Not quite spring

Time for some old beach photos

Little Harbor Beach (Wareham) and Cape Cod

That's a hacky sack ball

Going,

and coming back

Sniffing this way and that way

let's settle down and get this meeting started.

Cranberries frozen in time

Photos taken by Susan Jennifer Howe. The Howes bought my wife and my old house in Middleboro, Massachusetts. We used to own and farm these cranberry bogs, which were in back of our house.

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Some more photos

An eagle flying above the Willamette River, taken from Riverview dining room at Willamette View, Portland OR

Another perspective

Crows in the morning fog, from my house

To print and frame or not: Photos from my archives

I still have some wall space to hang photos enlarged to 13 by 19.  However, when I look over my favorites, it is hard to decide which ones I want to display. What do you think?

Previous photos: WillamatteView perspectives  Studies in light and shadow

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Near my old house, Middleboro, MA

View from my old house

Eel Pond, Woods Hole, Cape Cod, MA

Ell Pond with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in background

I forget where in Massachusetts these were taken.

National Seashore, Cape Cod

Storm clouds over the bogs

View from my old house.

Lake Michigan

Small town near SACRAMENTO

Eel Pond, Woods Hole

Below: Previous posts

From the kayak on Buzzard's Bay

Willamette View Campus Perspectives		Hal Brown		0Comment count	5View count	1/29/15
	Shirtsleeves in JanuaryWhile I can't say today was a respite from a harsh winter (considering the blizzard blanketing the northeast); the springlike weather was a welcome chance to take Mac and Duff (my Westies) for a walk around the Willamette View campus. Here are some photos.  Below: An early start on renewing the River Walk path where the trees were cut down.  Below: You can see where the		Hal Brown		0Comment count	34View count	1/25/15
	My Hawaii photos, from paper, 1959I spent the entire summer here when I was 15. My aunt's Studebaker convertible. That's my aunt in our backyard.  Above three - my Aunt Grace's house above a garage on the end of Kalakaua at Coconut. A WWII bunker near the Doris Duke estate. Waikiki From the air on arrival. Unbeknownst to me, I took a photo of my aunt's house, next to the unfinished  condo. Dia		Hal Brown		0Comment count	3View count	1/23/15
	Just a few miscellaneous photos around Willamette View taken this week: from berries and balls to the waterfall (which only flows when there's be a lot of rain). click to enlarge below		Hal Brown		0Comment count	4View count	1/19/15
	An early website that changed the cranberry industry Cranberry Stressline LinkSo, if you've been wondering about my connection to cranberries - besides having grown them for 25 years.... Even before the cranberry industry collapsed and began making the news, my late wife Betty had been selected by Ocean Spray as a spokeswoman. She had a two page profile in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (a full		Hal Brown		0Comment count	11View count	1/12/15
	BettyNov. 16, 1944 - Jan. 11, 2010 "It doesn't get any better than this." The Goat Photos here		Hal Brown		0Comment count	7View count	1/11/15
	Now, for something differentIn honor of the new year52 photographs A more or less random compilation of photos, most of which I haven't posted on the blogs. They aren't my best, however some are interesting or pretty to (click to enlarge) look at, and all can be used by anyone as screen savers. They are all taken near where I lived in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Some are in Boston, the Cape Cod Can		Hal Brown		0Comment count	14View count	1/10/15
	More goats at Willamette ViewEating their favorite delicacy, blackberries, for yet another day. On the banks of the muddy Willamette River in Portland Oregon, 20 goats make fast work converting a tangle of prickly blackberry bushes to organic fertilizer. Every goat has a name. I rather doubt there's a "Billy," or even a "Gruff." I'll have to ask the Goat GirlCasey Brewer West Side Goat Girl LLC 36		Hal Brown		0Comment count	11View count	1/8/15
	The goats have come to Willamette View...(by Hal Brown) .....where they are voraciously munching away the tangle of blackberry bushes, in between post-prandial napping.The goats are fromThe Goat Girlhttp://www.sauviegoats.com No wonder the goats seem so happy: according to Goat Girl, blackberries are a favorite with goats, Goat Girl FAQS the photos are mine.Click to enlarge		Hal Brown		0Comment count	34View count	1/7/15
	On life with death and dying in a CCRCAll of the ads I've seen for CCRC facilities like the one where I have lived for six months emphasize the joys of living in them. This online ad is from Rose Villa, the CCRC next to Willamette View where I live. It could be from Match.com. There's nothing wrong with that. But there's much more to the culture of living among people in the last quarter of th		Hal Brown		0Comment count	15View count	12/17/14
	Since moving here six months ago, like all the residents when they first make this extraordinary life style change, I have been adapting to a way of life I never anticipated experiencing. While publicity for CCRC facilities don't make a point of this, one of the primary benefits of living in one, as a couple or single, is that they help you make the best of the time you have left to live. Consider		Hal Brown		0Comment count	27View count	12/15/14
	For more photos, go to my Facebook page. On the left sidebar go to photos and then to photo albums. I took the photo here in a Washington state birding park. It is an inch long peeper. It is one of the photos I enlarged to 13" by 19" to frame and hang in the house.		Hal Brown		0Comment count	11View count	10/28/14
	Here at Willamette View..... with a long shot taken from Elk Island.		Hal Brown		0Comment count	9View count	8/19/14
	I packed up my car, and Mac, Duff and I made our way across the country to relocate in Portland, Oregon. Since June 5, 2014, we've been living in our new house, a duplex in a CCRC on the bluffs above the Willamette River.		Hal Brown		0Comment count	16View count	7/15/14
	You'll find it almost impossible to find my blogs now since the GateHouse Media papers that carry them have been modernized with a new look. Unfortunately getting the blogger section online where they can be found has the lowest priority. We all should be listed in the Opinions > Columns section. My most recent blog, however, was published in some 150 GateHouse Media publications in the entertain		Hal Brown		0Comment count	20View count	2/8/14
	Just a reminder to keep up with my newspaper blog: The Eclectic Digest which is new once or twice a week.		Hal Brown		1Comment count	108View count	11/17/13
	The most recent blogs at		Hal Brown		0Comment count	80View count	10/20/13
	Announcing "The Eclectic Digest"Click to enlargeGo to link You can call this a blog or a column. The Enterprise and Patriot Ledger call it both depending on whether you look on their editorial page or their community blog page.   I now have a chance to write about anything and everything that suits me, and of course thatI think readers will find riveting.  These two dailies cover the area south		Hal Brown		0Comment count	27View count	9/4/13
	Margaret E. (Oakland) Korpinen, 93, longtime Middleboro resident, died peacefully Aug. 4, 2013, at Oak Hill Nursing Home. She was the beloved wife of Vaino A. Korpinen for 71 years. Margaret was born in South Carver, daughter of the late Konsta and Betsy Oakland. She was a graduate of Middleboro High School, Class of 1938, and attended Williams Business School, in Brockton. Margaret worked in the		Hal Brown		0Comment count	19View count	8/6/13
	Photo by Hal Brown using panorama function on iPhone 5, Aug. 1, 2013, view from Castle Rock, Marblehead, MA. (Click image to enlarge)		Hal Brown		0Comment count	20View count	8/3/13
	For Internet GeeksAbove: Google in 2000, click to enlargeMy Tawdry Affair with Google!A brief history of "Hal Brown" online and a lesson in how search engines work minus the algorithms In the early days of the Internet the primary search engines included AltaVista, LookSmart, InfoSeek, Excite and YaHoo. Google changed the entire online search landscape.  Back when I had several websites ( Cranberr		Hal Brown		0Comment count	83View count	7/28/13
	Seriously Hal From April to the end of June I was foreman of the county grand jury. Even with what I learned about crime from my work both as a psychotherapist and an auxiliary policy officer, this was an amazing eye-openning experience. I heard testimony from the police, witnesses and victims in just about every major crime you read about in The Enterprise or saw reported on the local news. This		Hal Brown		0Comment count	25View count	7/26/13
	Storm Preparations		Hal Brown		0Comment count	20View count	10/29/12
	Old Joe and the crew harvest berries in back of my house.

Willamette View Campus Perspectives

Hal Brown

0Comment count

5View count

1/29/15

Shirtsleeves in JanuaryWhile I can't say today was a respite from a harsh winter (considering the blizzard blanketing the northeast); the springlike weather was a welcome chance to take Mac and Duff (my Westies) for a walk around the Willamette View campus. Here are some photos.  Below: An early start on renewing the River Walk path where the trees were cut down.  Below: You can see where the

Hal Brown

0Comment count

34View count

1/25/15

My Hawaii photos, from paper, 1959I spent the entire summer here when I was 15. My aunt's Studebaker convertible. That's my aunt in our backyard.  Above three - my Aunt Grace's house above a garage on the end of Kalakaua at Coconut. A WWII bunker near the Doris Duke estate. Waikiki From the air on arrival. Unbeknownst to me, I took a photo of my aunt's house, next to the unfinished  condo. Dia

Hal Brown

0Comment count

3View count

1/23/15

Just a few miscellaneous photos around Willamette View taken this week: from berries and balls to the waterfall (which only flows when there's be a lot of rain). click to enlarge below

Hal Brown

0Comment count

4View count

1/19/15

An early website that changed the cranberry industry Cranberry Stressline LinkSo, if you've been wondering about my connection to cranberries - besides having grown them for 25 years.... Even before the cranberry industry collapsed and began making the news, my late wife Betty had been selected by Ocean Spray as a spokeswoman. She had a two page profile in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine (a full

Hal Brown

0Comment count

11View count

1/12/15

BettyNov. 16, 1944 - Jan. 11, 2010 "It doesn't get any better than this." The Goat Photos here

Hal Brown

0Comment count

7View count

1/11/15

Now, for something differentIn honor of the new year52 photographs A more or less random compilation of photos, most of which I haven't posted on the blogs. They aren't my best, however some are interesting or pretty to (click to enlarge) look at, and all can be used by anyone as screen savers. They are all taken near where I lived in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Some are in Boston, the Cape Cod Can

Hal Brown

0Comment count

14View count

1/10/15

More goats at Willamette ViewEating their favorite delicacy, blackberries, for yet another day. On the banks of the muddy Willamette River in Portland Oregon, 20 goats make fast work converting a tangle of prickly blackberry bushes to organic fertilizer. Every goat has a name. I rather doubt there's a "Billy," or even a "Gruff." I'll have to ask the Goat GirlCasey Brewer West Side Goat Girl LLC 36

Hal Brown

0Comment count

11View count

1/8/15

The goats have come to Willamette View...(by Hal Brown) .....where they are voraciously munching away the tangle of blackberry bushes, in between post-prandial napping.The goats are fromThe Goat Girlhttp://www.sauviegoats.com No wonder the goats seem so happy: according to Goat Girl, blackberries are a favorite with goats, Goat Girl FAQS the photos are mine.Click to enlarge

Hal Brown

0Comment count

34View count

1/7/15

 On life with death and dying in a CCRCAll of the ads I've seen for CCRC facilities like the one where I have lived for six months emphasize the joys of living in them. This online ad is from Rose Villa, the CCRC next to Willamette View where I live. It could be from Match.com. There's nothing wrong with that. But there's much more to the culture of living among people in the last quarter of th

Hal Brown

0Comment count

15View count

12/17/14

Since moving here six months ago, like all the residents when they first make this extraordinary life style change, I have been adapting to a way of life I never anticipated experiencing. While publicity for CCRC facilities don't make a point of this, one of the primary benefits of living in one, as a couple or single, is that they help you make the best of the time you have left to live. Consider

Hal Brown

0Comment count

27View count

12/15/14

For more photos, go to my Facebook page. On the left sidebar go to photos and then to photo albums. I took the photo here in a Washington state birding park. It is an inch long peeper. It is one of the photos I enlarged to 13" by 19" to frame and hang in the house.

Hal Brown

0Comment count

11View count

10/28/14

Here at Willamette View..... with a long shot taken from Elk Island.

Hal Brown

0Comment count

9View count

8/19/14

I packed up my car, and Mac, Duff and I made our way across the country to relocate in Portland, Oregon. Since June 5, 2014, we've been living in our new house, a duplex in a CCRC on the bluffs above the Willamette River.

Hal Brown

0Comment count

16View count

7/15/14

You'll find it almost impossible to find my blogs now since the GateHouse Media papers that carry them have been modernized with a new look. Unfortunately getting the blogger section online where they can be found has the lowest priority. We all should be listed in the Opinions > Columns section. My most recent blog, however, was published in some 150 GateHouse Media publications in the entertain

Hal Brown

0Comment count

20View count

2/8/14

Just a reminder to keep up with my newspaper blog: The Eclectic Digest which is new once or twice a week.

Hal Brown

1Comment count

108View count

11/17/13

The most recent blogs at

Hal Brown

0Comment count

80View count

10/20/13

Announcing "The Eclectic Digest"Click to enlargeGo to link You can call this a blog or a column. The Enterprise and Patriot Ledger call it both depending on whether you look on their editorial page or their community blog page.   I now have a chance to write about anything and everything that suits me, and of course thatI think readers will find riveting.  These two dailies cover the area south 

Hal Brown

0Comment count

27View count

9/4/13

Margaret E. (Oakland) Korpinen, 93, longtime Middleboro resident, died peacefully Aug. 4, 2013, at Oak Hill Nursing Home. She was the beloved wife of Vaino A. Korpinen for 71 years. Margaret was born in South Carver, daughter of the late Konsta and Betsy Oakland. She was a graduate of Middleboro High School, Class of 1938, and attended Williams Business School, in Brockton. Margaret worked in the

Hal Brown

0Comment count

19View count

8/6/13

Photo by Hal Brown using panorama function on iPhone 5, Aug. 1, 2013, view from Castle Rock, Marblehead, MA. (Click image to enlarge)

Hal Brown

0Comment count

20View count

8/3/13

For Internet GeeksAbove: Google in 2000, click to enlargeMy Tawdry Affair with Google!A brief history of "Hal Brown" online and a lesson in how search engines work minus the algorithms In the early days of the Internet the primary search engines included AltaVista, LookSmart, InfoSeek, Excite and YaHoo. Google changed the entire online search landscape.  Back when I had several websites ( Cranberr

Hal Brown

0Comment count

83View count

7/28/13

Seriously Hal From April to the end of June I was foreman of the county grand jury. Even with what I learned about crime from my work both as a psychotherapist and an auxiliary policy officer, this was an amazing eye-openning experience. I heard testimony from the police, witnesses and victims in just about every major crime you read about in The Enterprise or saw reported on the local news. This 

Hal Brown

0Comment count

25View count

7/26/13

Storm Preparations

Hal Brown

0Comment count

20View count

10/29/12

Old Joe and the crew harvest berries in back of my house.