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/