Places one finds!
If you look hard enough..................you see things.
While looking for lighthouses to photograph in Maine....I found this old boathouse at Burnt Coat Harbor. Just the name of the place is enough to conjure up all sorts of "Back woods, bay side images in the mind". Let alone the fog which just made all those mental images just that much more real. And then there was the old oil shed for the lighthouse.
Can you feel the quiet? The dampness of the air and the darkness of the surrounding pines. Solitude! Imagine having to work on the lighthouse under four feet of snow or ringing the fog bell by hand because the mechanism had broken down just after you got to sleep. Or trekking out to this small building that housed the lamp oil in the dead of a pitch black night. The oil was kept separated from the tower and keeper's dwelling to lessen chances of damaging fires. Neat stuff!
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