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Colby Art Museum is Maine’s largest art museum (click here for their website). They have a good collection of Whistler etchings, and watercolors by John Marin. 11996
We visited three falls in one day in middle Maine. We are grateful to our hostess who knew where to go! The first was in a woods close to Farmington, Maine;
The same day we saw this moose in the wild we saw a bald eagle flying low along a river. We felt blessed from on high…
After a morning stop at a closing Thrift Store, we headed to the beautiful Wilson Lake in Wilton, Maine.
Long Lake is lovely, and the brisk, misty morning starts early. (See my photos at dawn near the bottom of this post.) The food and the fellowship is great. My class meets in the art studio which is so close to the lake, the water almost laps against the porch supports. We face late afternoon … Read more
I go back to Maine today for my fourth time at Creative Arts Camp. I will be without internet until late next Sunday or early Monday, so if you receive my blog posts by email, you’ll receive them bunched up again then, and after that I’ll revert to my daily routine! The first time at … Read more
This is the fourth year in a row I have done this same 18 mile bike ride of the carriage roads in Acadia National Park, and the last three years my youngest daughter has done it with me. These carriage roads were built at great expense by John D. Rockefeller who originally owned the Acadia … Read more
Today we visited the eastern shoreline of Acadia National Park’s main island at Sand Beach and near Thunder Hole. These two spots, while very near each other, couldn’t be more different. One is sandy and calm, and the other rocky and crashing. I was particularly inspired by the later today, and stayed in one place … Read more
My daughter and I made our annual trek to the Schoodic Peninsula which is another separate region of Acadia National Park, about an hour north of the main part of the park. I copied the explanatory sign for you to see in this post (as only a homeschooling mother might do) to explain the interesting … Read more
We had an awesome day on our trip to Isle Au Haut, which is a southern remote island of Acadia National Park. We had never done this before and it entailed getting there via the “mail boat” to Duck Harbor, which leaves from Stonington, on Deer Isle, Maine, in the morning, and returning on it … Read more
I awoke to dense Labor Day fog, and pondered it in depth on the dock. The last time we had fog this dense here was four years ago, also on Labor Day. Unlike today, the tide was in then and we had rented kayaks so I went off kayaking in the fog. It was an … Read more
One of the pleasures of our time here in Maine is my daughter and I oil paint on the dock. (We usually try to do this early in the week to allow for drying time, but we still return with wet ones in the car’s rear window.) This is the painting I did today and … Read more
It is a nine hour trip to the cabin and once unpacked our tradition has become to rush off to Castine, Maine for a legendary lobster roll (see photo!) followed by a sunset walk on a nearby beach, reveling in the fact that we are here once again.
I leave early in the morning with my youngest daughter for a week at this cabin in Maine on the Penobscot Bay. I’ll be blogging daily but will have to take my computer into the local library to occasionally upload, so your blog email blasts will be a bit bunched up and sporadic next week. … Read more
This is the painting I started in my pastel class. It is the largest pastel I’ve ever done. It has been sitting on my mantel for over a month awaiting completion! I had a great time finishing it. This was done from a photo of mine taken on the Schoodic Peninsula in Acadia National Park, … Read more