Photos of Maine (Old Town, Madawaska, Van Buren: nearby, kayaking, common)

[Maine Writer]

Good idea. I'll take a break and get another cup of coffee.

Still amazed at the difference. I definitely like the current you more. Not that your former appearance was bad, it certainly wasn't, but you look like a down home country boy now.

[mollysmiles]

7th that's sad to hear about the moose. It's good though that you and others realized what was happening and stepped in before something worse happened.


Forest, if I look closely at the third picture where you have that bit of a smile, I can see the similarities around the eyes from your current pictures-but I can't get from there to here with the others at all!

[Elcarim]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

I was going through my desk and I found these ID cards.

My passport, my Navy Police ID, and my Italian Policia port de' arms [license to carry firearms in Italy]

The other day KAF was expressing great surprise at how I looked before I retired. So I thought that I would share with you wonderful folks.

Hey, it's Forest.............nekkid!!!! I don't see it, except the eyes! The eyes have it!! And I agree, I like the mountain man best!

[msina]

You do look very differant with your fur but, I have to agree that your twinkling eyes are the same. Reminds me of George Clooney with the fake beard in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou". Big transformation. You look good in a beard, not everyone can pull it off.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by mollysmiles

Forest, if I look closely at the third picture where you have that bit of a smile, I can see the similarities around the eyes from your current pictures-but I can't get from there to here with the others at all!

The passport was made in the US consulate in Naples, I had to pull off my uniform shirt to slip on a different shirt that had been in the back of a patrol car for weeks, so my passport would look 'civilian'. The DOD had issued me a 'no-fee' black passport that on the second page explains that it was issued for free to DOD personnel. Well who wants to travel in civilian clothes with a passport that says US military on it? So I had to run down there one day to get a tourist looking passport made. Try as hard as I could, I could just never stop looking like professional career military. That look takes a lot of hair to cover.

The Port de' Armes was done in an Italian Policia office, Italians are big time sexists. Females can work Law Enforcement but they must be huge breasted and flirt a lot. It was difficult to avoid blushing and smiling.

[Submariner]

Elcarim;
Msina;

Thank you.

[msina]

You're quite welcome sir

[dramamama6685]

Wow what a difference! I can't seem to resolve in my mind that this is the same man as our Forest!

[AliceT]

Originally Posted by Maine Writer

Cute furbabies Alice. I especially like the lighter colored fluff ball. Is the pooch under the rocker a basset?

Thank you. The lighter colored fluff ball is a standard poodle - was just a couple months old at the time. He hasn't changed much. The one under the rocker was a lemon & white basset pup.

[txmom]

This is one of my favorite pictures of the Penobscot River. I took it last October at Riverfront Park in downtown Old Town. The bench looks like a great place to do some thinking.