I have recently gone to work as the Executive Director of the Maine Professional Guides Association. Don’t worry its part time, I am still guiding all summer and fall. I worked for the MPGA in the 1990’s as their first lobbyist and served as president and secretary of the organization before that. In the interim I have worked for a variety of conservation organizations while guiding at Maine Outdoors and four years at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife.
Early this morning (it was still dark) I was in the kitchen making coffee when my morning newspaper was delivered. We had a hard rain overnight and I thought that it was still raining lightly. I looked out the window and at first thought boy those are big raindrops, then wow the wind is really blowing those raindrops around and then it clicked. Snowing hard, big wet flakes.
The last couple of mornings have been cold and in fact last nights frost lingered in the shade until nearly noon today. The ice has started to form in the shallows. Winter is definitely coming even though the last few days have been very sunny and mild. The falling temperatures and cooling water have the beavers working overtime. I noticed this morning where one cut a few small trees and dragged them across the road on my way to Augusta.
