ACADIA 2012

View west from atop Cadillac Mountain (formerly known as Green Mountain) looking across granite knoll with green lichen. Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine, September

Late Purple Aster (Spreading Aster) Symphyotrichum patens (Aster patens) a late summer to fall indigenous wildflower in Maine

This is a pool of rain water in a pocket in ledge with green lichens. The photo was taken on top of Cadillac Mountain at Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Doesn't it look like the head of a deer or dog?

Dwarf Cinquefoil growing along the crack lines of pink granite encrusted with green lichen, Cadillac Mountain, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine, September

Club moss with dried leaves, Acadia National Park, September. Club moss is very common in Maine woodlands where conditions are consistently damp. It prefers shade.

Quaking aspen trunks at Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine in September, study in black and white. These are Populus tremuloides, or "Quaking Aspens" just like the aspens that make Aspen, Colorado so gold and lovely in September. Though they look like individual trees, they are actually a colony which grows from a connected root system. Some aspen colonies are regarded as the larges living thing on earth!

, Mushrooms and fungi of Maine

Late Purple Aster (Spreading Aster) Symphyotrichum patens (Aster patens) a late summer to fall indigenous wildflower in Maine

Thunder Hole, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Maine, September

waterfall after rain cascading down granite rock face with blue sky and native cedar trees, Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island Maine

Trenton, Maine, autumn foliage scenery in rain

Otter Cliffs, Acadia National Park area, Mount Desert Island, Maine in September, an iconic popular tourist destination. This is classic Maine bold, rocky coast with the Atlantic Ocean lapping the granite boulders of the shore line with stately spruce trees.

Thunder Hole, named for the loud booming made when water is forced with in coming tide upward and through the narrow gut of rocks, a famous feature of Acadia National Park area, Mount Desert Island, Maine in September, an iconic popular tourist destination

Thunder Hole, named for the loud booming made when water is forced with in coming tide upward and through the narrow gut of rocks, a famous feature of Acadia National Park area, Mount Desert Island, Maine in September, an iconic popular tourist destination

Thunder Hole, named for the loud booming made when water is forced with in coming tide upward and through the narrow gut of rocks, a famous feature of Acadia National Park area, Mount Desert Island, Maine in September, an iconic popular tourist destination. I call this image "The Balancing Man."

Acadia National Park looking west from Cadillac Mountain across Eagle Lake with fall foliage in a rain storm, Mount Desert Island Maine, autumn scenic

Acadia National Park looking west from Cadillac Mountain across Eagle Lake with fall foliage in a rain storm, Mount Desert Island Maine, autumn scenic

Thunder Hole, named for the loud booming made when water is forced with in coming tide upward and through the narrow gut of rocks, a famous feature of Acadia National Park area, Mount Desert Island, Maine in September, an iconic popular tourist destination