecting the Audubon peninsula with the main 300-acre island.

I didn’t find this amazing stand of Indian pipe until I stopped along the trail for a few minutes to sit and just listen to the Hog Island forest. Are you familiar with forest bathing?

Western shore of Hog Island along the narrows at low tide.

Mabel Loomis Todd’s main camp house built in 1919 stands restored by Friends of Hog Island. In use by the current artist-in-residence.

FOHI volunteer Cindy Cooke shows an era-appropriate door closer the Todd Binghams may have used. Note the rope secured to the door and the pully & weight set back in the door jam. It works!

“Osprey Point” by G. Howard Hilder fills the northern eave of the main camp house.

Mabel Todd called the “spiral nebula” her camp’s insignia. Truth is the “nebulae” are grinding bits David Todd liberated from a granite quarry nearby. Cleaned and painted, one was mounted on each camp building.

Maine coastal islands are rocky with thin soil. Storms can cause blowdowns where natural succession gives a "forest of ferns" some time to thrive in the sun.

Grandson Noah at Family Camp a few years ago. From mud flat discovery to trips on the bay, a good time was had by all!

It was a rainy Joy of Birding week when national recording artist Paul Winter brought his family to Hog Island. Finally the sun broke through for Paul to play his morning anthem, “Sun Singer,” for all waiting on the breakfast bell. Memorable!

First camp director and former National Audubon Society president Carl W. Buchheister made one of his last visits to Hog Island in 1981. I feel blessed to have been present.

In honor of David Peck Todd’s multiple international expeditions to photograph total solar eclipses, Cindy & I headed down to totality in central Tennessee in 2017. Just amazing weather for us, so unlike what David ended up with most times. Look really hard around “10 o’clock” to see Jupiter in the middle of the day. Totality a very cool experience!

I call the image “Called Back,” the epitaph on Emily Dickinson’s headstone in Amherst, Massachusetts. Black & white photograph suitable for framing. Let me know if you’re interested.

The foothill-scape as seen from Pelham Knob, just outside Amherst. Acres of trees on the knob were preserved through the efforts of Mabel Loomis Todd.

The author sporting his Dayton, Ohio, paraphernalia at the doors of the Sterling Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, home of the Todd-Bingham Collection archive.

Grandson Noah (see above) a few years younger having the time of his life riding his trike through the fountain in downtown Dayton.

Blooming dogwood in the front yard of the Cooke Schaefer home in Dayton, Ohio, a place we like to refer to as Wild Grace.

Tom knew himself as a photographer before he considered poet & writer. An image he calls “Trinity,” the objects compose a tall stacks exhibit along the Ohio River in Cincinnati.

Sunrise in the Lowcountry on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.

The Reconciliation Labyrinth at Christ Episcopal Church in downtown Dayton. Good place for quiet meditation.