A most stylish visit to the feeder (in slow-motion).

A black-capped chickadee glides up to our window for a snack.


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Unchained

The perfect gift for your Dad is in our shop! Old iron anchor chain from the briny depths of Davy Jones' locker. And of course it goes perfectly with a Coco Nuit candle....

http://warymeyers.bigcartel.com/

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Looking at houses....

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Maine-ly Manly

Our smoky, woodsy, Mainely Manly candle, with hand-painted gold leaf stump and axe, ready for gift giving! Pictured here on the off-cut scraps of our Prouve farm table.

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Maine Island Rocks

We went out to an island and brought back some cool rocks for you.

In the shop!

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Old Orchard Beach

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Old Orchard Beach this morning
We threw the clam back to live another day

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Bowl, 1947

New in the shop, a great little black clay bowl signed JC Marsh, 47. Coincidentally the same year that Miracle on 34th St. came out...

Over the next few weeks we'll be stocking the shop with perfect gifts like this, so keep checking!

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Driving by a Marcel Breuer house, Cape Elizabeth, Maine

1949 - The Arnold and Selma Potter House, Cape Elizabeth ME.  Although the house has since been added onto (a bedroom wing) and the materials stripped back to bare wood from its original coated surface, the house's form remains intact. Today, the screens are closed in with glass. 

http://www.trianglemodernisthouses.com/breuer.htm

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Corvette Summer

Maine boatbuilder Stevie Johnson's Corvette boat.

Nicely matched to last year's project, the Van boat:

and the mangy tidewater dog that looks like she'd be at home on either one:

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Game of Thronesian Doorstops

and I just now noticed the Jawa...

John's Snow & Neally axe heads/objects/simple machines in our shop.

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Ah fixed that chaiah

Yard sale: 1962 Eames chair from an old Mainer estate with then-practical-/now-frustrating drain hole drilled into the seat.
I really don't mind though- it adds context and reminds you that these things were not made to be precious. Plus now we can keep it outside.

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Happy Memorial Day

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Best backyard in town

Serge Chermayeff's Payson House, or "Thornhurst"(1952), in Falmouth Maine.

Photos via the always entertaining Bing Maps Birds-eye view.

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Big Bird and The Portland Symphony Orchestra, 1980

I wonder what this was all about.

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Close to the Edge

Looking over the sides of Mackworth Island this morning.

The middle view is like looking down onto treetops, until you see the water.
Or like looking down to an epicly flooded forest. Or a Hipgnosis album cover.

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this morning on the island

Long Island, Maine

related:

Lobster painting from a few years ago

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Creative Playthings Rocking Beauty Hobby Horse

Vintage Creative Playthings "Rocking Beauty" Hobby Horse amongst the goods at an old-timey auction house out in Maine the other night. Designed by Gloria Caranica in 1964, it's in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum. And now in the permanent collection of our son's room. ...And in the permanent collection of the auction house is this amazing Wacky Races-looking Edwardian gent.

related: http://vintageforkids.blogspot.com/2010/12/design-for-kids-bruxelles.html
http://daddytypes.com/2006/05/12/wild_creative_playthings_hobby_horses.php
http://warymeyers.blogspot.com/2011/01/fletchers-room.html

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Saul Steinberg's Views from New York

Saul Steinberg's famous New Yorker cover from 1976, "A View of the World from 9th Avenue", 

and above, "Olde New York", his rare view to the East.

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Labor Day Weekend!

on Long Island, Maine.

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