Set 1 of My All Time Favorite Photographs
Bob Jensen at Trinity University 

 

Among the thousands of photographs that I've taken over the years I have some all time favorites.
This is Set 1 of my all time favorites. They're not in rank order.
In warm weather gliders soar up and down between our cottage and the Kinsman range of the White Mountains.
The two pictures below were taken from my desk with the camera zoomed.
The gliders go back and forth until they eventually land on the grass field of the Franconia Airport.
I'm too chicken to go up in either the tow plane or the gliders

Cannon Mountain is the back drop from this shot (with my camera zoomed)

This is a shot of the Sunset Hill House Hotel just down the road from our cottage

The Sunset Hill House no longer has this Arab mare.
She sometimes broke out and came up the way to eat in our lawn.
I miss her

Our cottage in the 1800s was the golf course club house on a large resort
This "Pavilion" club house later became the tennis court pavilion in the 1900s
It was later moved across a tennis court to where it sits today in place of a big hotel that was torn down in 1973
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/CottageHistory/Hotel/Brochure/Brochure1900.htm   

This is our cottage with the front porch glassed in and insulated for our winter seasons

Sometimes couples request to be married in our front lawn against the backdrop of the White Mountain ranges
I don't even know this couple from Boston, but they did ask for permission to be married in our front lawn
The man marrying them is a school teacher up here who also belongs to our church

Moose, on the other hand, don't even ask our permission to be married on our front lawn
And they poke around our yard sales without buying anything
Nothing seems to fit

 

Although we bought this cottage, an outdoor studio, and the old resort powerhouse (now my barn) in 2003,
I did not retire from Trinity University until 2006. This is Erika telling secrets about me at my retirement reception party.
http://www.cs.trinity.edu/~rjensen/PictureHistory/2006RetirementParty/

Here are some favorite pictures taken from my front desk facing eastward toward the White Mountains

This is a shot to the left of my desk. The town of Littleton is about 10 miles north.

This is Cannon Mountain followed by the Three Graces (fondly known as Cannon Balls)
The mountains on the right are South Kinsman followed by North Kinsman

This is part of the huge wild cranberry bush in front of my desk
The birds tend to leave these cranberries on the bush until early spring
Maybe they prefer that the berries ferment a bit

 

This is the Iris Farm down the road.
I'm proud of this shot and think it would make a good picture puzzle
The clouds to the right are hanging over Franconia Notch between Lafayette and Cannon Mountains

This is Franconia Notch as seen higher up on the shore of Echo Lake

Water from Echo Lake is pumped up to snow making canons on the ski trails of Cannon Mountain
Below you can see the plumes of snow from snow canons on one of Cannon's 60 trails

 

These are wild roses in front of our cottage

This Erika standing in our wildflower field

A yellow  butterfly on orange azaleas out back

Our hometown hero in recent years is superstar Olympic skier and World Cup Champion Bode Miller
Bode taught himself to ski on Cannon Mountain where his mother was a bookkeeper
Bode says if you can ski Cannon you can ski any mountain in the world
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2008/tidbits080331.htm

I'm an unabashed dirty old man

Cannon's  competition comes from various nearby ski resorts, including Mt. Washington at Bretton Woods

Mt. Washington as seen from my desk (zoomed)
This summer son Marshall and I took the Cog Railroad to the top of Mt. Washington
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Tidbits/CogRailroad/History1/CogRailroadHistory.htm

This is a wild cherry tree south of the cottage

Wild turkeys devour its cherries

 

This is St. Mathews Chapel (Episcopal) about a half mile from our cottage
It claims to be the most photographed church in New England
It's only open for two months in the summer season

I always keep it possible for Mary Hicks to deliver our mail after she milks her cows

What dummy would shovel the walk to a blocked set of stairs?

Happy New Year

 

 

Foliage Favorites --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/Foliage/FoliageFavorites.htm 
Autumn --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2008/tidbits080925.htm
Also see   http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2009/tidbits090924.htm
Also see   http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/tidbits/2009/tidbits091005.htm

 

More of Bob Jensen's Pictures and Stories
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/Pictures.htm

 

Blogs of White Mountain Hikers (many great photographs) ---
http://www.blogger.com/profile/02242409292439585691

Especially note the archive of John Compton's blogs at the bottom of the page at
http://1happyhiker.blogspot.com/

White Mountain News --- http://www.whitemtnews.com/

 

On May 14, 2006 I retired from Trinity University after a long and wonderful career as an accounting professor in four universities. I was generously granted "Emeritus" status by the Trustees of Trinity University. My wife and I now live in a cottage in the White Mountains of New Hampshire ---
http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/NHcottage/NHcottage.htm

Bob Jensen's Blogs --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/JensenBlogs.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called New Bookmarks --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/bookurl.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Tidbits --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/TidbitsDirectory.htm
Current and past editions of my newsletter called Fraud Updates --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/FraudUpdates.htm
Bob Jensen's past presentations and lectures --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/resume.htm#Presentations   

Our address is 190 Sunset Hill Road, Sugar Hill, New Hampshire
Our cottage was known as the Brayton Cottage in the early 1900s
Sunset Hill is a ridge overlooking with New Hampshire's White Mountains to the East
and Vermont's Green Mountains to the West

 

 

Bob Jensen's Threads --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/threads.htm

Bob Jensen's Home Page --- http://www.trinity.edu/rjensen/