Homestead Trail

Our conference gives us afternoons off, so I went North to The Homestead Trail along the Androscoggin riverlands with Jon, a postdoc who was in Grenoble at the CEA when I was there and his friend from Harvard. As soon as we got there a strong wind kicked up and we got a face full of dust. The sky was starting to get dark, and within a few minutes the rain started coming down, and thankfully the bugs went away as the lightening and rain really started coming down. In spite of the swampy path, and somewhat underwhelming ruined foundations of houses, the rain hitting the water was spectacular. Unfortunately I only had a digital with me, but here are some of the shots:



We got sidetracked on some ATV trails and ended up slogging through muddy ruts to get back to the road

Then all of a sudden the rain stopped, the sun came out and it looked almost as if the storm had never happened! Shortly afterwards the bugs came out again and orbited our heads in little swarms.