Category: Landscape

Trip to Canada, and back

A friend and I went east to Canada for a fibre festival (spelled the Canadian way). First stop was in downeast Maine, where we got out of the car to admire the scarlet reds...

Sewall’s Orchard

On Sunday we managed to fit in an outing to Lincolnville. We both have a lot going on, Sam with his commissioner duties and me with all my extracurricular activities. But a fall outing...

Leaves and rocks

I took a walk at camp last week after a rare rainstorm. The fall colors were beautiful. Later I used an app called “Coolors” to generate some palettes from the photos:

Jordan Pond Path

Another weekday walk in Acadia National Park. Another walk along a path that’s very crowded in the summer. At this time of year it was easy to park near Jordan Pond House and we...

Amazing sights / sites

We heard about the old Tannery site and the proposed rezoning of that area to industrial at the Planning Board meeting. Sam had toured the site with the selectboard not long ago, but I...

Blustery

It’s a blustery spring day. The rhubarb is up. The spring rituals have started: planting peas, first workday at the community garden, starting tomato seeds. The rhubarb looks so red and wrinkly. The leaves...

Peaks and views

We hiked in Acadia last week near Southwest Harbor. Two peaks were summited (small ones)! There was some ice on the trail, but we could pick our way around it. First peak – Flying...