Time to get caught up on what all I’ve been doing the past month… first, I came home!
Flying in to mid-coast Maine at sunset....sigh....those rays of sun I call angel escalators. When I was 4, we returned to the US from living in Argentina. I had never seen escalators before and was entranced! I was also bundled off to Sunday School where they wanted us to NAP (not!). I wondered how the angels got from heaven to earth, and decided that sunbeams must really be angel escalators, so that's what they've been ever since, and now my kids know about them, too.
The best part of coming home to Maine is, of course, the people and the critters starting with my husband, sons, pug and cats! But coming home to Maine is pretty amazing. I flew in from teaching at Quilt Nebraska on July 31 to this…how can anyone NOT want to live and be here?
I love these aerial shots, this one taken over the wing of the prop Cape Air plane (about 9 seats I think). This is the peninsula just south of Owl's Head which is just south of Rockland. The airport designation is RKD, but it is really in Owl's Head and is 35 minutes from home.
Then the sun began to set…OH MY!
And the clouds…oh my oh my…
And a close-up
And touchdown…
And on the ground...see the windsock in the distance... I think the blob in the upper right is part of the plane/tail.
THIS is why you always want to schlep a camera with you….. was heading from Hope to Camden to pick up the teenager at his girlfriend’s. This is what I saw as I went down the driveway:
And this slightly zoomed view:
Then, as I went down the last hill on Route 105 into Camden, the most enormous moon I’ve ever seen (even larger than that huge one a month or two ago) loomed up over a rooftop. I promptly called the teen and said I would be a couple minutes late, I needed to drive down to the harbor and take some pics….here’s the best of the bunch:
And going back UP the driveway at home, this breathtaking moon and clouds! Be still my beating heart! How did I get to be so lucky as to live here?
Just pictures today, to show that spring really IS coming to Maine, despite the fact that snow is on the ground on April 13 (but melting!!!!).
Near the "elbow" in the driveway are six large shrubs of pussy willows. Must cut some to bring in to the house! Daddy always had a vase of pussy willows (dried) in a vase on the old phonograph
Well, I actually took the photo in late March, but I loved the look through the car window and rain….
Have been really busy with painting the studio floor (which required soaking and scraping up lousy old paint left by the previous owners so the new paint stands a chance of sticking), Eli’s wrestling, Joshua stuff, more moving in stuff, paying bills and all the general nonsense….have many many many things to blog about…just need time…. anyone have any to spare?
PS—the photo is of The Market Basket entryway. The Market Basket is a somewhat gourmet-ish deli / store / place at the intersection of Route 1 (the Old Atlantic Coast Highway) and Route 90 (which heads due West to Augusta, the state capitol, a town of under 20,000 souls one hour or so to the west). They have WONDERFUL tuna salad, good local and imported foodstuffs, and good breads and desserts.