It was nearly the end of May. Jackman, Maine, and the moose were everywhere. We were sharing one of the big cabins. Three bedrooms, lots of bathrooms. Huge kitchen and dining area, suitable for a crowd.
Fireplace, porch. We went moose hunting with our cameras every night for a week. It was our first trip to Jackman, and as it turned out — as a group — it would also be the only one.
Lots of laughter shared, quiet nights in that nearly wild place. Kaity was taking the picture. Left to right, it is Garry, me, Ron, Cherrie, and Sandy. I can truly say “a good time was had by all.” How often can you really say that?
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Great photo! Kudos to Kaiti; she’s learning from one of the best! 🙂
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Thank you, but she has a natural aptitude. I think I’ve learned as much from her as she has from me.
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Great memories… and the greatest way to hunt!
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To us, it’s the only way to hunt. I could not shoot an animal.
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Same here. Which is why I plant food plants for the woodchucks, move plants away from the garden so the deer wont find them, and collar the pear tree rather than shoot the porcupines who colonize it otherwise.
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I probably would have starved in pre-grocery store America.
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yep. We would probably have the oldest living chickens in the country. Names, little feeding trays in the kitchen during the winter, maybe little coats and talon warmers…I did see (accidentally) a chicken beheading when I was very small, and witnessed the unhappy thing running around headless for few minutes before the body caught on…I was so horrified i had nightmares for a week
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Right now, I’m dealing with the aging of our dogs … again. I don’t know if I can keep going through this. It’s really hard.
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You look happy 🙂
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We were all happy. It was a nice week.
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I love the body language, it always says so much more than words alone
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It was a good week. I think we were all relaxed and having a good time. It’s rare.
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Such a nice, happy photo – some great memories.
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I’m having trouble believe it was five years ago. It really does feel like yesterday.
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Good fun was had by all. You don’t get to say that very often. But it’s nice when you do get to be able to say it. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Thanks. It was one of those weeks when it all came together. Nice when it happens. Rare enough!
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It’s interesting how moments in time can be captured like that.
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And that’s the thing about a snapshot — as opposed to a “photograph.” Snapshots have the “freezing the moment in time” quality. When they come out well, they carry with them the essence of something.
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5 years? Wow! We did have a very good time. Nice blend of folks. Lots of laughter.
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I was shocked when I realized it was that long ago. Talk about time flying …
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I love this photo and would love to spend a weekend in a cabin with these folks! What a treasure to find it after all these years. It’s a sign..Why don’t you start engineering a return performance?
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I have been trying to, but someone has always been sick or in the middle of some other crisis … or otherwise engaged. To get the place and the people … it’s so far defeated all my efforts and I keep trying. Maybe NEXT year.
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I know you try very, very hard. Let’s try again next year — with Cherrie and Ron. And, smoke signals to the big chief, hope we’re all okay.
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We would have to get one of the bigger units … not impossible, but not free. And then, try to make sure everyone can actually get there. Sigh.
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Lovely photo and everyone looks so happy. I would say a memory to treasure.
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It was a good time. I wish we could do it again.
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Happy faces and cheerful times says it all. Friends, food and laughter, an ultimate combination. Kaity has learnt to capture moments so well from you both. A picture to be framed !
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The picture was sitting on Cherrie’s camera for all these years. I first saw it just a few weeks ago 🙂
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You and Garry look fantastic together.
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We were relaxed and having fun with friends. What could be better?
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A cabin, friends, laughter and love shared. I doesn’t get better than that.
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No, it doesn’t get better. We are still laughing over some of the stuff that happened there.
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Just remember “What happens at the cabin, stays at the cabin” 🙂 🙂
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I confess! I stole the last raspberry!
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Bad Girl ~!
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And I denied it! Shame on me.
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You can see it in all your faces- comfort, smiles, easiness a good time
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It was one of the rare times when everyone was healthy and could find the time to be there. It hasn’t happened again, but we live in hope.
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Sometimes moments like that are impossible to reinvent. They happen, the gods smile down at you, and the memories are what you get to savor. Nice to dream, nice to remember, but…
(there now, that’s the Yankee in me surfacing, we have a phrase here, the utter downer for everything from perfect haircuts to good weather and beyond: “Cahn’t last, don’t get used to it”)
That is a wonderful picture, btw. No forced smiles, no strange body language =)
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It was a good moment and until a little while ago, I didn’t even know the picture existed. It was just waiting for me, hidden on a chip in a camera … somewhere in time 🙂
It reminds me of my favorite advice to people who are out shooting a scene — “Just shoot. No matter what you think, you’ll never have another moment exactly like this.”
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yep i get those now and then, and I think, oh MY look at that. And yeah, I tend to take pictures of anything in my path–sometimes the last shot of the day is the best one, for some reason. what’s nice, with digital, you can do that, and take the risks and odd shots that you might not if you’re down to two photos left on the roll…
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How true. I remember my first “big chip” — it was 4 GB and I went crazy. I came back from Arizona with almost 5,000 pictures. It took me years to sort through them.
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Bring a bigger chip in January…
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I’ll bring a whole file of chips!
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