Steve Winter

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so young, so very very much to learn      1963

Steve in his prime:  captain of the university Karate Team.   ~ 1970
Here on a make believe trip to Tahiti (while remaining in his apartment in NYC) ...
this mode of travel was necessitated by being an impoverished graduate student.
On the side I was a cabbie in the city and got a PhD in Theoretical Physics.

This ex-mail truck was my vehicle which I used on wilderness adventure trips such as this canoe trip in Northern Maine.
It had a cast iron pot belly stove in the back with a chimney out the roof.
The canoe riders are fellow adventurers.    ~1971

Some later trips were more adventuresome such as this backcountry Telemark ski trip to the Canadian Rockies.  ~1993
My love of Mother Nature and outdoor adventures was the reason for major life choices.
Meanwhile I worked for a Navy think tank (US) with some travel around the world (including living a year in Japan) ... but managed to spend most of my life in Maine.
I was a prof at the University of Maine for five years until I got tired of the commute and admin (but not the students).

Couch Potatoes:  Steve with Best Pal ... Sam (looking somewhat dubious).   Christmas 2007

The skiing was tough but ... EXHILARATING  ! !  
Ridge on Denali in Alaska   2011
Did I ski it ... heck no!  but I did fly by ...I would only try to ski it if  I was being sent to a nursing home.

Steve ... way ... way ... past his prime.    2011
In my retired (unemployed) life I have been reduced to delivering excess vegetables from the raised beds to my neighbors.  
From the picture you might correctly conclude that I do not have a tailor or a manservant to dress me ...
But I give my more conventional neighbors something to smile ... or wonder ... about.
To keep myself overly busy I have been building a cottage on an island ... going slower each year ... hope I finish.

Partial Frame of Island Cottage I am building ... seemingly endlessly.   2005
Click HERE to see the frame going up.  I did most of the building ... it is a pretty place to work.

Steve with Queen Paula whom he has happily attended as Consort for many years.      2010

Two Umbrellas, one dock , lots of granite, the Atlantic Ocean, and some islands 
(the front yard -- don't have to mow much)

Home Sweet Home -- the Maine hideout 
(come visit)

Island Cottage 2013   [click here for island views]

Supplement:  My Greatest Achievements ... well some of them

My Favorite Sunrises:

Dawn Alpenglow on Mount Katahdin in Northern Maine        February  -20 degrees F

Sunrise from island in Casco Bay, Maine

My Favorite Sunsets:

Buffalo on the golden road to heaven (or is it an elephant?)

White Mountains on Fire

The full picture that the above are portions of.
Taken from an island in Casco Bay, Maine

The Universe Looking at Night Time Earth
Did you turn your lights out ?

That's All Folks ...