Eastbound: Our 2006 Adventure

DAY 23-24-25: AWAY FROM IT ALL!

I did take pictures... and we weren't completely out of touch with civilization, but apparently posting became difficult, as I see I've fallen behind. Here, I hope, is a quick catch-up for Thursday-Friday-Saturday.

On Thursday Linda and I drove from Portland to Rockland, Maine, to visit with one of my undergrad professors, Ken Crowell, and his wife Marnie, who met us in Rockland but live even further north, on Deer Isle. I hesitate to confess that I didn't even get to see the rocky coast of Maine, and at the time didn't even notice that omission. We had a wonderful chat with them, and received some great ideas for my Sears project. Ken once took a course from Sears at Yale.

Then we drove to the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, a work in progress. And THEN I remembered the camera, so I do have some pictures of that (the Crowells escaped photographic record). Here's the not-yet-open main building. Linda and her husband Orrin are involved in helping the Gardens get established. It's a big project and well underway. We walked through the woods, saw some great lichens, and a leopard frog, and enjoyed the yard of fairy houses and new sculpture installation in progress.

Friday morning we drove to the Shanes' cabin on Keyes Pond, about an hour north of Portland. After a refreshing swim (during which we even saw a water snake swim past us), we lolled in the shade and read books for a few hours. Imagine! Then another swim, dinner, and a sunset canoe ride on the lake, accompanied by the calling of loons... In all, a wonderful day and evening!

To be continued...

posted by SLW @ 8:23 AM