More Urban Snowboarding: Benji Greenfield: Nose Press to Fakie

Nice rail slide, but what was that girl doing down in the snow anyway?

Teaser Tour of the New East End Waterfront

Starting here in Boothby Square and swooping down to Commercial Street in the Old Port area, we head east toward Munjoy Hill for a teaser tour of the old blending with the newness in progress on the Eastern Waterfront.

Swim with Wyland's whales along Maine State Pier and then continue into the construction of the new cruise ship terminal and surrounds.

Congress Street East End Rite-Aid

Quick! You're in Portland, Maine. You just finished up a 10-hour day sanding "shuh-eat-rock". Where can you find the cheapest cold beer in town? And at the same time grab some new dust masks, tape, face wipes, GOJO, safety glasses, duct tape and maybe some spackling? There you are: the Congress Street East Rite-Aid! (Not that there's anything wrong with the other on the West End of Cong-o...)

...and don't forget to pick up the ADD meds at the pharmacy out back while your there! Hope you called in the 'script. You spaced it, didn't you!

Presumpscot River rapids lovin' life

After the removal of Smelt Hill Dam, the native history-rich Presumpscot regains a piece of its lost youth marking the first stage in its ability to once again accommodate spawning Atlantic salmon struggling to reach Sebago Lake another 25 miles upstream along which several other atrocities of nature await them - though these will be eventually removed themselves, by man or nature, whoever comes first...

Lincolnville Chestnut Grove "on borrowed time"

Welles Thurber concedes that blight will overcome the 20-year-old grove. The trees' descendants may move on, yet they themselves may never live to maturity. This seems to be a standard modern-day phenomenon according to people like
Charles Little, author of "The Dying of the Trees"

Entertainment: "Spidey in the Snow"

Winters in Maine can be so exciting!

"A Day In The Snow": Sunday River by axoule

Great feel and scenery from the mountain in Bethel, Maine.

Leaving Portland on the Downeaster

The wooden walkway along the bridge is noteworthy.

The Kotzschmar Organ in Portland Maine

The organ that keeps Portland organized.

More religious controversy to distract from the issues.

Maine-brewed organic beer is hip in Manhattan.

Casco Bay Sea Smoke

See smoke: sea smoke seen from a scene on the Eastern Promenade.

Urban Snowboarding: Boardslide Switch Out on Cooler

Benji Greenfield with some urban hip-hop on a snowcone from what looks like near the East End in Portland, Maine.