Hospital on the Hill

Maine Medical Center as viewed from the University of Southern Maine. Deering Oaks Park is in the foreground. 

Parkside Spires

A view of spires atop the beautiful Sacred Heart / St. Dominic Church on Mellen Street. 

Reader Photos: May 2013

Here are a few top-notch photos taken by people other than myself. Want to share some of your photos here with my 5,000 unique monthly visitors? Upload them to the Portland Daily Photo Flickr Group, the Facebook Group, or email them over to me. Once a month I usually share one photo per person and link back to their Flickr profile or other site of their choosing.

Portland, Maine by JBattis. 

Grand Trunk Railway Steamship Offices / India Street Terminal (1903) – corner detail by Don Shall. 

Portland, Maine from the Bug Light Park by Zach Beane. 

Commercial Street by Scott Anderson. 

Alleyway behind David's Restaurant by Nancy Ciocca. 

Portland Sky by Paul Noble. 

Flying Fish by Steve Stracqualursi. 

Waves on Peaks Island by Henry Leiter.  Check out his photography website, HenryFoto.com. 

Bug Light Lighthouse by Mike Davis. 

Brick Wall

Just an alleyway off of Congress Street:

Sunday Snapshots: May 19. 2013

Some recent cellphone photos (I consider them to be "snapshots") from my Instagram account:

Bike to Work Day, Stroudwater Village 

Spring on Deering Street

Back Cove and Skyline

Fiddle Heads at Rosemont Market on Munjoy Hill

Three Sons Fishing

Building Boom: May 2013

Here are some updates to my last "Building Boom" post from February.

The Bay House condos continue to rise over Middle Street:

The Hyatt Place Portland, seen here from Fore Street, rises (I'm digging the reduced traffic lanes):

Nearby we have the future Courtyard by Marriott on Commercial Street:

It looks like phase one of the Civic Center renovations, the part involving the Free Street entrance are complete. 

Now onto phase two, which involves the Free Street and Center Street sides.

The Danforth on High condos are moving right along.

And the Pearl Place Phase II development in Bayside is complete:

Back to the Wall

A man and his phone on Exchange Street.

Lower Hay Building

The H.H. Hay building at the corner of Monument Way and Free Street. The name comes from the business that used to operated out of the building, named H.H. Hay Apothecary. This is the "lower" Hay building, the other being at the top of Free Street. 

Yellow Things

A classic-looking yellow bicycle parked near a yellow door on Park Street. This was a tough one to capture due to the cars parked along the street and the distance between the bicycle and the yellow door that caught my eye. 

Flashback: May 2012

Time for a step back in time to May 2012. You can check all of my photos from a year ago here. 

Supermoon over Back Cove.

Perfect Graffiti. 

Sunrise over Back Cove. 

Longfellow Square Painter. 

Prides Corner Drive-in. 

Corner of Woodford's

The backside of Woodford's Corner. At left is the Odd Fellows Block at 649 Forest Avenue. 

Doors on Deering Street

A charming brick building on Deering Street, in Portland's Parkside neighborhood.

Spring on Milk Street

A view of the statue (of dolphins, I think) in front of the Portland Regency Hotel & Spa on Milk Street.

Shipping & Receiving

These somewhat colorful cargo containers at the Port of Portland's International Marine Terminal on Commercial Street were just waiting to be photographed:

Pink Tulips

These flowers in Portland's Lincoln Park are planted every year as part of a fundraiser for the Maine Cancer Foundation:

Check out the project's website for more info and how to get involved:

Deering Oaks Bridge, Spring

The lovely stone bridge in Deering Oaks Park on a spring day. Just out of frame to the right of the photo was the Saturday Portland Farmers Market. 

Out in the Streets

Photographs with people in them tend to be more interesting and popular than my usual assortment of photos of inanimate objects, so it's nice to see more people out downtown due to the warmer weather. 

Congress Street Sidewalk

Exchange Street Sidewalk

Down on the Corner

The back side of the John Ford statue, overlooking Gorham's Corner.