February’s first significant snowfall ended on Wednesday after having brightened our area nicely. This ITRP may be the first of a series of intermittent posts on that beautification. Above, you see an old workshop snuggling amid a stand of white birch. In the early 1900s, a wood carver made duck decoys there.
Here’s the Brooklin Boat Yard’s pier shed perched over Center Harbor; it replaced a much older equipment shed that was ruined by a nor’easter in 2024:
Below, you’ll see a little gray boat shed that seems to like hiding among a crowd of big, tough spruce trees. That shed was built in 2024 by a neighbor to store a small trimaran in winter.
(Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 11, 2026.)