It’s a place where flannel sheets served all summer.
Yeah, while everywhere else was sweltering.
From Sunrise County in the Universe
It’s a place where flannel sheets served all summer.
Yeah, while everywhere else was sweltering.
It’s not all water around here, though the road to the right leads to two lakes.
Sometimes Downeast Maine reminds me of the Far West. This is one of them.
His sympathy was much appreciated while I worked with one around the garden.
So here’s why I hate using a weed whacker.
Would herbicides, which we don’t use, do the job better? (Satan, get thee behind me.)
Not since remarrying 23 years ago, curiously, even though we have taken some delightful extended weekends here in New England but not yet beyond.
The closest I’ve come to solo is the week of the annual sessions of New England Yearly Meeting of Friends, held on college campuses in early August. But there, the emphasis has been on doing Quaker business and spiritual renewal together.
Maybe that’s one reason I’m so excited by my upcoming windjammer adventure, whatever the weather.
Better yet, it’s following on one of our family weekends away, the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Even if I expect to be spending part of that manning the Quaker booth there.
And better yet, I’ll be with a dear friend of my retirement years – somebody who grew up on the waters, unlike me.
So what’s your idea of a “vacation” Even in a shoulder season, where we are now?
Autumn is already in the air.
We’ve driven past the site countless times without noticing the motto on the now abandoned motel and restaurant. Oh, shucks.
Here’s the stone dam behind it, its pond long drained, built for the famed iron works in Pembroke in 1832. Here it’s seen from away from the U.S. 1 highway.
Nothing like a decaying hurricane somewhere out at sea to roil the water. This one was rough enough to cancel ferry service to neighboring Monhegan Island for days.
Tomatoes, red pepper, goat cheese, and sunflower seeds with a homemade vinaigrette