Blackman Stream widens out above the Leonards Mill sawmill due to a small dam that routes water for the water powered saw mill.
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley has a variety of exhibits intended “to preserve, celebrate and educate people about the sustainable forest culture of Maine.”
http://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org
October 1, 2022
Continued from Leonards Mills: Shingle Mill, 1 of 2
Once he has the shingle in his hand the mill worker cuts one edge off…
…flips the shingle over…
…cuts the second edge off…
then flips the shingle into a pile.
Meanwhile the next shingle is ready…
Just to the left you can see a building sided with cedar shingles from this demonstration mill.
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I was fortunate that during my September visit the Maine Forest and Logging Museum was having Living History Days.
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley has a variety of exhibits intended “to preserve, celebrate and educate people about the sustainable forest culture of Maine.”
http://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org
October 1, 2022
Wooden shingles have long been used in New England due to the abundance of wood and its durability. Ingenuity and mechanical innovations led to commercial production equipment like this Shingle Mill on display at the Maine Forest and Logging Museum.
A short length of cedar is fixed into a mechanism that carries the wood to the saw.
The mill worker takes each shingle…
… in a well practiced movement…
…lifts the shingle away from the saw blade.
A wider view:
This mill has an amazing number of moving parts.
I was fortunate that during my September visit the Maine Forest and Logging Museum was having Living History Days.
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley has a variety of exhibits intended “to preserve, celebrate and educate people about the sustainable forest culture of Maine.”
http://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org
October 1, 2022
I was fortunate that during my September visit the Maine Forest and Logging Museum was having Living History Days.
I’m not keen on taking photographs of strangers and this was a well attended event so my images were somewhat restricted.
One of the highlights of the museum is the water powered saw mill which sits on Blackman Stream. The smoke up the stream was from the encampment of the trapper reenactor, who was cooking stew.
Next is the downstream view from that little bridge by the smoke in the first picture, with the covered bridge to the left and the mill works in the middle. It was a grey, dull day and not much fall foliage change; these few pops of orange was about it.
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley has a variety of exhibits intended “to preserve, celebrate and educate people about the sustainable forest culture of Maine.”
http://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org
October 1, 2022
On my recent trip to Maine I was amazed to witness some warbler migration. I grew up near where these were taken and don’t remember ever seeing anything like the hundreds of birds I saw in the vicinity including a variety of warblers and finches.
The mowed lawn seen above was backed by a field of “weeds” that were bursting with all sorts of seeds and flying insects–a song bird buffet.
I had not taken my long lens on this trip and could not get close enough to most of them with the 18-200mm; this one fellow seemed a bit more curious.
This particular bird is much more colorful than the Palm Warbler I had photographed a few days before in Charleston, SC.
ID by Cornell Lab’s Merlin App
Penobscot County, Maine
September 16, 2022
From my recent trip to Maine
Pleasant River, Brownville, Maine
September 29, 2022
Once again this year my visit to see my folks in Maine was about a week too early to partake in serious leaf peeping. Dry conditions most of the summer throughout the state are expected to have a muting effect on leaf colors this fall so I may not have really missed out.
September 29, 2022
A classic Maine scene with just a hint of fall color. My visit was about ten days too early to partake in leaf peeping.
September 28, 2021
Lines created by the weathered planks in the siding, water wheel and fence of this mill go in every direction.
The water wheel is a work of art as well as a mechanical feat that powers a working saw.
Approaching the mill from the other side of the stream gives a broader view of the building’s colors and textures of the siding.
The Maine Forest and Logging Museum in Bradley has a variety of exhibits intended “to preserve, celebrate and educate people about the sustainable forest culture of Maine.”
http://www.maineforestandloggingmuseum.org
August 25, 2017. Click on any photo for larger view.
