


Have I mentioned I love Japanese cuisine? This is at the ramen soup restaurant in Bangor.
You never know what we'll churn up in cleaning a stall



Have I mentioned I love Japanese cuisine? This is at the ramen soup restaurant in Bangor.


As fresh and sweetly tender as it gets.

This one’s with basil.

Even the croutons were homemade. Not so, the cheese or sunflower seeds.


Dick in fine weather on a trail behind his farm.

Cranberries are often grown in enclosures like this, which are then flooded. The berries then float for harvest.

One bed stands above the other.

This is Mingo’s in Calais, not the only one in eastern Maine.


Here’s how they look much of the rest of the year around here. And there are a lot of them who surprisingly disappear this time of the year.

Yeah, all sunsets are in the west, but this looks like something out of a cowboy movie finale. Even if it’s in Downeast Maine.




At the top of Penobscot Bay, this is the principal welcome to Downeast and Acadia. Or for those of us going the other direction, to the rest of America.
You can even go to the top, the equivalent of 40 floors, for a spectacular panorama.